advocacy

I will want to advocate for the arts in my district and show how important the arts are. As a teacher I can join groups that advocate for the arts and share ideas within communities. I think it is important for teachers to crank up their imaginations by sharing and brain storming and trying new things. You can get comfortable with doing skill lessons and teaching techniques which is probably what the school districts want. But you can take those skills to a new degree and make the project incorporate those skills in a new way. I see this happen where for example students learn about monocromatic color schemes where they pick on color and just add black or white. They can cathc on to this comcept pretty quick because it is not rocket science and after the first or second value scale they try they should get it. But take this project and make it unique. Make them think about a drawing and have them only use one shade at a time and then build everyday with a different shade so they can see the image becoming more and more elaborate. It is also good for teachers not to get stuck in their own ways. I hope to have enough different projects I can do so I do not have to repeat anything for a few years. I think students can get involved in advocating for the arts by appreciation and even becoming involved within the school in more than one field of art like theater and music. They can get more ideas and show to the schools that art is very important to their high school lives.