Asset & Art-based Teach, B-8

Catalog description

Asset & Art-based Teach, Birth-8: This course focuses on Asset and Arts-based teaching, Birth to Age 8. It covers the role of children's inherent and inherited (cultural/linguistic) capacities and strengths in designing effective and impactful curriculum, and early education approaches that emphasize the importance of nurturing children's unique talents and creative processes. Students will analyze the relationship between artistic engagement/behaviors and all domains of development, as well as how the Arts can be used to design culturally sustaining, student-centered, multimodal, interdisciplinary early learning experiences.