Welcome to Art Class! I would like to take a minute to introduce myself and also tell you what to expect this year. My name is Mr. Cox and I am the new elementary art teacher. Your students will have art once a week for 40 minutes, rather than once a month for 20 minutes. You can see some of their art work right here on this website. I graduated from WIU in 2006, with a degree in Art Education K-12, and will be teaching everyday from 8-11:30. My goal for this year is to improve student learning by 1. Encouraging student creativity. 2. Encouraging students participation in the classroom. 3. Building student excitement about learning through art. I plan on doing this by working with other faculty to build lessons that include but also reinforce what they are learning in their classrooms. Students learn in many different ways and through art we can reach out to many more students, find their strengths and help them become life long learners. Please feel free to email me if you have questions. I also encourage you to add suggestions to my blog, send me art work from your students via email and participate in art activities with your students. Art doesn't have to be "good" to be FUN!!!