Elements of Visual Arts

What:

This week we learned about the elements of visual art, and how to utilize them in different ways.

So What?

I have always believed that interactive learning is important to a students’ development; learning the elements of art and how to use them in different ways is an important lesson to teach at any grade level. The activity we went through today was eye-opening, especially when I realized that I use several elements of art (such as texture  and space) almost every time I doodle. It is something that I feel is instinctive in everyone, but the elements of art put what we do into terms we can understand as students and as teachers.

Now What?

Perspective-wise my opinions haven’t changed much…seeing as I already planned to utilize the Elements of visual art in my future classroom anyway. Learning about the terms and doing activities that help to cement the ideas into my mind help, though. I feel that by going through these lessons, I am getting ideas on lessons I can teach my own students, and learning to become a better teacher through it. I will definitely be sharing what I learn in this class with my students in the future.