Teaching Early Childhood and Elementary Art

Catalog description

Offered autumn and spring. Restricted to majors in Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, and Art Education. This is a general teaching methods course in visual art education. This course is designed to provide students with a fundamental understanding of the roles, values, classroom pedagogy, and current issues in P-8 visual art education; to investigate child development; to offer an introduction to content standards; and to examine a broad array of art education theories and practices. Students are introduced to available curriculum resources and will engage in academic service learning.