The Creative Process This experience taught me a lot about the creative process. As art isn't a literacy that comes naturally to me, I found that I had a lot to learn along with my students. Together we learned how to create our mythical creatures and explored different ideas of colour and painting techniques in the process. I saw students work collaboratively to create ideas and saw others take those ideas and turn them into their own creation. From this experience I learned that as a teacher I need to give my students more time within these lessons to spend on their own creative processes.
Another area in which I grew as a classroom teacher was using art to engage students in a subject. In a classroom where students did not generally enjoy their learning I found that art was a great way to engage them and gave them a new way to communicate their understanding. The power of art as a form of communication really hit home for me while reading a text for one of my second year university courses on teaching our students the skills they need to better communicate through drawing. This really made me wonder what effective communication would have looked like if we had given these students the opportunity to further develop these new communication skills through the multiple literacies of art. Considering that these students had very little exposure to arts on a daily basis, the detail and meaning found in their work was noteworthy.
The following pictures are some examples of the work completed by students through multiple sessions on the design of mythical creatures and myth writing.
This experience taught me a lot about the creative process. As art isn't a literacy that comes naturally to me, I found that I had a lot to learn along with my students. Together we learned how to create our mythical creatures and explored different ideas of colour and painting techniques in the process. I saw students work collaboratively to create ideas and saw others take those ideas and turn them into their own creation. From this experience I learned that as a teacher I need to give my students more time within these lessons to spend on their own creative processes.
Another area in which I grew as a classroom teacher was using art to engage students in a subject. In a classroom where students did not generally enjoy their learning I found that art was a great way to engage them and gave them a new way to communicate their understanding. The power of art as a form of communication really hit home for me while reading a text for one of my second year university courses on teaching our students the skills they need to better communicate through drawing. This really made me wonder what effective communication would have looked like if we had given these students the opportunity to further develop these new communication skills through the multiple literacies of art. Considering that these students had very little exposure to arts on a daily basis, the detail and meaning found in their work was noteworthy.
The following pictures are some examples of the work completed by students through multiple sessions on the design of mythical creatures and myth writing.
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