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Andy Bensen
Mar 5, 20211 min read
Questions on Curriculum
My cooperating teacher has a huge back-catalogue of resources and curriculum maps from decades of teaching experience. The lesson plans...
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Andy Bensen
Mar 2, 20213 min read
Social Justice and Service Learning
Theories of social justice in art education seem to merge a lot of what we covered in multiculturalism as well as visual culture. We can...
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Andy Bensen
Feb 23, 20211 min read
How do I prepare for a lesson?
Prior to teaching a lesson I consider how confident I can actually talk about what is being discussed, and whether my background is...
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Andy Bensen
Feb 23, 20212 min read
Visual Culture in Art Education
Why teach mundane art alongside the classics? The general idea here seems to be that there is a question, and growing movement, that asks...
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Andy Bensen
Feb 19, 20211 min read
Do you need to be an artist to be an art teacher?
Art instructors should absolutely be active artists. Art is unique among content areas for how much of the identity of the individual...
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Andy Bensen
Feb 17, 20211 min read
What is Art?
I’ve asked myself this questions a number of times throughout my life, and I occasionally find myself wondering if ‘art’ is a well...
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Andy Bensen
Feb 15, 20212 min read
Multiculturalism in Art Education
Multiculturalism as term: One of the tricky aspects that arises when trying to write about multiculturalism is the broad number of facets...
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Andy Bensen
Feb 10, 20212 min read
Aesthetic Instruction
Example: Mr. Harsh Mr. Harsh commands his classroom with a wonderful ability to pull aesthetic descriptions out of artwork and...
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Andy Bensen
Feb 9, 20212 min read
Aesthetics
(Robert Rauschenberg, Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953) It seems to me an ambitious move to have added 'aesthetics' to the list of...
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Andy Bensen
Feb 9, 20212 min read
Reasons for Teaching
It can be tricky to put into words something that wasn't entirely a verbal decision. After working in industry for a few years with...
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Andy Bensen
Feb 2, 20212 min read
University Student in a Covid World
It's been an odd time to try to learn art, and an even odder time to learn how to educate. Much of the kind of art that students enjoy...
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Andy Bensen
Feb 2, 20212 min read
Arts Advocacy
It concerns me that a common observation is that art education tends to provide benefits that aren’t likely to be valued in a...
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Andy Bensen
Jan 28, 20211 min read
Meme Time
Proper preparation and planning are essential to any projects success. One of the most important ways to structure an ongoing project is...
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Andy Bensen
Jan 28, 20211 min read
Experiences and Strengths
I plan on utilizing this blog to detail progress, tools, and strategies I pick up regarding art education. Leading up until this point my...
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