Creative Arts Therapists In School

A Day In The Life Of an Art Teacher - An Introduction

© Jo Murphy

You Can Do It, Mary MacKillop

This is an Introduction to a series of articles describing a day in the life of an Experiential Creative Arts Therapist. To begin I will set the scene.

Art is a support subject that has an empowering momentum. It can vitalise the curriculum. The Visioning Wall Project is the example I will use when describing my day.

The topic for the Visioning Wall was …”What do you see yourselves doing in the future?”

When the children devised a rap to perform beside the wall they quipped “You Can Be What You Want To Be!”

One of the Key Phrases quoted from Programme Achieve was “You can do it

Year Twos had already been interviewing people about the roles, rights and responsibilities at work for one of their class projects. The culmination of this project was a class expo that showcased the roles of the people that they had researched.

  1. This exemplifies how the units the children are studying and Art overlap.
  2. I was bringing an art activity to a very fertile well prepared environment.
  3. My focus of research for 2006 and 2007 is about how the Arts can empower numeracy and literacy.
  4. I was supporting the children’s normal work in the class room not bringing something new onto the learning stage.
  5. I went to classes armed with a brief.
  6. The topic was designed to reach all the children in the school and include input from their families as well if possible.
  7. I talked with the children about where they see themselves fitting into the community in the future. (Life's Career.)
  8. We kept their drawings to a specified size to keep the quality consistent.
  9. They for the most part used manageable materials such as felt Tipped Pens, Oil Pastels, Colours and the like.

For further description see Creative Arts Teacher In Year One


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