Art for the Elementary Educator: A Teacher's Workbook for Writing Integrated Lessons
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 254
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Pages: 256
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The workbook, Art for the Elementary Educator, is an excellent resource for education and art majors at the college level, current art and classroom teachers, and home-schooled students. It encompasses art education concepts and ideas with strategies for writing integrated lessons for grades kindergarten through fifth grade.
This workbook is not the ‘traditional’ academic textbook. It is written as an engaging narrative with a fictitious principal, art teacher and classroom teachers. It chronicles twenty school days with examples of integrated lessons, student artwork, art techniques and original rhymes as a teaching tool.
The book’s interactive feature contains art pages for displaying photos of student artwork, art assignments and directions for the teacher to dabble in art making. The majority of articles and activities speaks to creativity, art styles, art criticism, art history, lesson planning, a thematic approach to study cultures, addresses stages of children’s art and features a copious amount of children’s artwork
Day One: Monday
Outer Space Adventure – Creativity in the Classroom
Day Two: Tuesday
An Integrated Approach – Geometric Super Robot
Day Three: Wednesday
Art Workshop on Art Education – Importance of Art Education
Connecting the Dots: Guideline for Integrating Art in Classroom Lessons
Day Four: Thursday
An Integrated Lesson – Under the Sea
Day Five: Friday
Through the Lens – Photography in the Elementary School Art and the Aesthetics of Technology
Day Six: Monday
A Thematic Approach for Teaching a Cultural Unit
American Roots: Native American Culture
Day Seven: Tuesday
An Integrated Lesson – What Time Is It? – Motivation Strategies
Day Eight: Wednesday
Art Workshop – Art Styles and Aesthetics
Day Nine: Thursday
Cultural Diversity in the Classroom – Symbols
Day Ten: Friday
Flower Garden – Collaboration
Day Eleven: Monday
Looking at Lowenfeld – Art Stages of Children’s Art
Day Twelve: Tuesday
Space and Time – Dinosaurs Lived a Long Time Ago
I’m Digging It… An Archaeological Dig
Day Thirteen: Wednesday
Art Workshop – Art Criticism: How to Talk About Art
Day Fourteen: Thursday
An Integrated Lesson – Storytelling Quilts
Teaching Strategies
Day Fifteen: Friday
Classroom Learning Centers Supporting Multiple Intelligences
Day Sixteen: Monday
Special Needs – Assumptions, Expectations, and Surprises
Day Seventeen: Tuesday
Personality Styles – What Style Are You?
Day Eighteen: Wednesday
Art Workshop – Integrating Disciplines –Examining Strategies
Day Nineteen: Thursday
Seasons – An Integrated Teaching Unit with Art Education Components
Day Twenty: Friday
An E-mail from Sharlene: Art Workshops: A Summary Welcome to the ADS Art Website, Finding Answers to Art Questions
Art Gallery:
Art History – Aesthetic Expressions Through Time
References
Photo Credits
Jeanette Wachtman is an art educator, author and artist. She received her Masters in Art Education from SUNY at Buffalo. After teaching over thirty years in the public sector, she retired and continues teaching Art Education in the School of Art and Design, for Kennesaw State University in Georgia. She has received numerous educational grants for developing original cultural programs for the elementary level and presented lectures on this topic at international, national and state at educational conferences for over twenty-five years. In addition, she has received numerous educational awards at national, state and local levels.