Looking back on the handful of times that I've taught, I feel like I have a good basis to compare them to how things are going today along with how art is essential for societal development.
Just as we are learning more about the hands-on field training of the classrooms at Polaris, it is becoming painfully obvious on just how difficult it is to teach art let alone teaching on its own. Compared to my time in Conrad Ball and with the education class on campus, the kindergarten class is by far the most difficult to wrap my head around. Here we are doing our best to teach art to these young students when in reality we need to build the entire foundation for which they'll use to understand and create art. The middle schoolers and other students already had this foundation, so we didn't need to worry about their foundation because they had it. We're at the core of making sure these students have a grasp on what is art and the etiquette that follows. That can tie in with how art is essential for societal development. Aside from creative writing or composing music, art is another way people develop a mental fluidity. I say this because math may enhance a mental perspective just as art can, but it has guidelines, algorithms, and rules to follow in order to for things to work out properly. It is closed to expansion unless someone has chosen to pursue a route of mathematic exploration. Art is the same with guidelines, algorithms, and rules, but it is ultimately open for change in any of those positions. Drawing in perspective asks that we follow guidelines but then painting asks that we don't follow any guidelines at all; both are aspects of art but can be changed or even combined. Music notes can be arranged in any order and still produce music. Creative writing can be reworded or just become a new creation in its entirety. When something allows us to move freely, we are able to develop new ways of thinking that don't rely on rigidity or algorithms to generate new ideas or to explore. All we have to do is start and we're there. Then once we move onto the next year or the next chapter, the previous ideas can be archived, cataloged, or set on the side while we fill the next chapter. They're all there but usually only one is ever in focus.
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Joel SchreinerBorn on December 17th, 1996, Joel Schreiner entered the Electronic Art program at CSU right out of High School. From there he decided to set his eyes on becoming an educator alongside an illustrator and concept artist. Archives
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