ART 102 - Arts for Elementary Education

1. Provide a dynamic productive teaching experience
   1. Choose a creative project that will require problem solving
   2. Discuss the art elements that you will use
   3. Plan a one-hour session
   4. Motivate by relating to known artists
   5. Give clear directions; provide direction, not dictation
   6. Emphasize the process, not the product
   7. Show examples of the project
   8. Peer, guided critique of teaching performance
2. Have the class clean up
3. Display the finished work
4. Define the visual elements of art
5. List the artistic skills children should develop
6. Explain personal fulfillment through art.
7. Develop an appreciation for the role of art in society
8. Develop an appreciation for our common artistic heritage
9. Define media available for children’s use
10. Suggest creative ways to use each medium.
11. Identify arts of various cultures
12. Identify one dozen major artists and their technqiues
13. Relate artists to teaching assignments
14. Explore an artist and that artist’s work
    1. Research that artist
    2. Report to class on that artist and artist’s work
15. Record all class projects in idea book showing tools, techniques and motivation of teaching concepts
16. Read and annotate assigned materials