EDUO 9840: Teaching Art to Children: Giving Teachers the Tools to Teach Fine Art

Course Introduction

Welcome to Teaching Art to Children. This course is designed to help classroom teachers give hands-on fine art lessons to their students. The intent is to give participants the skills to teach and impart to their students a love and understanding of the art produced by modern artists of the western world.
Required books for this class: (you will need access to these two)

• The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola; Putnam & Grosset
• Abuela by Arthur Dorros; Trumpet Club

Suggested books: You will find lots of wonderful books recommended throughout the course. Many of these delightful books may be available at your library. I have purchased many of my books from Amazon used at a very good price.

Grading Rubric

Exemplary	Acceptable	Unacceptable
Met and Exceeds Expectations A+ to A	Meets Expectations B+ to B	Needs Improvement, Must be resubmitted
Reflective, thoughtful ideas relevant to the assignment are clearly presented	Assignments present some relevant ideas and connections to the assignment	Few relevant ideas connected to the assignment, some ideas unclear
Very well organized	Is generally well organized	Shows little organization
Obvious attention to effort, detail and neatness	Some effort, attention to detail and neatness	Lack of effort, attention to detail and neatness
Artist’s style clearly evident	Some elements of artist’s style evident	Lacking evidence of artist’s style

Note: The instructor intends for you to create art in the style of the given artists, however, there is room for individual expression.

All materials in this section are for you to keep

Section 1 – a teaching outline showing the relationship between the online forum entries, the art activities, the readings and websites.

Section 2– Instructions for the Art Activities

Section 3 –Appendix and other helpful information

a) Glossary
b) Color terms
c) Art vocabulary
d) Bibliography

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