Teaching Philosophy
My work with students guides them to keep an open mind to the potential in the arts. In the classroom, I encourage students to use the process of drawing and painting to internalize, organize, and understand the environment around them through observation. This approach is meant to help them develop a visual literacy and competency with a visual art medium that is in conjunction with an understanding of historical and contemporary aesthetic concerns. In my teaching I want to strengthen my students problem solving skills. My intention is to help students make decisions and form opinions so that beyond my classroom they can effectively pursue their individual curiosities in multiple disciplines in the arts.
Progression in teaching guidelines begins with the dissemination of information that challenges the students’ ideas. By engaging students with paramount figures in drawing and painting, in peer reviews, and in intellectual exchange of ideas, I can assist in cultivating their critical attitude towards drawing, painting, and other disciplines in art, which involves developing critical thinking abilities to achieve clarity and relevance of expression.
The synthesis of students’ ideas and the execution of their ideas is successful when we work together to clarify the formal, practical, and theoretical purposes of drawing. In a discipline involving creative thought, I promote rigorous studio practice that will enable students to work in other fields and have a lasting discourse with their work.
I encourage students to work in multi-disciplinary fields with many other professors because variance helps them consider multiple points of view and embrace diversity. As an educator, my goal is to help prepare students for the challenges that the world outside of the classroom presents.
Progression in teaching guidelines begins with the dissemination of information that challenges the students’ ideas. By engaging students with paramount figures in drawing and painting, in peer reviews, and in intellectual exchange of ideas, I can assist in cultivating their critical attitude towards drawing, painting, and other disciplines in art, which involves developing critical thinking abilities to achieve clarity and relevance of expression.
The synthesis of students’ ideas and the execution of their ideas is successful when we work together to clarify the formal, practical, and theoretical purposes of drawing. In a discipline involving creative thought, I promote rigorous studio practice that will enable students to work in other fields and have a lasting discourse with their work.
I encourage students to work in multi-disciplinary fields with many other professors because variance helps them consider multiple points of view and embrace diversity. As an educator, my goal is to help prepare students for the challenges that the world outside of the classroom presents.