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Easy ways to infuse art into classroom learning
One of the most popular books in the Jossey–Bass Teacher series is now available in a completely updated and expanded version. With more than 110 creative art projects in varied types of media––from drawing to digital––plus tips, tools, and curricular resources, The Art Teacher′s Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools offers everything a teacher needs to know to present an effective arts education program. Classroom teachers who want to include art projects as part of the content curriculum and art teachers looking for new ideas will all find fresh inspiration in this exciting new edition. It features numerous new projects and draws on multicultural traditions, includes reproducible pages, and provides detailed instructions with illustrations, links to content learning, and modifications for different ages. Authoritative, practical, and user–friendly, this comprehensive guide is an invaluable addition to every K–8 teacher′s basic classroom tools.
One of the most popular books in the Jossey–Bass Teacher series is now available in a completely updated and expanded version. With more than 110 creative art projects in varied types of media––from drawing to digital––plus tips, tools, and curricular resources, The Art Teacher′s Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools offers everything a teacher needs to know to present an effective arts education program. Classroom teachers who want to include art projects as part of the content curriculum and art teachers looking for new ideas will all find fresh inspiration in this exciting new edition. It features numerous new projects and draws on multicultural traditions, includes reproducible pages, and provides detailed instructions with illustrations, links to content learning, and modifications for different ages. Authoritative, practical, and user–friendly, this comprehensive guide is an invaluable addition to every K–8 teacher′s basic classroom tools.
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This long–awaited second edition, The Art Teacher′s Survival Guide, offers K–8 art specialists and classroom teachers everything needed to conduct an effective arts education program. Comprehensive, practical, and completely updated, the book provides guidance, tools, and resources on teaching and appreciating the visual arts—including production, art history, art criticism, and aesthetics. It also includes more than 100 creative art projects in varied media, many new to this edition.
Special features of this edition include: information on the characteristics, skills, and understandings to be expected of students by grade level as aligned with the National Visual Arts Standards; suggestions on appropriate art activities by grade level, especially for enriching content learning and including adaptations for children with special needs; an expanded section on art lesson planning, with ideas for integrating arts activities into lessons across the curricula; detailed art history timelines with links to language arts, math, science, and other content areas; a multicultural art section featuring Chinese calligraphy, Mexican Day of the Dead altars, and similar projects from diverse cultures; new projects in watercolor, printmaking, nature illustration, and digital media; and updated resource handouts. Each project focuses on appropriate design elements and principles and includes illustrations along with detailed directions for both teacher and student. A lay–flat binding makes the projects easily reproducible.The book′s twelve chapters cover a broad range of topics, including:
Let′s Teach Art
What We Teach
Fun with Art History and Appreciation
Paper
Drawing with Pencil, Pastels, Crayons, and Markers
Painting
Printmaking
Multicultural Art
Ceramics
Three–Dimensional Design
Architecture, the Built Environment
Digital Media, Photography, and Video
The book is richly illustrated throughout with handsome black and white reproductions of fine art, folk art, and drawings.
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In all our "teacher-talk" about our various purposes for giving art instruction, we know why students so often look forward to their art classes. Read the first page
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In all our "teacher-talk" about our various purposes for giving art instruction, we know why students so often look forward to their art classes. Read the first page
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96 of 96 people found the following review helpful
An Excellent Art Teacher's Reference
29 May 2001
Format:Paperback
As a first year art teacher in a public school setting, I had to figure out lots of strategies & purchased many reference books. None of them have been as useful as A Survival Kit for the Elementary/Middle School Art Teacher. Ms.Hume has obviously "been there." Her presentation of tips, ideas, & multicultural lessons are clear, orderly, & logical. Each lesson includes a page for the teacher (vocabulary, preperation, & alternative projects) as well as one for the student (materials, & directions). There is a section on suggestions for teaching each grade level & a list of themes based on seasons of the year rather than holidays (Bravo Helen). Hume also includes great strategies for writing lesson plans & managing classrooms. I can see this book becoming one of my most treasured (and used) resources.
70 of 76 people found the following review helpful
Lack of vision
12 Oct 2006
Format:Paperback
This art instruction manual is aptly titled as it is about "survival", offering hassle-free recipe- driven art projects for masses of students. If you were a public school student in the last 40 years the projects will look depressingly familiar--the obligatory construction paper mask, the linoleum block print, the paper mache' animal. What is lacking is an overriding vision of what students may achieve. The "goals" are largely stated by listing vocabulary words but the opportunities for real discovery are thin indeed. As an art teacher of 20 years, I would never rely on construction paper for collage as it is impossible to produce anything with richness from such flat uninteresting papers. The student block print examples show the medium at its least interesting with the images mostly being reverse outline, little exploration of shape or figure-ground reversal. Moreover, it is criminal that a book purporting to be about the development of the visual sense should have reproductions of such appalling quality. Some of them are clearly printing errors since all one can see are dark gray rectangles with a few hints of light. The student examples were grim and to me this is the book's greatest failing. The strength of an art instruction book to me usually lies in the student examples. Mona Brooks and Kaupelis (first name escapes me) produce inspiring books on the basis of their student work alone. On a positive note, the book is well- organized. It could possibly serve as a jumping off point to a teacher with experience and initiative, but for the most part it perpetuates the predictable, mind-numbing experience of the all-too typical 30 minute public school art block.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Great Art Ideas.
9 Mar 2002
Format:Paperback
I have several books from Helen Hume and this one is excellent for middle school the lessons are easy to follow and once you try them you will enjoy them. If you are interested in other Helen Hume book "the art teacher's book of list", is great and the Survival Kit for the Secondary School Art Teacher. They are all full of ideas and students have lots of fun.
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