COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The Art, Crafts, and Calligraphy course will help prepare Student Teachers to teach these subjects in the elementary grades. It provides Student Teachers with an opportunity to develop their knowledge and understanding of art, crafts, and calligraphy (with a focus on Pakistani artists, calligraphers, and craftsmen and women) and to practice making their own works using a variety of techniques. Given that this is a teacher education course, Student Teachers also examine the role of art in child development; the importance of art, craft, and calligraphy in the curriculum; and the links between art, crafts, and calligraphy and other subjects such as science, math, and social studies. Student Teachers will have learned about lesson planning, classroom assessment, and classroom management in other courses; in this course they will focus on these three skills as they apply to teaching and learning art, crafts, and calligraphy in the elementary grades. This course will develop and broaden critical and creative thinking skills, understanding of and appreciation for the visual arts and culture and increase participant‘s proficiency in visual art techniques and processes. Participants will get an opportunity to explore various visual art forms and techniques in this course through the elements and principles of art and design.

COURSE OUTCOMES

By the end of the semester participants will be able to:

·     Explain the importance of art education and its role in child development especially for nurturing creativity, enhancing aesthetic sense and stretching imagination.

·     Use tools and materials in art more skillfully·     Use of an art journal on their own artistic ideas and thoughts for refining their teaching as an art teacher

·     Recognize and appreciate artists, art styles, and artwork

·     Reflect and participate in art critiques as a critic and as an artist

·     Initiate independent projects that allow personal interpretation and self-expression

·     Identify links between art and other school subjects

LEARNING AND TEACHING APPROACHES

Participants  will engage in instructional  activities  using a greater variety of m aterials and/or combination of materials. It will provide opportunities for participants to explore their abilities to transmit forceful and meaningful ideas in a variety of media to a two- dimensional surface based on their previous experiences. Participants would be encouraged to use sketch books to note information and develop ideas, make use of a good variety of media to illustrate art history lessons, e.g. teacher can explore and experiment with different mediums to illustrate her ideas, shecan develop a time line mural, explore low cost materials for making cave arts etc develop skills in note-making when viewing reproductions of the work of artists and designers; set regular assignments for homework which require personal research. Variety of teaching and learning approaches would be used e.g. the museum visit/ report and the research project, glossary, handouts.