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Re: educating educators about art

From: KtownLady
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 12:09:15 PST

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    Hi,

    I tried the request in September once, too... a few teachers did reply. I
    asked for a simple list of main themes they taught in Social Studies the
    previous years and what time of year it was presented.

    After struggling to coordinate, I finally gave up. I do still support the
    curriculum, and have decided that timing is not so crucial. I get feedback
    from 6th grade teachers in another school that my Egyptian unit in 4th Grade
    was recalled by many students, and is a great foundation for them.
    Conversely, I have noted that my unit on Navajo Art is best recieved by 4th
    graders near the end of the year after they have studied the info in their
    own class.

    The teacher who used to come and expect me to drop my curriculum to support
    hers has retired... it was good working with her, but I do not miss the
    frustration.

    Christine Merriam
    Kayenta Intermediate School

    In a message dated 1/24/00 5:36:11 PM, anna writes:

    << Im wondering if many of you out there have experienced this problem (I'm
    guessing quite a few). For some reason many teachers think that it's okay
    for them to come to me to ask me to do a certain project with their
    students, so that they may use in the classroom (ie clay animals for their
    dioramas). I wouldn't mind this so much except that, I asked for these
    curricular "ideas" in September and got no response from any teachers.
    Since then, they come to me the week of this " great idea for a project"
    and expect me to drop everything and support their classroom curriculum. >> 

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