Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Music, Plastic and Physical Expression 2
Other languages of instruction: Spanish,
Teaching staff
If a meeting is needed, the professor or student has 15 to 30 minutes either before or after the class, through previous notification.
Introduction
The class covers the main characteristics in visual art, with practical activities accompanied by theoretical information. To enhance the aesthetic taste and stimulate and encourage the use of a wide range of artistic activities. There is a special attention in maintaining an interest in the class activities.
Pre-course requirements
None
Objectives
- Acquire a basic knowledge of the procedures of visual arts.
- Acquire the resources to apply to each of the appropriate techniques for students of primary education (ages 6 to 12) of each level and age.
- Obtain specialized information in each material, uses and resources for each procedure.
- Get to know different methods of didactic organizing depending on the available means.
- Develop creative capability, providing new and varied solutions both conceptual and with materials.
Learning outcomes of the subject
- Understand the concepts that help cultural, personal and social formation in visual art.
- Learn to develop and evaluate contents of the program with adequate didactic resources and promote the corresponding students skills.
- Prepare didactic proposals that encourage creativity.
- Know and accept the positive influence of artistic formation in society.
- Get to know the primary education artistic education curriculum.
- Obtain resources to encourage lifelong participation in artistic activities inside and outside the school walls.
- Have detailed information on each of the materials and tools for each process in a formation in visual arts.
- Communicate and correctly express oneself teaching verbally and written.
- Know of the proficiencies of creativity, the entrepreneurial spirit and orientation of the equality and know how to always apply it to the students.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
Criteria for evaluating and scoring activities of visual expression
EFFORT AND DEDICATION TO ALL THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT
Excellent (9, 10) – The project was continued until it was as complete as the student could make it; gave effort far beyond that required; took pride in going well beyond the requirement.
Notable (7, 8) – The student worked hard and completed all the aspects of project well, but with a little more effort it might have been outstanding.
Bien (6) – The student finished the project, but it could have been improved with more effort; adequate interpretation of the assignment, but lacking more preliminary sketches and / or finish; chose an easy project and did it indifferently.
Passed (5) – The project was understood and completed with a minimum effort.
Failed (4 or lower) – The student dedicated little or no time to key steps that the project required. Those steps could be the preparatory sketches, collecting references and / or the final result.
The below characteristics, according to the activity, will be helpful to look for and evaluate in the above.
With quality time spent, dedication and effort it is more likely to be
CREATIVITE / ORIGINAL / UNIQUE / SINGULAR
and there is also much more probable that there is a better;
USE OF ELEMENTS OF DESIGN: LINE, TEXTURE, COLOR, SHAPE/FORM, VALUE, SPACE;
USE OF PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN. REPETITION, BALANCE, EMPHASIS, HIERCAHY, CONTRAST, CONTOURS, UNITY AND COMPOSITION
And then the more quality time one dedicates to
CRAFTSMANSHIP / SKILL
the better one gets.
Bibliography and resources
Bibliography – teaching art in English
Beal, Nancy The Art of Teatching Art to Children Farra, Straus and Giroux, New York. 2001
ISBN-13: 978-0374-52770-9 and ISBN-10:0-374-52770-9 (pb: alk.paper)
Corfee, Stephanie Paint Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Painting and Mixed Media for Budding Artists of All Ages (Lab Series) Quary Publishing Group, Beverly, Massachusetts, USA, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-63159-078-8 and digital edition ISBN: 978-1-63159-798-4
Deuchars, Marion. Art Draw Laurence King Publishing Ltd. London, 2018
ISBN 978-1-78067-8-764
Deuchars, Marion. Draw Paint Print like the Great Artists Laurence King Publishing Ltd. London, 2014
ISBN 978-1-78067-2-816
Hume, Helen D. The Art Teacher's Book of Lists 2nd edition, Jossey Bass, San Francisco, CA, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0470482087 and ISBN-10: 0470482087
Hume, Helen D. The Art Teacher’s Survival Guide for Elementary Schools
2nd edition, Jossey Bass, San Francisco, CA, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-4701-8302-1
Prince, Eille S. Art is Fundamental Teaching the Elements and Principles of Art in Elementary School Zephyr Press, Chicago Illinois, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1569762165
ISBN-10: 1569762163
Russi, Barbara Art Workshop for Children The Quarto Group, Beverly, MA, USA, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-63159-143-3
Aronson, Marc Art Attack Clarion Books, NY, NY 1998
ISBN: 0-395-79729-2