Reflection+6

Summary As a whole, we can classify these last four chapters under one single heading: teaching. All of these chapters, whether its very visible or not are all related very similarly to teaching as a whole. The following chapters, 9, 15, 16, and 18, all talk about different styles of teaching, or the effects of teaching in a school, the district, state wide, and nationally. For example, in chapter 15 in the realm of art education, they believe that art education will become another social studies, as well as the approach of a new type of education, visual culture, can change the world of art education as a whole (Hurwitz 285). When it comes to the breaking down of education and the effects it has on the world, it is important to understand the culture, as well as the developing world of art as well. When it comes to teaching these however, having the right approach is all the more important as well. There are three types of approaches, the Directive, a way to transmit skills, technology, and processes; Socratic, a method of asking questions for answers, using ideas, theories, interpretations, and analysis for understanding; and Discovery, a means of using open ended, speculative, problem solving skills to completing the idea, approaches (Hurwitz 298). With the education comes the curriculum, which is laid out before the lesson plans, and so forth are. Without the curriculum, there wouldn’t be any type of understanding, and reason for educating. Class Connections The “spark”. What is the “spark” in your life? What is it that keeps us going? Understanding this, may help with some of the ways in which we teach as well as understanding the ways in which your students learn, live, love, etc. These may seem personal, but they all effect education. It’s the idea of self expression, self-confidence, and self respect, all of which if not present in the creation of artwork, lack the creativity, idea generation, and technical skills. As we go through our classes as well, we are affected by a curriculum that has been set down before us to follow by the state as well as the education department. From here, we are able to break down what we should be learning into lessons, and from there, knowledge.

Realizations The light just light up. It’s all connected to my future. My future will first depend on the curriculum that is set forth from a school. From there I must come up with the plans, and then the way in which Ill teach it. The ways in which they teach us to teach may seem what we feel as out dated, however, they skills that are taught are the most important, no matter the style taught, etc. As long as it is understood by all that is all that matter, until then, we will keep redoing it. This is me, my future, and career.