About EDUC466This teacher portfolio covers the experiences I had in learning and teaching throughout the Methods and Assessment class EDUC466. The course description was as follows: “A true education does not necessarily occur within the structured setting of a classroom, in fifty-minute segments over the course of a semester. Learning is about people—and lives are often transformed as the process of “understanding” evolves over time. Whenever we speak of education, we are speaking of a person’s experience in the world (Grumet, 1975). In this class, art students in the process of becoming teachers search to find insight into the basic philosophical understanding of what may be termed an educational experience: who they are, what they do, and how they define themselves in the context of the teaching situation. Using this philosophical underpinning, students will investigate methods and materials appropriate to standards-based art education. Current practices in the instruction of studio art, art history, aesthetics, and criticism will be explored and applied through class activities and field experiences."
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EDUC466 was a course that really allowed me to stretch what I have learned in previous art education courses and put them into practice. The opportunities I had at Beattie Elementary in Kimberly Noel's classroom teaching the kindergartners and third graders were very valuable as I was able to put theories in methods into practice on a consistent basis. EDUC466 also provided some useful basics for our future teaching practice. Examples of these are ideation methods, assessment methods, safety and art classroom setup and structure. Although we weren't able to go deep into using these methods they will be useful in the future nonetheless!
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