My personal educational philosophy combines constructivism and student-centered instructional approaches into a choice-driven learning approach. Choice-based learning has shown to be the most effective approach for art education because it combines components of both constructivism and student-centered learning practices and allows the students to act as a real artists (Aprill, 2006). A choice-based program can enable students to work as a real artist with real art problems and choices (Hathaway, 2008).

It is my belief that students should be able to construct new knowledge based on what they already know because it allows them to create strong individual skills rather than just regurgitating information from the teacher. Information is useless to my students unless they are able to process ideas and understand how these ideas are meaningful to them.

A choice-driven learning approach in the classroom allows me to deliver instruction that can expand students minds and nurturing their self-creativity. Students who are confined to just writing research papers and reciting lectures are not exploring their personal understanding of how they perceive the world around them.

Students should be able to think critically as a real artist and to understand that there are many ways to solve a problem. The research that was conducted by me for my master's project centered around the need for supplementary course work in art.