Authoritative and practical, this comprehensive guide offers everything a teacher needs to know for conducting an effective art instruction and appreciation program. The Third Edition of The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools includes a complete update on public-relations guidelines, and reference material examples.

The revised edition also features many new projects, an update on current projects and includes an explanation of the hot topic amongst art educators, Teaching Artistic Behavior (TAB/choice). Choice-based art education is reflected in the authors' discussion of teaching in mixed-media, ceramics, photography, sculpture, and art history.

More than 100 creative art projects, from drawing to digital media
Offers teaching tools, tips, and multicultural curriculum resources
Includes new material on logical ways to encourage individual and personal solutions to a problem
Gives teachers more latitude as to how individuality is suggested in a lesson

This is an invaluable compendium for art educators and classroom teachers alike.

Auteur

HELEN D. HUME taught art at several levels for over 30 years in St. Louis, Missouri. She is an active member of the Missouri and National Art Education Associations, and the St. Louis Artists' Guild. Hume is the author of numerous books in art and art education, including first and second editions of The Art Teacher's Book of Lists and The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Secondary Schools. MARILYN PALMER was an art educator for 34 years in Parkway School District, St. Louis, Missouri. She taught art classes at the elementary level for 17 years. She later taught various art classes including Cultural Connections in middle school and Computer Graphics and Ceramics in high school where she also served as Department Chair and Regional Visual Arts Leader.

Texte du rabat
An invaluable compendium of resources for conducting an effective arts instruction and appreciation program The revised Third Edition of The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools offers art specialists and classroom teachers alike everything they need to teach visual arts to K-8 students. Comprehensive and practical, this book offers more than 100 creative art projects and multicultural curricular resources. Inside, you'll find guidance, tools, and resources on teaching and appreciating the visual artsincluding creating, presenting, responding, and connecting based on NCCAS (National Coalition for Core Art Standards). The ten chapters in this edition feature:

Two-and three-dimensional art projects in a spectrum of media
Updated background information and reproducible handouts such as Elements & Principles of Art
An overview of Choice-Based Art Education/Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB)
How to integrate visual art education into the mainstream classroom
Illustrations and detailed directions for both teachers and students "This new resource book incorporates a wide variety of original and engaging grade level lessons and projects designed around specific art concepts that integrate with many cultures and other subjects. Time saving pictures and examples, with added links to resources and current National Coalition for Core Art Standards, provide background information and context that help learning come alive for students, as they not only learn about art, but gain skills to become artists themselves."
Cassandra Collins, Musician and Fine Arts Chair of Parkway School District, 20012014, Adjunct Professor at Webster University, 2013 Missouri Outstanding Art Administrator of the Year Recipient "Throughout my career as an elementary art educator, I've had the opportunity to host several Student Teachers, and this book is the first reference I share with them. The information and guidance in this book are essential, a must have. I am so excited that there is now a third edition."
Rick Peterson, Editor of Show Me Art

Résumé
The perennial bestsellernow in a new edition

Authoritative and practical, this comprehensive guide offers everything a teacher needs to know for conducting an effective art instruction and appreciation program. The Third Edition of The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools includes a complete update on public-relations guidelines, and reference material examples.

More than 100 creative art projects, from drawing to digital media
Offers teaching tools, tips, and multicultural curriculum resources
Includes new material on logical ways to encourage individual and personal solutions to a problem
Gives teachers more latitude as to how individuality is suggested in a lesson
This is an invaluable compendium for art educators and classroom teachers alike.

Contenu

Chapter One: Let's Teach Art 1

Chapter Two: Day-To-Day Survival SkillsThe Nitty-Gritty 35

Chapter Three: Art History 63

Chapter Four: Drawing 85

Chapter Five: Painting 111

Chapter Six: Mixed Media 141

Chapter Seven: Multicultural Art 175

Chapter Eight: Ceramics 205

Chapter Nine: Sculpture 237

Chapter Ten: Computer Graphics and Digital Photography 261