Grad School in a Box Set

Trolling FB this morning I found a link posted by an old friend of mine who usually has some interesting takes on things. Well, after I punched the button I was GOBSMACKED to discover my whole masters degree as interpreted by the Disney Studios! I spent two full years studying the golden mean and collecting images and information to fill two full three ring notebooks, and back then all I had was a typewriter and mimeo machine. Later, when I started teaching in different school systems I was able to add lesson plans to this ongoing notebook to cover just about every age. Basically all my teaching was around this 'rule' but another 'rule' was to make the kids discover it for themselves. I had lesson plans for every art principle all revolving around this natural relationship to math.

And ya know what, geometry was the only math that came to me without any fight. Of course I learned why too late for my math classes which ended with a second round of algebra and were avoided at all costs for the rest of my education. Bad me.






ANYway, when I retired from teaching in the school systems I handed over my vast series of notebooks to the daughter of a friend of mine who was just starting to teach art. What I wouldn't give for those back to re-visit! Of course this was all pre-internet, when resources were certainly more difficult to come by and you couldn't buy lesson plans pre-packaged. Oh well, I have my memories of accumulating that stuff over many years, keeping it organized and up to date, and then passing the baton onward.

I think art teachers these days double as the janitorial staff in most schools, they have become a vestigial organ and it's such a pity because in MY belief, the art teachers hold the keys to integrating all education. I wish the school boards could understand that.