Starting with...Chapter 2

Sylvia Kind raised some interesting information about children and their journey through art that I didn't know before. It talks about how art making activities early on are often kinesthetic and sensory based as opposed to story telling driven as it becomes later on in development. This will guide me to keep in mind that encouraging experimentation in art with our whole bodies and trying different movements early on will be successful and encouraging children in later years to explain their story telling. I have always known that for children art is a sensory experience and what feels good to children will often be what they pursue the most. This will guide my practice by making sure I proved many different materials for art making that evoke different sensory experiences. I also know that children create what they know. What they know is formed by their social and cultural experiences. As a teacher, we need to be sensitive to these different backgrounds and not homogenize our classrooms only according to developmental level. This chapter also talks about the fact that there are several different ways to learn any given task. I also believe this is true. Just as there are many different learners, there are also many ways of learning. As a future educator, I can keep this in mind by creating lessons that will be meaningful to the learner in the way that they learn best.