The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools

by Helen D. Hume

Easy ways to infuse art into classroom learning

One of the most popular books in the Jossey-Bass Teacher series is now available in a completely updated and expanded version. With more than 110 creative art projects in varied types of media--from drawing to digital--plus tips, tools, and curricular resources, The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools offers everything a teacher needs to know to present an effective arts education program. Classroom teachers who want to include art projects as part of the content curriculum and art teachers looking for new ideas will all find fresh inspiration in this exciting new edition. It features numerous new projects and draws on multicultural traditions, includes reproducible pages, and provides detailed instructions with illustrations, links to content learning, and modifications for different ages. Authoritative, practical, and user-friendly, this comprehensive guide is an invaluable addition to every K-8 teacher's basic classroom tools.

Genres: Teaching, Art, Nonfiction, Education

494 pages, Paperback

First published November 24, 2008

Reviews

[J. Boo]

Appalachian Bible College has a publicly accessible master list of the textbooks that they use in all their classes. This is a super-awesome idea and I can't think why I haven't seen this at other uni... oh, wait, it's probably either banned by institutions to steer money to their bookstores, or they're just too unorganized to come up with the list.

Anyway, the "Art Teacher's Survival Guide" was on the book list for several courses in elementary art instruction, the subject for which I have the least possible qualifications.

Also, basing this purely on a sample metric involving "venality" and "organization", if you're looking for a bible college in the Appalachians, I'd go with them.

[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I definitely found ideas that I can use with my classes. Very handy resource - wish there could have been more pictures.

[Diana Valdivia-Rodriguez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting book to read and learn about why teachers should use art in the elementary classroom.

[Laura Scherbing · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a good book with some good ideas!

[Jaime · Rating 4 out of 5]

Originally, I borrowed the book from the library and liked it enough that I bought it off Amazon.

This is one that I will always be going back to for suggestions. As an artist who never specifically went to college for teaching, I do some children programs etc and this is extremely helpful for some ideas and insight to the different age groups I deal with. I wish it had more drawing suggestions, but it does try to give ideas for many of the mediums.

[CML OSU]

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[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Same gripe as most other reviews- the lack of visual examples is the biggest hinderence