Teaching Philosophy For Art Education For Contemporary Art Application Myleka Bevans - White Brigham Young University
I find myself unwilling to commit to an art philosophy that is written in stone as I feel I will grow and change and hopefully get better every year. The more experience I obtain will lead me to know more concretely who I am as a teacher, but there are somethings I do know for sure and that is that I want art to be a subject that my students look forward to.I hope within the next year to have obtained a job teaching A.P Art in a High School. I hope to have my masters within the next five years and then go on to get a PHD in Art Education. I wanted to become an art teacher because I had such a positive experience in High School with art. Even though I proceeded to do different things with my life I never forgot art and always thought I’d made the wrong choice of career. I returned to school with the desire to become an art teacher and have worked very hard to obtain my dream. I really want to bring the experience I had in art to all my students so that they can use art to better their own lives. I want to create a culture within the school that I work in that all students want to take art.“We must work together, We can in time articulate a new language of cultural value that will help all of us to understand better the essential contribution that the arts make in our lives.” I find myself unwilling to commit to an art philosophy that is written in stone as I feel I will grow and change and hopefully get better every year. The more experience I obtain will lead me to know more concretely who I am as a teacher, but there are somethings I do know for sure and that is that I want art to be a subject that my students look forward to.I hope within the next year to have obtained a job teaching A.P Art in a High School. I hope to have my masters within the next five years and then go on to get a PHD in Art Education. I wanted to become an art teacher because I had such a positive experience in High School with art. Even though I proceeded to do different things with my life I never forgot art and always thought I’d made the wrong choice of career. I returned to school with the desire to become an art teacher and have worked very hard to obtain my dream. I really want to bring the experience I had in art to all my students so that they can use art to better their own lives. I want to create a culture within the school that I work in that all students want to take art.“We must work together, We can in time articulate a new language of cultural value that will help all of us to understand better the essential contribution that the arts make in our lives.” ,Hickman. I want my students to be immersed in a culture of art where they can see the benefits it can bring to their lives.I know that within my class I want students to be able to experiment and make mistakes and never be afraid that it will negatively effect their GPA. I have created assessments to make this idea possible. I want all of my students to experience Contemporary Art with field trips to current artist studios or locations around the United States where they can see people making a living in art. I would like to have visiting artists monthly. I want all my student to know that people are currently making art, making a living and it’s a field of study that is very much alive. I want my students to be able to leave my classroom go to college and know that artist aren’t all dead in museums and art is not limited to paintings on walls. I want to run my classroom as a collective. “You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish” (Robinson).I want students to bring their unique ideas and run with them. I want them to build their portfolios with what they are passionate about. I want them to bring what they are feeling attracted to and I will just help them with tools they might need to become the best they can be. I want them to work within the State and A.P standard and will just be there to help them get there. I want all my students to know I have an open door policy to talk about their ideas. I do plan on having weekly ‘Masterclasses’ where students learn necessary technical skillsbecause those are the building blocks for art.My students will participate in weekly critiques where we review their work according to the A.P Test rubric or other state standards and see what they need to improve on and what skills they would like to learn to accomplish to take their art where it needs to go. I want all of my students to create weekly and be exposed to as many different ways of creating art as possible so that they don’t pigeonhole themselves. Art in Utah has gradually been marginalized within our current school system. Art is no longer compulsory in education and there has also been a cut-bak in time allocated for arts infavor of ‘core’ subjects in elementary art is not taught at all unless the teacher chooses to include art lessons. “Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status" (Richards). Programs such as STEM are receiving more funds and time in classrooms. Art advocates are fighting for funding and programs and in a way have helped arts in schools flourish with programs such as the Beverly Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program, while also damaging art by succoring funding outside of the districts budgets. Why should districts in Utah fund art if they don’t have to. I want to show through my classes and the work my students produce that Art is important and advocate art to be incorporated into the STEM program so that it becomes the STEAM program. I want my students to be immersed in a culture of art where they can see the benefits it can bring to their lives.I know that within my class I want students to be able to experiment and make mistakes and never be afraid that it will negatively effect their GPA. I have created assessments to make this idea possible. I want all of my students to experience Contemporary Art with field trips to current artist studios or locations around the United States where they can see people making a living in art. I would like to have visiting artists monthly. I want all my student to know that people are currently making art, making a living and it’s a field of study that is very much alive. I want my students to be able to leave my classroom go to college and know that artist aren’t all dead in museums and art is not limited to paintings on walls. I want to run my classroom as a collective. “You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish” (Robinson).I want students to bring their unique ideas and run with them. I want them to build their portfolios with what they are passionate about. I want them to bring what they are feeling attracted to and I will just help them with tools they might need to become the best they can be. I want them to work within the State and A.P standard and will just be there to help them get there. I want all my students to know I have an open door policy to talk about their ideas. I do plan on having weekly ‘Masterclasses’ where students learn necessary technical skillsbecause those are the building blocks for art.My students will participate in weekly critiques where we review their work according to the A.P Test rubric or other state standards and see what they need to improve on and what skills they would like to learn to accomplish to take their art where it needs to go. I want all of my students to create weekly and be exposed to as many different ways of creating art as possible so that they don’t pigeonhole themselves. Art in Utah has gradually been marginalized within our current school system. Art is no longer compulsory in education and there has also been a cut-bak in time allocated for arts infavor of ‘core’ subjects in elementary art is not taught at all unless the teacher chooses to include art lessons. “Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.” (Richards) Programs such as STEM are receiving more funds and time in classrooms. Art advocates are fighting for funding and programs and in a way have helped arts in schools flourish with programs such as the Beverly Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program, while also damaging art by succoring funding outside of the districts budgets. Why should districts in Utah fund art if they don’t have to. I want to show through my classes and the work my students produce that Art is important and advocate art to be incorporated into the STEM program so that it becomes the STEAM program.