EDEL 4540: Reflection 1: Teaching In, Through, With, & About the Arts

I have taken a few arts classes in my school years. My most recent experience with art would be from high school and my 3 years of college. I loved art classes when i was in elementary although i wasn't very good at it. I had teachers who would integrate art into my assignments. One assignment i remember in particular was in the fourth grade. We researched about mountain men and i was assigned Jim Bridger. We were to write about their life and draw a picture of what they looked like. This was one of my favorite assignments as a child. I took an interior design class in high school through UVU (UVSC at the time) and i absolutely loved the class. I would really love to incorporate arts in my class room. I learned a lot in the few chapters of the book so far and i cant wait to learn more! One of my favorites was that you cant Google new problems, because if they are new problems then there aren't any solutions yet. My future students are going to be the ones to come up with those solutions so i cant be the kind of teacher to squash their ideas. I need and have to be the kind of teacher who uses lots of arts in my classroom. My teachers loved art when i was in school. I think that is one reason i loved art so much when i was younger. They have had a lot of influence on my life and why i want to become a teacher.  I need to love the arts like they did in order to incorporate them into my classroom. I need to learn a lot more about art in order to be able to integrate the arts effectively into my future classroom. I am so excited for this class and to learn so much about art and bring my childhood love of art back to life!!!