Contemporary Approaches to Art Education

In one of my other classes, I am pretty much looking at doing lessons from the beginning, meaning that it is being approached as if I have never done it before. Not gonna lie, it's a lot harder to think as if I've never taken the two classes that follow this one. I keep including methods and ideas that are from classes that come afterwards and I end up overdoing my projects. Going way too in to detail about particular aspects of a lesson and in turn doing way more work than is required of me. I guess it is only practice for me, but it's frustrating because they're just unnecessary and therefore go unlooked at.

On a different note however, I find it highly interesting how the administration and powers at hand have altered the course content. Contemporary approaches has replaced Intro to Art Ed and it's content, from what I've gathered, is completely different. I'm excited that I get to look at art education from the eyes of say a museum administrator or from the point of view of someone who works in a community based program. The field requirements have us in a non-academic setting looking at how art education takes place. My placement has been at the Boys and Girls Club and needless to say, it is WAY different than being in a high school art class, which I have also been doing for this past semester. Seeing all these different ways to approach a career path after I receive my degree id encouraging. I'm glad that I'm not solely locked into teaching in a school classroom even though I am interested in it. I guess my first goal though, is to see how to approach teaching in another country. That would be cool :)