This book brings Arts Education sharply into focus as a meaningful, learning experience for children of pre-school and primary age (3-11 years).
teacher tIp Showing clips of television dance competitions such as 'So YouThink You Can Dance' or music videos such as Justin Timberlake's 'Can't Stop the ...
First Published in 2000. This book reasserts the place of the arts - dance, drama, music and the visual arts - in the primary school curriculum at Reception and Key Stages 1 and 2.
Many children in primary schools who are defined as having special needs have difficulties in the acquisition and development of literacy skills. Teachers face the dilemma of how to achieve...
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This key text will provide primary trainee teachers with subject knowledge, expert advice and guidance along with practical solutions that are necessary to offer children the best possible experiences in art, craft and design, to ensure ...
Backed by research and evidence and complete with images and descriptions of artworks, this guide is ideal for helping develop a whole-school arts curriculum to enrich learning and raise attainment in all subject areas.
The book also takes on the current thorny issue of assessment, recording and reporting, offering strategies for ways of responding to children's work, and suggestions for accumulating evidence on which to base assessment.
The book first explores the underpinning philosophy and pedagogy of teaching and learning art, including why we teach it; planning and assessment; and teaching and support strategies.
If working on flowers, they need real ones to look at, touch and smell, as did Monet and O'Keeffe. No one else can possibly have the artist's own inspirations and ideas, let alone skills and knowledge, so the practice of copying their ...
To develop the children's way of looking at works of art by helping them: (a) to consider what the work of art is ... To develop the children's own artistic expression through gaining an understanding of art as a means of communication.