About my classes
In Visual Art & Design class, we will discover how art and design affects our lives and how it enhances our world. Involvement in the arts is associated with gains in math, reading, cognitive ability, critical thinking, and verbal skills. Arts learning can also improve motivation, concentration, confidence, and teamwork.
While I don’t expect every student to become professional artists, I do expect them to give their full cooperation and effort, be on their best behavior and participate in class discussions. Students can expect to try new techniques, learn about new concepts and terminology; they will also get a little dirty from time to time. Sometimes kids will create a masterpiece and sometimes a "disasterpiece" but through the process they become more comfortable expressing themselves and getting acquainted to the opportunities that visual art and design can take them.
In Visual Art & Design class, we will discover how art and design affects our lives and how it enhances our world. Involvement in the arts is associated with gains in math, reading, cognitive ability, critical thinking, and verbal skills. Arts learning can also improve motivation, concentration, confidence, and teamwork.
While I don’t expect every student to become professional artists, I do expect them to give their full cooperation and effort, be on their best behavior and participate in class discussions. Students can expect to try new techniques, learn about new concepts and terminology; they will also get a little dirty from time to time. Sometimes kids will create a masterpiece and sometimes a "disasterpiece" but through the process they become more comfortable expressing themselves and getting acquainted to the opportunities that visual art and design can take them.
About me
I have been a visual art & design teacher in the Wilmington Public Schools for a really long time.
As I was always drawing and designing since I could first hold a crayon, I knew that some kind of art career was my destiny. Trained as a professional graphic designer/commercial artist, I could not sit still in an advertising agency and needed to get moving. I found my niche in public education working with your kids. In addition to teaching art, I run the art club and oversee the middle school yearbook. There is never a dull moment at the middle school. It is alive with energetic kids where there is always something exciting happening. Middle school is where I belong. I get to work with great kids, creating fabulous art and by doing so I never really have to fully grow up. I also hold licensure in K-12 visual arts, supervisor/director and principal. I welcome you to contact me at anytime.
Neal Roberts
Wilmington Middle School
25 Carter Lane
Wilmington, MA 01887
978-694-6080 x3470
[email protected]
I have been a visual art & design teacher in the Wilmington Public Schools for a really long time.
As I was always drawing and designing since I could first hold a crayon, I knew that some kind of art career was my destiny. Trained as a professional graphic designer/commercial artist, I could not sit still in an advertising agency and needed to get moving. I found my niche in public education working with your kids. In addition to teaching art, I run the art club and oversee the middle school yearbook. There is never a dull moment at the middle school. It is alive with energetic kids where there is always something exciting happening. Middle school is where I belong. I get to work with great kids, creating fabulous art and by doing so I never really have to fully grow up. I also hold licensure in K-12 visual arts, supervisor/director and principal. I welcome you to contact me at anytime.
Neal Roberts
Wilmington Middle School
25 Carter Lane
Wilmington, MA 01887
978-694-6080 x3470
[email protected]