“What are five things that are really important that you hope your students learn from you as a teacher in this imagined teaching context in 2025?”

-I hope to help my students find themselves. Allow them to think about what they feel or how they view certain topics. I want them to explore their identity and how they define themselves. I want them to explore their family history. What do they believe in? What is of importance to them? How do they feel others view them? How do they view themselves?

-I hope my students learn about certain issues that are going on in the world, or even within their school and how they feel toward these problems. Do these problems effect them personally? Do they contribute to these problems? Is there anything that they can do to help alleviate these issues?

-I want to allow my students a new way to view the world. Let creativity take control. There are no boundaries or set rules within art. I want my students to have the freedom, and feel safe enough within my classroom, to explore the possibilities art offers. I want them to realize that art is a broad definition.

-However I still feel that it is important to teach my students the fundamentals of art, though allow them the freedom to ignore these rules.  I want them to understand the elements of art; line, color, texture, shape, value, form, and space, along with balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern, rhythm, and unity and how these elements work.

-Another important factor of art is its history, and I feel this is important to discuss and teach students. I want to discuss what use to be considered acceptable art and how the definition of art has evolved. I want them to discover an artist that they can relate to, from the past or present.