My name is Noah Shaffer, I'm a senior in art education at Fairmont State University. I plan on teaching grades K-12, and I hope that students will learn to enjoy and appreciate art no matter what they decide to do after graduation. I think for earlier grade levels, students should participate in more gestural, abstract, or expressive arts with limited art history discussions (ie. matching games- matching famous artists to their worketc.), simply because young children rarely grasp concepts such as three- dimensionality, space, overlapping, etc. at least not until the end of third to the beginning of fourth grade. For these reasons, I think it is best to stick to visual examples that they can easily comprehend, such as color, shape, and pattern. These early classes would be graded mostly on effort rather than craftsmanship.
Mid level students will work primarily with three- dimensional projects such as pottery and/or various sculpture media but will also leran about perspective drawing and conveying space. They will also develop their writing skills as they would have to research interesting historical or contemporary artists such as Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, or Jenny Saville. The grading criteria for the mid-level students would be a split three ways a third for craftsmanship, effort, and research assignments.
High School age students will not have a specific area of concentration, rather they will learn and create works of various media and styles such as watercolor, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, painting, abstract, realism, cubism, etc. They will be expected to identify significantly different examples of work such as Cubism or Neo- Classical and so on. These students will also be expected to explore historical movements and important artistic figures from the past. Craftsmanship will be a much more important factor for these students than students in earlier grade levels as well.
So, basically that's how I think I would run my classroom.
Love all,
Shanosha
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