Import Test

In teaching beginning drawing, I am partial to a two prong approach. The first is to sharpen the student's observational skills through presenting a series of exercises that deal with drawing perspective from a distance along with additional drawing of hand-held objects that are  interpretations of form from close up. All of this is basic to their understanding of the history of visual vocabulary provided by previous artists.

The second approach is to generate discussions about the illusionary power of the 2d image. I exhibit artists who have challenged the world about image and illusion.

The biggest concern, of course, in educating students in any discipline is to develop their skills of problem solving.  Students rarely understand that that is the goal of an education.  Based on their past school experiences, they usually think they are in classes to master information and polish technique.  Regardless of the field, most teachers find that they have to realign the students goals with the goals of education and that means teaching them to think, rather than just to do.  

In art, that translates into problem solving skills with technique, the expansion of their ability to use the formal qualities effectively, and a realization that art is about the idea as much as it is about the thing.  I don't think this is so much different than math or psychology, but I tend to take a global approach to the world.