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Authors: Nancy Beal, Gloria Bley Miller
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

9 reviews
Sales Rank: 64724

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 0.7

ISBN: 0374527709
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.5044
EAN: 9780374527709

Publication Date: August 30, 2001
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
An inspiring and comprehensive guide to art education.

In this accessibly written guide for classroom and art teachers as well as parents, Nancy Beal shows how to release children's marvelous gifts of expression. Beal believes that children must first of all be comfortable with their materials. She focuses on six basic media: collage, drawing, painting, clay, printmaking, and construction. She gives practical consideration to all facets of a teacher's responsibility: how each material should be introduced; what supplies are best; how a classroom may be set up to support children's explorations; and how teachers may ask open-ed questions to stimulate personal and meaningful expression. Beal also discusses how to integrate art into social studies and how to make museum visits productive and fun. Each chapter includes a section specifically for parents on helping their children create art at home.

Beal has taught art to children for twenty-five years and is able to draw on a wealth of examples from her classroom. The Art of Teaching Art to Children is extensively illustrated with her students' art, visual proof of her gifts as an educator and art enthusiast.

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5 out of 5 stars

The Art of Teaching Art to Children: In School and at Home January 7, 2009
This is a good book for beginning art teachers and homeschoolers, or parents wanting to provide their children with creative experiences. This gives a no-nonsense and logical alternative to hurried, force-to-finish art programs. Unfortunately, being an art teacher in my particular school system, I'm expected to present the most information and experiences possible in a one-year period. We have a lot of student turnover and this program may not work as well as it does in a pretty stable school environment. This author advocates lengthy exploration of a few materials, spread throughout the year, until the students have gained a full-working knowledge and are themselves ready to move on.

4 out of 5 stars

A good book November 10, 2006
2 out of 5 found this review helpful

It is an inspiring book writen by a teacher who deeply respects children's ideas and knows how to stimulate their creativity. She focuses on six basic media (no new techniques).

4 out of 5 stars

A helpful book November 4, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

Going into my first year as an art teacher after many years of not working in the education field, I was nerved up and needed some inspiration and reinforcement of theories, ideas, and concepts I had learned in school so many years before. The book was very readable and enjoyable. The concepts were clear and the anecdotes were very real. The students really came to life and her encouragement and demand for true quality showed in the examples in the book.
The only drawback to this book was that the author obviously came from a school district with much funding and she was lucky enough to have her own art room to present her ideas and use her very creative time savers. As an "art on the cart" teacher in a district with very tight funding, many things did not directly translate. However, the ideas in the book have inspired me to develop time savers and short cuts all my own.
I have found myself flipping though the book several times and rereading sections about materials I am not as familiar with. This was one book that I am very glad to have purchased.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent! September 21, 2005
5 out of 7 found this review helpful

Easy to read with a lot of helpful hints. Straight forward approach including developmental stages.

5 out of 5 stars

Great Book August 10, 2005
6 out of 8 found this review helpful

This book made me think...the author has a wonderful way of viewing the art of teaching art. As a new art teacher, reading it has been very thought provoking and I am already applying some of her strategies in my class.

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