Being an educator in the twenty first century has its challenges. We are expected to cover what seems like an unobtainable amount of information in such a short amount of time and produce above average to advanced results with a gamut of student learning abilities. We so often hear that we must “teach to the test”. As a creative minded person and one who teaches students to think and produce creatively, I feel that the concepts of a STEM foundation of education are ideal. A STEM education can help facilitate self-reliant innovators and inventors that are natural problem solvers and logical thinkers. It can foster critical thinking, reasoning, teamwork, investigative, and creative skills – something today’s schools, industry and work force are lacking.
As for an art educator in an education classroom setting, I feel it is only natural to incorporate these ideas and concepts. STEM calls for Science, the study of the natural world; Technology, which includes any product made by humans to meet a …show more content…
Science – The Study of the Natural World:
What is more natural than making and producing art? We can look back over thousands of years and see from pre-historic times until current day that making and producing art is in our nature – from the beginning scribbles of a child to the painting and decoration of our homes as an adult. We incorporate what we see every day and what is around us into our art.
It seems a shame to me that so many schools in an effort to cut cost are cutting their art programs, when if taught correctly their art programs could help to facilitate and work with the concepts of STEM to raise student’s participation, comprehension, and learning. It could also reach those students who lack an academic only approach to learning and bridge the gap between our right and left brain learners with a more hands-on
As for an art educator in an education classroom setting, I feel it is only natural to incorporate these ideas and concepts. STEM calls for Science, the study of the natural world; Technology, which includes any product made by humans to meet a …show more content…
Science – The Study of the Natural World:
What is more natural than making and producing art? We can look back over thousands of years and see from pre-historic times until current day that making and producing art is in our nature – from the beginning scribbles of a child to the painting and decoration of our homes as an adult. We incorporate what we see every day and what is around us into our art.
It seems a shame to me that so many schools in an effort to cut cost are cutting their art programs, when if taught correctly their art programs could help to facilitate and work with the concepts of STEM to raise student’s participation, comprehension, and learning. It could also reach those students who lack an academic only approach to learning and bridge the gap between our right and left brain learners with a more hands-on