WHAT: I really enjoyed the activity that we did in class this week. I thought it was a great way to teach children the elements and principles of visual arts. I think that this would be a great activity to do in my classroom because not only are the children doing hands on activities with the art but they are also learning the definitions about them. I think the text had some great things to learn about visual art. My favorite things were how it explained what visual art did for the children emotionally and for their self-esteem.
SO WHAT: Every week I learn more and more how important for me, as a teacher, it is to integrate art into the classroom. I have read so many positive outcomes that visual arts can have on children in the text. I think that this class is so important for me because now hopefully, I can feel comfortable enough to have a lot of art projects/lessons in my classroom. Because I know before I did not feel comfortable doing art at all. Thinking back to my school years I wish that we would have been offered more visual arts, especially reading all the positive outcomes that it doesn have for children. I think that visual arts lets children show their creative side, which is extremely important!
NOW WHAT: I think that by completing and passing this course I will feel so much more comfortable and more prepared to have visual arts in my classroom. I guess even before even just these two weeks of class I never realized how important integrating arts into my classroom really would be. The text offers so many ideas on how to promote and integrate visual arts, as a teacher, some of these ideas will be very helpful for me to use in my lesson plans. I think as a teacher it is very important to realize that arts can be used for more subjects then just strictly art projects. It can be integrated into every subject in the classrom, and I will definitely have to keep that in mind when I am lesson planning in the future!
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