Education Tips and Tidbits

1. I recommend for any education student working with a supervising teacher to take a notebook with you to class every day and write down any little tidbits that the teacher gives you. For instance, my current teacher has given me some awesome ideas for the use of puppets. She uses a bunny and calls him 'shy bunny'. 'Shy Bunny' only comes out when the class can be quiet. 'Shy Bunny' also is used to let a student know when they are not behaving in a good way. The student makes shy bunny upset when they don't act good!
2. Communing with nature is not only relaxing it is educational in a varitety of disciplines: Art, Science, Music, and Math
3. Art is not only nice it is necessary! (a quote taken from the textbook: Children and Their Art). I truly believe in this quote purely because my own children communicate and express themselves through art. If they were not able to create their 'art' I believe they would not be as outgoing as they are.
4. Art frees the mind. There are no close minded people in the art world. This is proven with the Bodies exhibit (which, by the way I don't approve of!)