I am a first-year Art teacher, and I need your help. I teach K-8 and I see each class once per week for 40 minutes. So far, I have been doing random lesson plans for the kids. Should I be following a more organized curriculum? If so, what are some suggestions? There is a steep learning curve for me this year!!
I appreciate ANY comments or suggestions, about anything!!
>Hello Everyone--
>
>I am a first-year Art teacher, and I need your help.
>I teach K-8 and I see each class once per week for 40
>minutes. So far, I have been doing random lesson
>plans for the kids. Should I be following a more
>organized curriculum? If so, what are some
>suggestions? There is a steep learning curve for me
>this year!!
>
>I appreciate ANY comments or suggestions, about
>anything!!
>
>Sarah
Date Posted:18:15:07 04/10/07 Tue
>
First year teacher,
I have had similar situations for 18 years. I have developed my own lessons using the core content from my school district. These lessons are sometimes one or two class periods long with a few that last longer. I like to have longer lessons to enable the kids to really put time and effort into these art projects. I tie most of these together as units that include art history and assessment. My exception for this is when we are doing clay. For storage purposes I do this lesson by the day. Example: Tuesday classes do clay and no one else until I have fired their work and it has gone home.
I am involved in a long project to improve my assessment and teaching for such short contact time with the students so any other suggestions for the time starved let me know. Thanks
Hello Everyone--
>
>I am a first-year Art teacher, and I need your help.
>I teach K-8 and I see each class once per week for 40
>minutes. So far, I have been doing random lesson
>plans for the kids. Should I be following a more
>organized curriculum? If so, what are some
>suggestions? There is a steep learning curve for me
>this year!!
>
>I appreciate ANY comments or suggestions, about
>anything!!
>
>Sarah
Date Posted:01:11:49 06/19/09 Fri
i think you should start with some easy cartoons for the young ones and for tha yr 8s try something like read a goosebumps book or something and get them to draw a picture of there fav situation.
