Thursday, February 9, 2012

Do you teach a discipline-based art curriculum or a choice-based one?

I plan on teaching both. Depending on the school system I'm working in, DBAE may be a larger factor in it's curriculum. The factors that make up DBAE are huge trend right now in education, and some schools will emphasize them more because they are said to validate why the arts should be taught in schools. 
While in a choice based curriculum, it is more about the process than the product, I think it is possible to let students make decisions and take ownership in their learning in a discipline based curriculum.
Both have their benefits in my opinion. I believe that students learn from teachers instruction, but they also learn from making their own decisions. Through their own trial and error, I believe, is where the real learning occurs.

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