May be purchased by art teachers and school principals.

Kindergarten is different, and we know it! Only Explorations in Art combines a solid foundation in how to use tools and materials with the delight of exploring materials, developing skills and inventing new ways to create. The Teacher's Edition includes: * The critical classroom management techniques that make all the difference in ensuring a successful lesson. * Images of artwork and quotations from students * Interesting facts about tools and art, such as the history of crayons or scissors. * Teaching Tips and Variations/Extensions that include support on safety, differentiated instruction, classroom management, observation and assessment tips, and ways to include the classroom teacher. Each two-page spread in the Teacher's Edition includes: * Lesson: Each Big Book lesson begins with art images, and questions to encourage exploration. * Photos and Illustrations: Photographs and illustrations illustrate teacher technique, classroom seating, students at work, and other helpful content. * Student Artwork: Examples of student artwork and quotations are included throughout. * Assessment: Point-of-use assessment criteria is included for each lesson. The assessment criteria always relates to the lesson objectives. * Studio Exploration: Each Big Book lesson ends with a Studio Exploration. Clear, illustrated examples and directions help children explore, while ensuring an opportunity for individual expression and problem solving. * Variations/Extensions: Variations/Extensions are included with each lesson. Here the suggestion of using warm colors for cutting and cool colors for the background incorporates a color concept into this lesson on cutting. * Scissors History: The Teacher's Edition includes interesting facts for teachers to share with students, including the fact that many consider that Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. * Teaching Tips: Teaching Tips include safety tips; ways to challenge and engage students; support fordifferentiated instruction; classroom management tips, such as giving a fair warning to children before collecting the scissors; games; and ways to include the classroom teacher. * Professional Development: The program includes built-in professional development, including this quotation from an early childhood expert, "Learning to use scissors is one of the important ego-building achievements of early childhood. Children discover that scissors give them instant power to make changes in paperand other materials." Claire Cherry, Creative Art for the Developing Child * Lesson Resources: Children's Trade Books are recommended for each lesson.

This comprehensive, up-to-date art methods text presents fundamental theories, principles, creative approaches, and resources for art teaching in elementary through middle school.

The perennial bestseller—now in a new edition Authoritative and practical, this comprehensive guide offers everything a teacher needs to know for conducting an effective art instruction and appreciation program. The Third Edition of The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools includes a complete update on public-relations guidelines, and reference material examples. The revised edition also features many new projects, an update on current projects and includes an explanation of the hot topic amongst art educators, Teaching Artistic Behavior (TAB/choice). Choice-based art education is reflected in the authors’ discussion of teaching in mixed-media, ceramics, photography, sculpture, and art history. More than 100 creative art projects, from drawing to digital media Offers teaching tools, tips, and multicultural curriculum resources Includes new material on logical ways to encourage individual and personal solutions to a problem Gives teachers more latitude as to how individuality is suggested in a lesson This is an invaluable compendium for art educators and classroom teachers alike.