Today I began the first and only lecture to the second year primary education unit: Edup2007 Creative Arts with a very warm welcome. I was exposed to a book called: "What good are the arts" by John Carey. I viewed the front cover of the book and I automatically created this image in my mind about what is art and how it makes me feel confident, creative and wanting to become an artist in the future. Part of the set task was to choose from creating a poem/performing what good are the arts/ hot seating/ tap in. So I decided to pair up with a peer member and we both decided to create an acronym from the word: "ART".We came up with A= artistic, R=realistic and T=time. From writing an acronym I was able to decode such processed information to what art is about, what it involves and what inspiring things you can come across throughout your art journey/experience. I was exposed to a range of other different activities such as rhyming poem, hot seating, song and tap in, where these activities made my knowledge more broad while accompanying different ideas and concepts about art. For future implications as a teacher, I would use these types of strategies with the children in the classroom where for example I would show them a artwork from a famous artist and I'd ask open-ended questions to what the picture might be representing, given any other details. Building on from prior knowledge this allows children to further develop creative skills into thinking deeply to what covers art and its aspects. As a pre-service teacher, today's lecture gained me knowledge that I could further plan and implement beyond my teaching expectations.
