Art Education Research Paper

Growing up, having art as a part of our daily curriculum was important. Throughout the years, some schools find that art education isn’t really a necessity. Personally, I find art education to be crucial to a students’ learning experience. When it comes to art education, it isn’t always about the art; it is about what positive things students can take away from the art. Some of the many positive effects not only help with making students’ art beautiful, but it also helps a student in and out of the classroom. Throughout my early education, I never realized how the things I learned in art class would translate into the classroom. According to Grace Lynch, art can improve your language development. This never made sense to me until I …show more content…
I’m not sure if it’s because art was a huge part of my education growing up that excluding it from my curriculum would be unnatural. I just find art as a fun outlet and a good way for students to learn about topics and about themselves. In my classroom, I would use art as a way to express oneself and a way to grasp a concept. I understand that not all students learn the same and including diverse ways to learn material will allow maximum knowledge to be achieved in the classroom. I also believe that art can provide that mental break that students desperately need these days with all of the outside pressure of doing well in school. Overall, art education is critical to students not only at the elementary level, but also at every level of education. The lack of art education would make learning one-noted and boring. Art is important at such a young age because it can work on language development, motor skills and hand-eye coordination, and imagination. All of these things are important to students’ education and well-being. As a future teacher, I will continue to include art in my curriculum and stress its’ importance in the