Organizing an Art Curriculum

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Fantastic Resource for ways to organize your classroom curriculum:

How can we organize planning for art instruction?

Carrie Birmingham said, “For instance, I can imagine planning around art elements like line and color, or planning based on great artists, or planning based on curricular connections, or planning based on children’s development. There are probably a lot of other ways. More concretely, suppose one of my students wanted to plan one art lesson a week, how would she pick which lessons?”
Yes,
very simply put, you could organize based on any of these frameworks:

• the elements of art
• famous artists
• art around the world (countries)
• cross-curricular (connect to Science, Math, Social Studies, etc.)
• a theme-based yearlong curriculum 
• by media (markers, oil pastels, watercolor, tempera paint, paper, paper mache, clay, weaving)

Developing a curriculum is a very personal thing and you need to come up with a plan that you are excited and comfortable with.  If you are a classroom teacher looking to add a little art to your class, the following post will probably be more than you need.  If you are an art teacher developing a curriculum, this might be helpful to you.
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