Thursday, February 5, 2009
Elementary Art
About five years ago, Arkansas passed a law requiring one hour of art per week for every student, grades one through six. Before that, some elementary schools had teachers designated specifically for art, but many did not. I think those students participated in art projects with their regular classroom teachers. What is the situation in Iceland for the visual arts in elementary schools? As an educator to elementary aged students, I'm interested.
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In our main curriculum it says that every child have to learn some basics on Art. It varies from school to school. It used to be 2 teaching hours per week, but now more and more school divide the year into ca 5 sessions and one of this sessions is art. The student group is then usually quite small.
ReplyDeleteFor me as an artist I think this is much too little.
I believe that most of the school teacher‘s have bakground as artist or have taken special art courses in their education.
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