AR 454 Materials and Methods of Teaching Art in P-5

Lab fee. Field experience is required. Students will study the unique dynamics of teaching and assessing a comprehensive arts education to Pre-K thru 5th grade level children. Students will examine how learning about art relates to adolescents perception, cognition, questioning, and investigation about art. Students will study multi-cultural approaches to teaching art. Students will study contextual art criticism. Students will learn how to find and develop art resources for the classroom. Students will learn how to use the integration of other subjects into art thinking and into the creation of art. Students will learn methods for introducing aesthetics in educational settings. Students will be able to develop age appropriate curriculum that is either media centered or curriculum that is theme centered that includes multiple forms of student evaluation and self-evaluation which allows for student growth and teacher reflection. Students understand methods and materials and the processes necessary to use them that are age-appropriate and safe for the classroom. Students will learn to gather classroom context to create lesson plans that build on student interests and aptitudes. Historical foundations of art education are addressed to understand ways that art has been presented in the classroom over time compared to multiple ways it is taught in classrooms today.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Admission to the Teacher Education Program