I agree with you that the answer tends to lie somewhere in the middle.
As a teacher, you need to have a bag of tricks to pull from that will
help you adapt to different situations.
I think you are doing
the right thing with your 8th graders....you have to pull back in your
situation or there will be chaos. Add to that they are itching to go to
HS and may have mentally checked out already.
I do agree that
there needs to be some objectivist structure in the art room. I have
teachers in my building who tell their students that art is about
feeling and expression. In those instances I counter that before you
write the great American novel, you have to have a certain level of
mastery of the English language. Creativity comes after you have enough
technical competence to play with and elaborate your ideas. That
competence and experience looks different at kindergarten than it does
in 5th grade, to be sure...
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