Amy Ruopp Townsend Hall 109 LTC 4240 Art

Amy Ruopp Townsend Hall 109 LTC 4240 – Art for Children

How do children learn? • • • Creative Play Experimentation-try and try again, reinvent Wondering, discovery, imagination etc Multimodal investigations Young children make meaning from meaningful play.

What is ART anyway? • How do you make creative decisions every day? • How can we broaden our definition of Art to include all these juicy ideas from the last page? • Art is any act which is meaning making through meaningful making. Its is about process.

Blackboard: http: //courses. missouri. edu Weebly: http: //artforchildrenfs 15 mu. weebly. com

The foci of this course will center on teaching methods and strategies relating to art, which are appropriate for elementary students K-6. Students in this class will explore studio thinking through media exploration and material related visual art education experiences.

Required Text/Sources • • • Mizzou Media Custom Publishing Booklet for LTC 4240 Art for Children-Elementary-Sections 1, 2, & 3 SP 2013 available at University Bookstore Pink, D. (2005). A whole new mind. New York, NY: Riverhead. Selected reviews, examples, videos provided during class time or on the LTC 4240 Blackboard or Weebly course website.

COURSE ASSIGNMENTS & EXPECTATIONS

Course Assignments • Art Field Experience – Weebly Reflections – Common Core Museum Activity • Technology – Popplet Group Work – Video/i. Movie – Weebly Portfolio: Studio Experiences and Reflections • A Child’s Drawing Analysis Research Paper • Art Unit with Lesson Plans

Assignment Points: • Weebly Reflections • Common Core Museum Activity • Popplet Group Work • • • 40 pts. 25 pts. /movie trailer project 60 pts. Weebly Portfolio 100 pts. A Child’s Drawing Analysis Research Paper 60 pts. Art Unit with Lesson Plans 135 pts. Attendance, Class Participation, Professionalism 60 pts.

- Please stay on top of due dates and assignment expectations by checking weebly and reviewing the syllabus/course outline, and daily agenda. While the syllabus may say tentative schedule, I will let you know clearly if things change. Otherwise, ASSUME the dates are as written in the course outline. - Please let me know in advance if you know you will be absent. If you are ill an email is fine. Check the weebly site for missed content and see me as soon as possible if clarification is required. I will not come after you. - Please arrive on time . - Sign yourself in by initialing by your name each class. This will be on a clip board upfront. -If you find yourself overwhelmed or lost, do not wait until the day before something is due to talk with me. - • Readings: We may not always discuss during class; students should cite in studio reflections or in development paper.

Art Field Experience – Weebly Reflections: Elementary art and classroom observations in assigned field experience location (outside of class) – Common Core Museum Activity: Museum field trip during class time to a site TBA. (may do a virtual museum trip…. )

Popplet Group Work Students will work with peers in order to create a digital graphic organizer to present to classmates, which will synthesize one of the four instructional units: • • Unit 1: Identity Unit 2: Relationships Unit 3: Stories Unit 4: Celebrations

/Movie Trailer This collaborative group project gives students the opportunity to integrate music, literacy, drama, and the arts into one synthesized video. Students will be working on this assignment outside of and inside class in the art and possibly music courses during weeks six through eight. This assignment really weaves different modes of thinking and expressing into one package.

Weebly Portfolio Students will initiate and utilize a Weebly website as personal portfolio to hold studio images and reflections as well as additional coursework. This is a professional vessel you can use for future interviews. Craft it well.

A Child’s Drawing Analysis Research Paper This is a qualitative research project on child artistic development whereby students analyze and reflect deeply on one child’s drawing. Please see syllabus, Weebly, and Course Outline for details.

Art Unit with Lesson Plans Students will create one lesson plan with elementary learners in mind that integrates art, literacy, and one additional content area. To practice getting used to Mo. PTA format, we will use their format.

Review Weebly for Daily Agenda, Course Outline, and Syllabus: http: //artforchildrenfs 15 mu. weebly. com

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