2023 Workshop Talk | | Art & Music
Summary
Fourteen years ago I began to teach art at a Christian classical school. One night while I was sleeping (True Story!), I sat straight up in bed in response to a dream where a parent asked me, “So what does it mean to teach art Christianly and classically?” My shock was so intense at that moment because I knew that I had no response that would be adequate or even coherent. “I know what it means to be a Christian, but how do I teach art Christianly?” I was unacquainted with classical education then, so I was significantly clueless about what it meant to teach art classically. Over the last fourteen years, it has been a quest of mine to develop a meaningful response to that question. I’m not there yet, but I’m a lot farther down the road than I was 14 years ago. This session will trace some lessons learned along the way and perhaps even be encouraging to those who are just starting out on the trail, or those who have been on the trail for a while.
Speaker
Scott Maynard is both the K-12 art teacher and the Director of Fine Arts at Faith Christian School in Roanoke, Virginia. During his tenure at Faith, Scott has made significant adjustments in his teaching methods as he came to a deeper understanding of how art instruction could better reflect a distinctly Christian classical approach. Scott believes his most recent adjustments have had the greatest impact on his students and he is eager to share his journey with other teachers and administrators. Scott believes his approach can help inform teachers in other disciplines. Scott’s “Slow Looking” course is a required component of Faith’s teacher training program. Scott has taught art K-5 for four years at Lansing Christian School in Lansing, Michigan, in addition to his fourteen years at Faith Christian School. He has an Associates Degree in Commercial Art from Oakland Community College in West Bloomfield, Michigan, as well as a B.S. in Art Education from Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. Scott is married to the love of his life, Deborah, and they have six children who are mostly grown. He loves to teach art and to create artwork of his own.
smaynard@fcsva.com
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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