Generally, parents who don’t appreciate art because they don’t understand it don’t take their children there. The role of parents and school are completely different. Parents have the right to choose what to share with their children. Teachers should have a prescriptive guide to exactly what they’re responsible to teach.
@Mr_S_Ont@realJ_Mitchell Better instruction would help. And yes, explaining its application might help. But giving students little successes works much better for motivating students to put effort into learning.
@realJ_Mitchell@Mr_S_Ont Yes. Anf if you’re knowledgeable in art, your kids will learn something. But doing family cultural things is different than school.
@BeachLoverOnt@ArfinNathaniel@realJ_Mitchell Even worse then. An 21 year old. They don’t have enough mastery of the basics to apply them to roller coaster design. And those basics include math and physics. What 11 year old has mastered physics?
@1StarAtaTyme@realJ_Mitchell Nearly all school projects in an inquiry based classroom end up at home, and where the home is wealthy and knowledgeable, project are done or greatly assisted by parents or tge tutors they hire.
@realJ_Mitchell I don’t actually. But o do understand how learning and retention for novel application works. And projects for home are the least equitable and least efficient way to teach.
@realJ_Mitchell@ArfinNathaniel I’d like it if there was as much focus on mastery and retention as there is to amusing projects. Then, the project makes some sense. The problem is that many teachers think the project is the main - or only- thing.
@realJ_Mitchell@ArfinNathaniel As a parent, I’ve been there. We end up doing these projects. Pity the kids whose parents work three jobs and can’t do their kids’ projects.
@tara_taylor@realJ_Mitchell Sure. After they’ve learned the concept and how to apply it to mastery. As a 30 second example of its application to portraiture.