I do not want to get up on a soap box and complain about how the fine arts are misunderstood and disrespected, but I do believe that fine art teachers can teach many valuable skills to other teachers. Differentiation and classroom management are inherent parts of many fine arts classes. Students enter the room with varied levels of talent, ability and interest. In order to create a production or music, students need to work together to create it. This working together means all students participate and contribute regardless of talent or ability. Fine art rooms are filled with things to play with. These teachers must have strong classroom management skills in order for these rooms to not become chaos. There are many tricks or tips fine arts teachers can teach us about teaching all students. There are also many tricks and tips that reading teachers, special ed teachers and all teachers can teach us. I am always amazed at the amount of patience special ed and reading teachers must have.
I believe all teachers have ideas they can share with our profession, if we will watch and learn from them. Which teachers do you learn from? Do you skip the specials teachers?
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