TEACHERS WRITING GRANTS PROPOSALS FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Writing grants can be really tough, especially right now with budget cuts being the overall theme in education these days. Further, the arts are often the first thing on the chopping block. if you are a teacher, principle, or otherwise involved in education here are some things to think about:

Depending on your school, the arts may have been stripped from the learning curriculum altogether, you may have to write up the grant as an after school program or a developement enrichment program. The developement program must be age if possible. Follow the stages of developement while writing the grant. Here's some benefit of photography...

- Development of fine motor skills.

- Spacial perception, distance, and shape recognition.

- Learning colors

- Cognitive developement and problem solving skills.
(operating the camera and understanding settings vs situations)

- Creating a healthy couriousity of nature, science, and culture.
(subject matter: emphasize photography as another way of learning it)

- Health and wellness... walking, exploring, exercise!!!

- Reading and writing skills... concurrent essays.

- History... Field trips to local historical places.

- Self esteem... Nothing says instant gratification like digital photos!

- Computer training... a wonderful way to augment computer lessons.

- A sense of community envolvement... have them make a newspaper.

- Socialization is encourage in many of these.

- Math... converting from megapixels to lines of resolution, DPI, and

other elements of photography that requires the use of numbers.

- Technology... digital photography is evolving rapidly.

These are just a few ideas in various ranges of age and developement. There's lots of other ways to work digital photography into the form of a grant proposal. I tried to include all the basics of the current curriculum... Social Studies, Math, Reading, Writing, ect. Some principles and administrators are great at writing grants, others my need teachers to help or even write the proposals. Some districts
even leave this up to the teachers for the most part. feel free to print and use anything you see on this website, but try to mention us when possible :)

TEACHERS can visit CamerasForKids.Info to learn more