I value children's potential in creativity and imagination, so I tend to explore their interest and preference in skills and materials alongside them. In my lesson, children can explore artistic experiences in a steady pace, and the most important treasure for them is that they can find a way to express and display the distinctive traits in their personality through art-making, just like all grea...
I value children's potential in creativity and imagination, so I tend to explore their interest and preference in skills and materials alongside them. In my lesson, children can explore artistic experiences in a steady pace, and the most important treasure for them is that they can find a way to express and display the distinctive traits in their personality through art-making, just like all great artists did!
Methodology:
1. Cognitive development: I will choose suitable materials for different ages of children (eg. brushes are more sutiable for children over five years old), to avoid them feel frustrated whilst they using the material.
2. Person-centred approach: Children can be moody sometimes if they experenced a bad day in school or routine suddenIy change. I will support them and help them to self-sooth by expressive art-making.
3. Warm up by introducing by artists' story or art history: Children may feel nervous when they start an art lesson at the first time. I found that introducing creative and interesting artworks for children to warm up, they can pick the tools easily and have more fun in making creative art. Artists can be very inspiring for children, because children are born as artists! As Paul Klee said: "Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age."