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I don’t feel it is culturally responsive at all, but I feel strongly that it needs to be. I feel that present-day curriculum is focused on the products our students create and how much we can incorporate the facts into their assignments.
The ability to explore through the arts is incredibly important. Allowing students to focus on issues of gender, race, age, sexuality, and disability within the arts will offer them the chance to truly connect with that which they are creating, and therefore the techniques and history behind their media and ideas. It would be incredibly beneficial for curricula to migrate towards cultural-responsiveness.

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I don’t believe that the curriculum I teach varies much from that which I was taught. I am constantly reminded of my own projects from primary school when I re-visit my curriculum to consider projects for the semesters.
It is my goal, when I am planning, to implement projects in which the students are the leaders. I would like for them to do research and teach me about the artists they re interested in. Why are they drawn to this? How do they relate?
I think it is necessary we push the importance of process within the classroom, and stray farther away from the focus on product.

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I don’t find as much frustration with the grading aspect of curriculum as I find frustration with it’s rigidity.
I would like to allow my students the freedom to explore media and artists/art movements without confining them to requirements set forth by districts.
Studio art is very much about the techniques and how our students (and we) respond to them. Gaining understanding through teacher driven instruction is wonderful, but there is something so exciting in the moments when a student discovers an artist or movement that they love on their own.

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