Welcome to ART at Village Meadows
Mrs. Mostoller and Mrs. Dieterich
It is with heavy hearts that we must say goodbye. Due to District-wide changes and reductions in hours, we will not be returning to Village Meadows next year. We want to thank everyone for their support and kindness, especially the staff and students. It has been a true honor to work here for the last two years. We wish everyone the best. Fondly, Mrs. Dieterich and Mrs. Mostoller.
Our Teaching Philosophy
Art is naturally linked to core subjects and should be taught in a way that students can make connections from the art classroom to the rest of the world. Exploring these links stimulates curiosity, reinforces problem solving, critical thinking, empathy, self-esteem, creativity, and community. Students should not only have the access to learn about art, but also use art as a tool to learn. In addition to being an interdisciplinary experience, Elementary Art should also be creative and joyful!
"The only route to the destination is the high road." p. 51 Drive
"Positive feedback can have an enhancing effect on intrinsic motivation." p. 67 Drive
"Positive feedback can have an enhancing effect on intrinsic motivation." p. 67 Drive
Art Quotes
“I must study politics and war, that my sons may study mathematics and philosophy…in order to give their children the right to study painting, poetry, music, and architecture.” ~~John Q. Adams
"The arts are an essential element of education, just like reading, writing, and arithmetic…music, dance, painting, and theater are all keys that unlock profound human understanding and accomplishment.” ~~William Bennett, Former US Secretary of Education
"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” ~~ Scott Adams
“I am still learning.” ~~ Michelangelo
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ~~ Pablo Picasso
Why Art is Important!
Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
By Elliot Eisner
The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution.
And that questions can have more than one answer.
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving...
purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor number exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.
The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source.
Through such experience we discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92).
Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
By Elliot Eisner
The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution.
And that questions can have more than one answer.
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving...
purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor number exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.
The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source.
Through such experience we discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92).