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    I gathered from my group discussion that it's very important for art teachers to focus on contemporary issues. By doing this, the teacher must be a good listener to their students, in order to know what is contemporary to them, where they live, and their age groups. This way a teacher will not only keep their students's attentions, but they will also be offering artistic methods that can be applied to real life situations and problem solving. For example, Dartes allowed his students to lead lessons on what they thought to be imporant social issues. This way, the students remained engaged in the class room activity, and they were given the oportunity to try to solve or atleast address what they thought to be truely important. Thus, the students became the teacher, and the teacher became the student, which truly freed the students to learn.