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CHANGE: If you are a teacher, does your curriculum differ from how you were taught and if so, how? If you are preparing to become a teacher in any of the art disciplines, do you plan to transmit the same curriculum or change it? If you plan to change it, what changes would you make?

Yes, the curriculum differs a lot from how I was taught in my undergraduate time as a student. I feel as though in college they stress so much importance on lesson plans and submission of them, however in my current school district they are reviewed by my supervisor once a month. Nothing, major just a general overview. The curriculum is a a lot different because it focuses a lot on different styles of teaching and I was taught that depending on the class you would include different styles of teaching. My school wants me to include different styles all the time.

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NEEDS: Do you think studio art, art education and art history curricula need to be changed and if so, how?

In teaching art history, I feel as though the art history curricula needs to be changed because we are instructed by Collegeboard to teach to the test. It is horrible, simply because they break the test down to percentages of what era is mostly going to be on the test to the least. As a teacher who loves art history, I feel as though the classroom and curricula needs to taught according to the importance of art from that time period. For example, which piece of art had the greatest impact during that time, history of families that ruled a lot of art, another example would be the Medici family. My students just got done taking the exam and a lot of them said that African Art and Indian Art was on the exam, however we were instructed to now focus our time on that area of art. So in that case I feel that the art history curricula needs to be changed in that way.

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I dont feel as though much needs to be changed with the status and present condition of the art education curriculum. I feel that it much changes with the way society is and the ever changing world in which we live in. The only thing that I can think about in all the assignments and reading and after listening to the lectures from the Professors I feel that maybe a challenge in curriculum would be how current day art education takes from the past and since a lot of students are unaware of the past as much as they are of the present and future it might make it difficult to have that work within that curriculum. Its important to include the past, however focusing on the future is probably the best option since that is the direction we are moving.

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