2/9 Guest Speaker

Today we had a guest speaker, Ms. O from DHS. Ms. O is a very energetic woman who still seems very much in love with her career and very dedicated to her students. I really enjoyed the creativity that Ms. O puts into her lessons and how she involves her students in the lesson planning process, by asking them what they want to do and adjusting her lessons to suit those wants. Ms. O showed us a very entertaining video of a performance painting that some of her students did alongside the school choir/band. Although the painting may have not been perfectly executed the students were very expressive and it sounds like the audience really enjoyed the performance in its entirety. Ms. O's advice was very different than that of what I have heard from other art educators, in that her entire approach to education is student based and for the most part choice based. I really enjoyed that she was still so passionate about everything she was doing and hadn't become jaded by the politics of education.