Welcome to ART 461 (Teaching Art in the Elementary School)

7:48am: For Wednesday, February 22
For Wednesday, February 22nd, please read Chapter 8 (Sculpture, Ceramics, and Other Three Dimensional Art Forms) from Children and their Art and post your reflective response here. For extra credit, you can also download and read Sculpture: Representational development in a three-dimensional medium.

Please do not forget to include your name with your entry so I can give you a grade!

2:23pm: For Monday, February 20
For Monday, February 20th, please read chapter 13 (Art History: Other times and places) from Children and their Art. Please write a reflective response for this chapter. For extra credit, you can also download and read Laurence Sipe's Using Picturebooks to Teach Art History, and post an entry.

Please do not forget to include your name with your entry so I can give you a grade!

7:59pm: For Monday, February 13
For Monday, February 13th, please read chapter 14 (Aesthetics: Philosophy in the Art Room) from Children and their Art and post your reflective response here. Please do not forget to include your name with your entry so I can give you a grade!

9:37pm: For Wednesday, February 8
For Wednesday, February 8th, please read chapter 4 (Children with Special Needs: Art for All Children) from Children and their Art and Behavior management: Principles and guidelines for art educators by Frank Susi. Please post your reflective response here.

Also, please do not forget to include your name with your entry!

10:03am: For Monday, February 6
For Monday, February 6th, please read chapter 19 (Assessing Student Progress and Program Effectiveness) from Children and their Art and post your reflective response here. Do not forget to include your name so I can give you a grade!

1:10pm: For Wednesday, February 1st
For Wednesday, February 1st, please read chapter 9 (Printmaking) from Children and their Art. Please do not forget to include your name so I can give you a grade!

9:16am: For Monday, January 30
For Monday, January 30th, please submit to the blog your reflective responses to chapters 11 (Design: Art Language and Application) and 12 (Art Criticism: From Classroom to Museum) in Children and their Art.

To post your reflective response, please click on the link that reads "Comment on this" in the lower right hand side of this entry.

10:30pm: For Wednesday, January 25
For Wednesday, January 25th, please read Chapter 17 (Curriculum: Background, Planning, and Organization) from Children and their Art OR Art and Integrated Curriculum, by Michael Parsons. You may do both for extra credit.

Please do not forget to include your name on your response so I can give you a grade!

9:57am: For Monday, January 23
For Monday, January 23rd, please submit to the blog your reflective responses to chapters 3 (Children's Artistic Development: How Children Grow and Learn) and 15 (Methods for Teaching Art: Classroom Practice) from Children and their Art.

To post your reflective response, please click on the link that reads "Comment on this" in the lower right hand side of this entry.

6:43pm: For Wednesday, January 18th
For Wednesday, January 18th, please submit to the blog your reflective responses to chapters 6 (Drawing: At the Heart of the Studio Experience I) and 7 (Drawing: At the Heart of the Studio Experience II) from Children and their Art.

To post your reflective response, please click on the link that reads "Comment on this" in the lower right hand side of this entry.

9:53am: For Monday, January 16th
For Monday, January 16th, please download from the course website downloads page and read chapter 2 from Sydney Walker's Teaching Meaning in Artmaking and Heidi Hayes Jacob's Mapping the Big Picture.

To post your reflective response, please click on the link that reads "Comment on this" in the lower right hand side of this entry.

9:33am: For Wednesday, January 11
For Wednesday, January 11th, please download from the course website downloads page and read chapter 1 from Sydney Walker's Teaching Meaning in Artmaking.

To post your reflective response, please click on the link that reads "Comment on this" in the lower right hand side of this entry.

11:06pm: For Monday, January 9th
*****Please respond to this entry, not the one below!********

For Monday, January 9th, please submit to the blog your reflective responses to chapters 1 (Foundations of Art Education: Children, Art, and Society) and 2 (Art Education in Contemporary Classrooms) from Children and their Art. To enter your responses, click on the link in the bottom right hand corner of this entry that says "Comment on this." Don't forget to include your name in your response so I can give you credit!

11:04pm: Welcome to the WI 2006 ART 461 blog!

***PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS ENTRY! FOR YOUR FIRST RESPONSE, PLEASE REPLY TO THE ENTRY DIRECTLY ABOVE!***

Greetings! If you are currently enrolled in ART 461 and are reading this message, you are in the right place.

This blog has been created for students enrolled in ART 461. The purpose of this blog is to enable students to post their reflective responses to the course readings. Most of the assigned readings come from your assigned textbook, Children and their Art: Methods for the Elementary School (7th ed.) by Al Hurwitz and Michael Day.

You are expected to add your reflective response to the assigned readings to the blog. These responses are to be thoughtful and considered, as well as a minimum of eight to ten full sentences long. You must check your responses for correct spelling and grammar, as points will be deducted for spelling errors and sloppy grammar. Each daily assignment is worth ten (10) points.

If you respond to a classmate's response, you receive a maximum of 5 extra credit points. In order to receive the full 5 points, your responses must be as thoughtful and considered (and at least 5 sentences long) as your original reflective response. (In other words, if you post a response that says, "I agree with everything you have said - good job!" you will not receive any additional credit). You are permitted a maximum of five (5) responses to your classmates.

If you any questions about how to use this blog, please email me at colman@ohio.edu or speciarchy@columbus.rr.com.

All good,
Dr. C