Sarah Kaiser

Professor Amber Ward

September 7, 2017

Art 133 Unit 1 Paper

An analysis of the effectiveness of teaching art classes to young children reveals one

challenge facing teachers: ensuring children develop and feel confident in their identity and

also cover specific content through a lesson plan. The most important part of teaching

especially in art because it is so subjective is developing a big idea from the curriculum.

Sydney Walker says Big ideas represent the artists overall purposes for art making, and

they tell-in broad conceptual terms- what the artist is about.

Walker, S. (2001). Teaching meaning in art making. Worchester, MA: Davis.

When teaching my future population the essential questions I need to address will be what

is the Big Idea I am trying to discuss with my students? The second essential question will be

how can I reach my students to ensure that they grasp the concept effectively while art making?

Unit 1 has better prepared me to teach to my future students by considering their are many

different options that a student can learn and to not limit my students to look at a piece of art

work from several different perspectives. A good example of this was the art work Material

Means represented in the course reader written by Mary J.Franco, Amber Ward, and Kathleen

Unrath. The art represented the environment and what we can do as a community to help the

greater good.

Franco, M. Ward, A. Unrath, K. (2014). Artmaking as Meaning-Making: A New Model for

preserve Elementary Generalists.

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