When the teacher gets better, her students do, too

Project (M.A., Education (Curriculum and Instruction))-- California State University, Sacramento, 2010.This project is a Culminating Experience for a Master of Arts in Education: Curriculum and Instruction with an Elective Emphasis on Arts in Education. It follows pathway I: the artist as educator developing knowledge and skills in a particular area of the arts with a disposition toward applying the acquired expertise to arts education. This project is one in which the educator will improve her own skills as an artist in order to become a better art teacher. Her goal is to become a catalyst for improvement in her students??? artwork. The specific areas that the teacher will be working on are those of formal art training that she has not previously had. They include improving the ability to paint and draw in a more realistic way in the areas of perspective, proportion and chiaroscuro. The teacher will show through narrative and traditional research that there is a correlation between the teacher???s expertise and the students??? \ud \ud performance in the visual arts. This teacher will show through improvement in her own artwork that formal training is essential for improvement.Education (Curriculum and Instruction