Visual Art and Play Pedagogy

Teacher of Fine Arts

A fine arts teacher plays a crucial role in aesthetic education and artistic development of students. They instruct learners in various forms of visual arts, nurture their sense of aesthetics, spatial thinking, imagination, and help them understand the surrounding world while cultivating relevant skills and abilities in the realm of visual arts.

Play-Based Educator (School and Preschool Education)

The primary activity of a play-based educator revolves around designing educational programs based on game methodologies. Professionals in this field assist regular teachers in adopting and implementing play-based approaches, evaluate the necessity and effectiveness of incorporating such methods into lessons, develop educational games, apply game-based techniques in remedial education, and organize business games and training sessions.

Play-based pedagogy will be implemented in preschool and elementary education as an elective option, potentially replacing some classical lesson formats partially.

Main Subjects:

• Painting;
• Computer technologies in professional activities;
• Computer graphics in applied fields;
• Decorative and applied arts;
• Self-development techniques;
• Basics of cultural and leisure activities;
• Techniques for organizing training activities;
• Computer games;
• Theater pedagogy;
• Techniques for organizing games.

Knowledge and Skills

Ability to develop various forms of instructional activities, apply teaching methods, techniques, and technologies, including information technologies; organizing and evaluating extracurricular activities for children (academic, play-based, labor-related, athletic, artistic, etc.), knowledge of methods and forms for organizing collective creative endeavors, excursions, trips, expeditions, and other events; mastery of integrating subjects to arrange developmental learning activities (research, project-based, group work, etc.); designing educational programs at different levels according to modern methodologies and technologies.

Career and Employment Opportunities

• Visual Arts Instructor
• Social and Cultural Activity Coordinator
• Specialist Creating Educational Programs Based on Gaming Methodologies
• Assistant Principal for Educational Work in Municipal Schools, Colleges, Lyceums, Private Schools
• Trainer in Educational Technologies

Practicum and Projects

• Regional Center for Identification, Support, and Development of Talents Among Youth "Sirius.Primorye"
• Federal Charitable Initiative "Game-Based Educator in Every Russian School" implemented by the Design and Technology Department of the Institute of Creative Industries (IKI) at VVSU, Startup: "Game-Based Programs in Schools"

Additional Information

Participation in educational programs "Sirius-Primorye," design hackathon, and other projects organized by the Design and Technology Department.