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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

This Book Offers the Resource of Experience:

This book stands out as a resource for art teachers because it is more than just ideas and directions for projects and crafts. The author shares her experiences and lessons-learned from 25 years of teaching art. As a newly hired art teacher for a private school, charged with creating my own curriculum, this book has become my jewel.
Ms. Beal presents a clearly focused method for teaching art to children with specific information about the developmental stages and abilities of elementary-aged children.... more info

A good look at the basics of teaching art to children.:

This book focuses on introducing the basic art mediums (painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, clay, construction) for children ages 5 -10. The author emphasizes the importance of letting children work with these basic mediums repeatedly until they have gained mastery of the materials. Gradually they become more expressive in their work. The author encourages children to use their own life experience as a guide for making art; she discusses how to talk with children about their art, which is important to... more info

Wish I had read this 5 years ago.:

I have a college degree in Art and have always been told by family and friends that I should teach art. I never went into it because I always had a fear that I would squash the children's creativity. This book explains exactly how to develope creativity in children - as a teacher or parent. It is NOT the basics of what makes good art - so it is perfect for people who want to teach art and have an art background but no teaching background. It also can work very well for those without an art background as a... more info

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