Full Description
In this student-centered book, Debrah C. Sickler-Voigt provides proven tips and innovative methods for teaching, managing, and assessing all aspects of art instruction and student learning in today's diversified educational settings, from pre-K through high school. Up-to-date with the current National Visual Arts Standards, this text offers best practices in art education, and explains current theories and assessment models for art instruction.
Using examples of students' visually stunning artworks to illustrate what children can achieve through quality art instruction and practical lesson planning, Teaching and Learning in Art Education explores essential and emerging topics such as:
managing the classroom in art education;
artistic development from early childhood through adolescence;
catering towards learners with a diversity of abilities;
integrating technology into the art field; and
understanding drawing, painting, paper arts, sculpture, and textiles in context.
Alongside a companion website offering Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, assessments, and tutorials to provide ready-to-use-resources for professors and students, this engaging text will assist teachers in challenging and inspiring students to think creatively, problem-solve, and develop relevant skills as lifelong learners in the art education sector.
Contents
1. Teaching and Learning in Art Education: An Overview, 2. The Choice-Based Art Curriculum, 3. Assessment and Evaluation for the Visual Arts, 4. Classroom Management in the Visual Arts, 5. Artistic Development: Early Childhood Through Adolescence, 6. Diversified Learners, 7. Aesthetics: Art's Meaning, 8. Art Criticism: Making Informed Judgments, 9. Art History: Inclusive Approaches, 10. Visual Culture: Wiser Ways of Seeing and Knowing, 11. Drawing, 12. Painting, 13. Paper Arts, Printmaking and Book Arts, 14. Sculpture, 15. Clay and Moasaics, 16. Textiles and Puppets, 17. The Built Environment, 18. Technology: Media Arts, Photography, and Graphics, 19. Arts Advocacy, 20. Making the Most of Your Teaching Career
