Mrs.Chovan
Duanesburg Elementary School
Art Teacher prek - 6
My teaching philosophy is strongly linked with my artistic philosophy and life experiences. I use art as a medium in which to challenge my students to think, ask questions, and to be articulate. I want them to be courageous, responsible, empathetic, and open minded. I love learning from my students. I believe art, by itself, does not exist. The process of making, experiencing, and understanding art is closely tied to our personal and social knowledge. In teaching art, this concerns not only tackling art making and building those 21st century skills but also allows students a way of figuring themselves out. Here the student and the teacher are both involved in the thinking processes that propels us to take steps together and allows us to learn together.
My highest priority is for each student to learn how to educate themselves as artists while building the skills they need to be successful when creating within my classroom. Lastly, I believe that the physical process of making art can be the most enjoyable activity anyone can do, there is a great piece that maintains the balance among intellectual, intuitive and the physical being of the human existence that anyone with a little motivation and effort can achieve. My curriculums are scaffolded through skill building but each grade level studies different cultures, artists and techniques throughout their time with me. I expose my students to a variety of mediums and concepts to create an engaging and FUN environment while maintaining a respectful, responsible and safe classroom. I follow the New York State Visual Arts Standards while keeping within the National Standards. I’m looking forward to another fun year creating art with all of my students here at Duanesburg Elementary School!
Duanesburg Elementary School
Art Teacher prek - 6
My teaching philosophy is strongly linked with my artistic philosophy and life experiences. I use art as a medium in which to challenge my students to think, ask questions, and to be articulate. I want them to be courageous, responsible, empathetic, and open minded. I love learning from my students. I believe art, by itself, does not exist. The process of making, experiencing, and understanding art is closely tied to our personal and social knowledge. In teaching art, this concerns not only tackling art making and building those 21st century skills but also allows students a way of figuring themselves out. Here the student and the teacher are both involved in the thinking processes that propels us to take steps together and allows us to learn together.
My highest priority is for each student to learn how to educate themselves as artists while building the skills they need to be successful when creating within my classroom. Lastly, I believe that the physical process of making art can be the most enjoyable activity anyone can do, there is a great piece that maintains the balance among intellectual, intuitive and the physical being of the human existence that anyone with a little motivation and effort can achieve. My curriculums are scaffolded through skill building but each grade level studies different cultures, artists and techniques throughout their time with me. I expose my students to a variety of mediums and concepts to create an engaging and FUN environment while maintaining a respectful, responsible and safe classroom. I follow the New York State Visual Arts Standards while keeping within the National Standards. I’m looking forward to another fun year creating art with all of my students here at Duanesburg Elementary School!
Curriculums
Each grade level is exposed to a variety of mediums, tools, techniques and concepts throughout their years with me. Time permitting, we complete one clay project per grade level as well as a huge variety of 2-D and 3-D works. Each student has and uses a sketchbook within my art room, they are purchased in second grade and can roll over each year until the student runs out of pages. 6th graders have homework
Kindergarten: My focus is to build the skills needed to be successful artists. We discover art through literature at this age level. Some books that I traditionally use each year are "The Giving Tree", "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "The Biggest House in the World" to name a few. Each student will engage and use a variety of mediums within their art work. During art class we will develop fine motor skills and refine our motor skills.
First Grade: My curriculum is divided into 3 units. We learn about 3 different artists and the techniques surrounding them. We dabble a little with the color wheel, color families and artists who worked in these areas specifically. Our second unit is based off of birds and later our year ends with The First Grade Hoe down and learn about farm animals.
Second Grade: This grade level explores the world and the various cultures and techniques within in. Such projects include the Statue of Liberty collage paintings, Cave Drawings and Symbols and artwork associated with ancient Egypt, to name a few.
Third Grade: The year is divided into two units, the first focus being on artists/movement and the second we discover the treasures of Asian Art, which coincides with their classroom Social Studies curriculum. This is also the year that I begin introducing traditional cursive handwriting. I do not want this skill to be lost to my students because not only is it useful but it is a beautiful forgotten form of art.
Fourth Grade: My curriculum during this year is divided into two units. One focus being artist/technique and the second being the Native American culture. This is the year that I introduce yarn weaving and we create artwork that surrounds the Native American culture.
Fifth Grade: Students have two units at this grade level. One focusing on artists and the other surrounds the Latin American culture. We also create a project using cursive and clay.
Sixth Grade: Their curriculum focuses on artists and the elements and principals of design.
Each grade level is exposed to a variety of mediums, tools, techniques and concepts throughout their years with me. Time permitting, we complete one clay project per grade level as well as a huge variety of 2-D and 3-D works. Each student has and uses a sketchbook within my art room, they are purchased in second grade and can roll over each year until the student runs out of pages. 6th graders have homework
Kindergarten: My focus is to build the skills needed to be successful artists. We discover art through literature at this age level. Some books that I traditionally use each year are "The Giving Tree", "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "The Biggest House in the World" to name a few. Each student will engage and use a variety of mediums within their art work. During art class we will develop fine motor skills and refine our motor skills.
First Grade: My curriculum is divided into 3 units. We learn about 3 different artists and the techniques surrounding them. We dabble a little with the color wheel, color families and artists who worked in these areas specifically. Our second unit is based off of birds and later our year ends with The First Grade Hoe down and learn about farm animals.
Second Grade: This grade level explores the world and the various cultures and techniques within in. Such projects include the Statue of Liberty collage paintings, Cave Drawings and Symbols and artwork associated with ancient Egypt, to name a few.
Third Grade: The year is divided into two units, the first focus being on artists/movement and the second we discover the treasures of Asian Art, which coincides with their classroom Social Studies curriculum. This is also the year that I begin introducing traditional cursive handwriting. I do not want this skill to be lost to my students because not only is it useful but it is a beautiful forgotten form of art.
Fourth Grade: My curriculum during this year is divided into two units. One focus being artist/technique and the second being the Native American culture. This is the year that I introduce yarn weaving and we create artwork that surrounds the Native American culture.
Fifth Grade: Students have two units at this grade level. One focusing on artists and the other surrounds the Latin American culture. We also create a project using cursive and clay.
Sixth Grade: Their curriculum focuses on artists and the elements and principals of design.