home sweet shoebox

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Fun at school

I spent yesterday morning at a Denton ISD art teacher in-service at Billy Ryan HS. It was really great to be back among my peeps. I spent most of the time asking them about their education in art education and how it has paid off in the "real world." Most of them felt like the theory has been really valuable and that the "practical" classes like How to Write a Lesson Plan have turned out to be really impractical. This supports my theory that more theory needs to be made available to public school teachers and more practical experience needs to be made available to university professors who are training those students.

1 comment:

Lisa Savage, M.Ed said...

Ha...what a revelation! I'll never forget asking my professor in this very same program (minus ten years, so no multimedia debates. Only debates such as "the pencil? or the pen? It was heady to say the least.) what level she taught in public school in her previous life before college. Her answer "I have never taught in public school." I am not sure who was more embarrassed, me for asking the question or her for being outted.