Emma Mendoza

Art 133
10/20/2016
UNIT PAPER 4
Lesson plans where children have the chance to use their own ideas to create art and
discover different ways to make it happen enormously contribute to their cognitive, personal, and
social development. While lesson plans where educators ask exactly what they want students to
do and how it must be done, decreases their ability to use creativity and to solve problems. Free
and modified choice based teaching benefits instructors as well because Teachers learn to
reorganize stages of development at each studio center and support learning within each
particular medium (Douglas & Jaquith, 2009, pp. 10). Playing is another way through which
educators get to know more about each child needs. Meanwhile, playing easies childrens
learning since [it] allows for independent exploration and creates avenues to see things in fresh
ways, to discover, and to invent (Szekely, 2011, pp. 64).
As a teacher, I would like to create a curriculum based on free and modified lesson plans
for my future art students, especially young children, because I want them to be inquisitive and
creative. I want them to experiment with different ideas and materials, and to know that they are
unique and that neither their ideas nor their outcomes must be identical or similar to others for
them to feel accepted or to be right. I want them to feel free to create and to play and enjoy
anything they are working with.

References:
Douglas, K. M., & Jaquith, D. B. (2009). Engaging learning though artmaking: Choice-based
art education in the classroom. New Yourk, N.Y: Teachers College Press.
Szekely, G. (2011). Testing the world through play and art. In D. B. Jaquith & N. E. Hathaway
(Eds.), The learner diredted classroom: Developing creative thinking skills through art
(pp. 64-76). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.