sábado, 25 de julio de 2009



What is creARTive teach?
I’ve asked myself very often what happens to a teacher when he or she enters the classroom. Why is teaching such a passion?
I am sure I love teaching because I love learning. Stimulating the minds of children and helping them learn is a challenging task that constantly requires new ideas and a fresh outlook. We teachers need to be lifelong seekers of information, inspiration, and tools to become fulfilled, effective, growing professionals for our kids.
Teachers mold the future each day in class, we must positively impact a child’s outcome, and that is a big responsibility to hold in one’s hands.
I would definitely say that “Creativity” is the key. To be creative means to see things from a different perspective, to find alternatives, possibilities, to be able to stimulate others and ourselves. It is also the uniqueness of our ideas and the way we communicate them to students. Creative teachers experience the world in novel and original ways and our task is to transmit this to our students so that they can find a way to discover new fresh perceptions, and make important discoveries of their own. We have to provide fun and constructive experiences that stimulate and encourage their natural creativity.
Art and Education
Art as a form of expression is a vehicle of communication, of outreach, indicative of the common plight of humanity to be part of community. Each story communicated by each of the arts combines to create a more complete, more complex, more fully and unconsciously honest picture.
It is never too early to get children excited about the world of art, for teaching those to have an appreciation for the arts at an early age will help them to stay in tune with their creative side throughout their entire lives. Children learn how to dig into their creative side to create something without judging the outcome before it happens. They learn coordination and motor skills, making their hands reproduce either what their eyes see or their mind envisions.
Art teaches children the important skills of analysis, which will come into play for the rest of their lives. Art teaches them history and culture. Art can bring all those skills that represent important cognitive skills for success in one’s entire life.