What Excellent Visual Art Teaching Looks Like
As an Art Teacher, I find that there are still a lot of misunderstandings as to what constitutes excellent art education. Many people still hold the belief that student art should only be "tidy," uniform, "cookie cutter." That, basically, the more a child's art looks like it was made by an adult, the better. As Dr. Judy Burton, my former mentor at Teachers College Columbia University, describes "Rather than direct their pupils toward prescribed or a priori outcomes, effective teachers foster individual interpretations while opening these to critical contemplation among the group."
Children's art should be as different and varied as children themselves. But don't just take my word for it, please read Dr. Burton's article Interweavings: What Excellent Visual Arts Teaching Looks Like.
Dr. Burton is a highly respected, widely-published Art Educator. Her many achievements include the Manuel Barkan Award for excellence in research writing, the Lowenfeld Award for lifetime achievement in art education from NAEA and the Ziegfeld Award for services to international art education from INSEA. Dr. Burton is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in Great Britain, a Distinguished Fellow of the NAEA, and serves as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, and the South China Normal University, Guangzhou. She is the NAEA Eisner Lifetime Achievement honoree for 2015, in recognition of her services to the profession both nationally and globally.
Children's art should be as different and varied as children themselves. But don't just take my word for it, please read Dr. Burton's article Interweavings: What Excellent Visual Arts Teaching Looks Like.
Dr. Burton is a highly respected, widely-published Art Educator. Her many achievements include the Manuel Barkan Award for excellence in research writing, the Lowenfeld Award for lifetime achievement in art education from NAEA and the Ziegfeld Award for services to international art education from INSEA. Dr. Burton is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in Great Britain, a Distinguished Fellow of the NAEA, and serves as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, and the South China Normal University, Guangzhou. She is the NAEA Eisner Lifetime Achievement honoree for 2015, in recognition of her services to the profession both nationally and globally.