As an instructor I hope to facilitate the open exchange of ideas in class. To help make the content of my class accessible and comprehensible, I will integrate a multi-discipline view of concepts explored, using varied graphic media, music, and, when appropriate, riddles.
As a future art teacher, I will assess a student’s learning using whatever institutional or government guidelines I am obliged to follow. However, a more holistic approach, I believe, is needed. I would hope to see a student leave as an individual with an inquisitive mind, an empathetic regard for peers, a high regard for creative endeavor, a robust tolerance for ambiguity, and the empirical experience of facing challenges and reaching beyond the known.
Being an art teacher I feel is like getting in on the ground level to grown intellectually curious, respectful, emotionally literate human beings. With language we learn to speak, to listen, to read, and to write, and with art we learn to feel and express this core dimension of ourselves beyond language.
-D