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Welcome to the Art Web Site. My name is Patricia MacDonell and I am pleased to b=
e teaching the children of Te=
cumseh this year. I have been=
in the field of education for approximately 15 years. I have been a special education teacher, a presch=
ool teacher and an art teacher. I look forward to using my experience to introduce the children to the w=
orld of art using various experiences, numerous techniques, methods and=
materials. I wi=
ll introduce the children to many artists both past and present, as well as=
point out the uses of art in our everyday world while following the New Yo=
rk State Standards for the Visual Arts.&nb=
sp; It is my hope to foster and encourage a love of art and cr=
eativity in all my students, by experience and example. Mrs.=
Patricia MacDonell |
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WHY TAKE ART? Ten Lessons the Arts Teac=
h By Elli=
ot Eisner *The=
arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships=
. Unlike much of the curric=
ulum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgmen=
t rather than rules that prevail. *The=
arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution, and tha=
t questions can have more than one answer. *The=
arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their largest less=
ons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world. *The=
arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are =
seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requ=
ires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possib=
ilities of the work as it unfolds. *The=
arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numb=
er exhaust what we can know. The limits of our languag=
e do not define the limits of our cognition. *The=
arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtl=
eties. *The=
arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some=
means through which images become real. *The=
arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are incited=
to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their=
poetic capacities to find the words that will to the job. *The=
arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and thr=
ough such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capab=
le of feeling. *The= art’s position in the school curriculum symbolize to the young what adults believe is important.<= o:p> SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Min=
d, In Chapter 4, What the Arts =
Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from =
NAEA Publications. |