Paint Learning Experience

2. saw that as a child develops they use different ways of representing the things around them.

Throughout my early teen years, I was exposed to different mediums of art and discovered that I could express myself through more channels than just paper. Although Barry found comfort in her 11 x 17 newsprint and some paint, I was able to focus my energy on making music and taking photographs. Without my art teachers, I wouldn’t have the expressive outlet I do today. My childhood was not filled with unhappiness as Lynda Barry’s was, but from both backgrounds, we found a warmth from the exposure of art that the educational system gave to us.

In terms of understanding of the world the children used their senses to investigate objects and materials by used. The children also constructed letters with an object and adapted their work where necessary.

o Teacher reads book to the class allowing time for children to reflect on the book and link it to their personal experiences. o Discuss with children the illustrations and the significance of dot painting in Aboriginal culture. Focus of the learning experience: o Put selected sentences from the text on sentence strips and read the text to the class.

It was time for some of the children to get out some table top toys, so painting, colouring; drawings was put out as well as connect 4 and ludo games. The children divided them self’s up, I sat with some children on the colouring table, which we started to draw some pictures of dolls and people, child A had me drawing some people, a man, a woman, etc then child A sat down and started to colour in the pictures, while doing this child

• Creativity emerges as children become absorbed in action and explorations of their own ideas, expressing

To enable the children’s voices to be heard, I explored various tools to engage the children from the Mosaic approach (Clark & Moss 2001). I disregarded using questionnaires as the children were unable to read and write so this would have been inappropriate. I disregarded role play as I didn’t feel I would get the responses I needed as directly, and I decided not to use tours as not all the children were confident communicators and they may have found this difficult. I wanted to be as inclusive as possible and ensure the technique was age and development appropriate. Therefore I chose to gather documentation by enabling the children to use cameras to take photos outdoors of what they liked and didn’t like. To ensure confidentiality of the photos taken I kept them in my private locked filing cabinet that only myself and my manager had access to. As my research required the children’s perceptions this technique ensured it was child led as were the later discussion where we came together in a quiet area to talk about why they took their particular images. This discussion enabled me to interpret what they were trying to say to me through the photos. As we looked at the photos it prompted their memory of why they had taken the picture. It was an interactive way to engage the children, and by the children taking their own photos helped lead the

The teacher supports the children's right to be different as the children's art and crafts are being displayed in classrooms by the teacher and classroom assistant. The positive impact is that the children can feel a sense of achievement by looking at what they have done. The children are encouraged by teachers to express themselves though their school bags and lunch boxes. The positive impact is that children are able to feel comfortable as they have familiar objects around them. In doing these things the teacher also promotes creativity and individuality.

At all stages (including very early mark making) the children’s work is positively encouraged, valued and exhibited.

E: I think using a picture to spark creativity is a good idea for all children. During my experience hours, the teacher that I was aired with gave her student a picture of a woman pulling her hair out and two other children below her arguing, and the students had to write what each person was thinking and saying. Her students came up with really interesting answers, and it was a great activity.

From the activity what was intended to occur was the children being able to identify physical attributes and from there be able to form sets. Some of the behaviors that I will observe that will indicate that children are learning will be as the children are able to identify things that are the same to form sets, furthermore as they perform forming sets aside from this activity. Some of the things that they will say will be things like “this is the same”, “this is different”, “this person has this, and this person doesn’t”, “this is a set”.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” During my past career as an art teacher at Intel Academy, introducing and demonstrating aesthetic techniques and materials have thrilled me as much as completing an art piece. Through workshops and demonstrations, I learned how to communicate and suggest better ways of developing their ideas and expressions. Some children had difficulties encountering art due to their behavioral problems; however, respecting their accomplishments and encouraging their process of following the curriculum became a part of the solution. My decision to apply to masters program in art education was pursued as I faced these

Conversely, it was not going well at the start of the activity because Jenny tried to create mixture colours then the mixture colours became dark coulours which could not see whether the second layer was sits on the bottom layer. This mistake would not happen in the future as I will show the children the way to do this activity and they can practice by themselves. At last, it is important to find an experiment that children feel interesting so they would engage within the experiment. In contrast, students will fail to learn if they feel disinterested, tired and scared in a science inquiry

The location of the observation was at the Community Center (Early Childhood education program) at 11:00am to 12:30pm on April 15, 2014. The meaningful experiences in early childhood education can positively shape children's development. With a teacher is guidance authentic child-art activity can educate enrich young students' learning abilities, encourage positive attitudes toward other children, and more importantly, learn to interact with people around them in the contemporary world. However, art for young students often takes many diversified approaches and emphasizing questionable practices. Observation is a part of meaningful and authentic early childhood art education. Observation enriches children’s experiences in

The Visual Art is an important part for students to learn, especially students in the early childhood education because it develops their self-expression, imagination, creativity, confidence and observation skills. Also, the Visual Art is implemented in the Australian Curriculum and Early Years Learning Framework. Hence, this documentation focuses on conducting an authentic art learning experience through observing and exploring with leaves and colours for an early childhood aged child called Jenny. This activity also provides opportunities for the child to learn about colour through personal experience rather than through teachers’ teaching or quizzing (Pelo, 2007). Therefore, the child will work through different processes to investigate colours based on her prior knowledge. In other words, the child will use different materials, such as leaves, colours and brushes, techniques and processes to explore visual conventions (ACAVAM111)(ACARA, 2014) and paint leaves by using the mixing colours.