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Nov 26, 2024
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AE 3263 - Methods of Art Education, K-12 Part I
Credits: 3
Field experience hours: 100 clock hours in a public or private school setting. This studio course provides students the opportunity to synthesize their learning before going into the field as a student teacher. This methods class puts theory and planning into practice. Students will participate in a fieldwork practicum in this course and author and instruct standards-based units that effectively combine their practice as artists, their knowledge as educators, and their Liberal Arts courses. Students will apply the elements of curriculum design, lesson/unit plans, accommodations, modifications, and assessment strategies as part of their own action research in the field. Students model and demonstrate the skills intrinsic to the lesson, participate in the process, and create the art product resulting from the lesson objectives. Students will understand what it means to be part of a professional learning environment, based on common inquiry, personal reflections, and peer feedback. Research and investigations of student diversity, multicultural objectives, learning styles, and exceptionality are incorporated into practical applications. Upon successful completion of this course, students will develop a professional portfolio that demonstrates findings of their research as it relates to their teaching philosophy, methods, and strategies for developing art programs for the K-12 student, instructional objectives, lesson, and unit plans using a variety of media, and personal reflection based on classroom practice.
Prerequisites: AE 3220 - Teaching in a Multicultural Environment ; AE 3240 - Reading in the Content Area ; must be an Art Education major. This course is taken the term directly prior to Student Teaching.
Notes: (Formerly AE 3261 Methods of Art Education, K-12 Part I; 2 credits each)
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Students learn K-12 art content, central concepts, tools of inquiry, appropriate evidence-based instructional practices and specialized character of the visual arts being taught.
- Students will learn K-12 lessons that reflect the interconnectedness of content areas/disciplines.
- Students learn how to make instruction and content relevant to students and take actions to connect students’ background and contextual knowledge with new information being taught.
- Students will learn strategies foster a predictable learning environment in the classroom in which each student has a positive, nurturing relationship with caring adults and peers.
- Students will learn how to demonstrate a commitment to and respect for diversity, while working toward common goals as a community and as a country.
- Students will learn how to engage students as individuals with unique interests and strengths.
- Students will learn how to provide proactive, clear and constructive feedback to families about student progress and work collaboratively with the families and significant adults in the lives of their students.
- Students will learn current K-12 developmental science, the ways in which learning takes place and the appropriate levels of intellectual, social and emotional development of their students.
- Students learn how to plan and consistently deliver instruction that draws on results of student assessments, is aligned to academic standards and advances students’ level of content knowledge and skills.
- Students will learn to establish and communicate high expectations for all K-12 students and plan instruction that helps students develop critical-thinking and problem solving skills.
- Students will learn how to provide K-12 students with opportunities to work in teams and develop leadership qualities.
- Students will learn to communicate effectively, making learning objectives clear and providing appropriate models of language for K-12.
- Students will learn appropriate methods to assess what each K-12 student has learned, including formal and informal assessments, and use results to plan further instruction.
- Students will learn how to analyze K-12 student learning, development and growth and apply what they learn to improve their practice.
- Students will learn how to link professional growth to their professional goals.
- Students will learn to respond to a complex, dynamic environment.
- Students will learn high ethical standards in the teaching profession.
Required Textbooks:
Rethinking Curriculum in Art - ISBN: 9780871926920
Teaching Meaning in Artmaking - ISBN: 9780871925831
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