{"id":521,"date":"2019-03-20T13:04:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educationlibrarybooklists\/?p=521"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:11:36","slug":"teaching-arts-disciplines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educationlibrarybooklists\/2019\/03\/20\/teaching-arts-disciplines\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Arts Disciplines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listed below are selected teacher resources for teaching in Arts disciplines.<\/p>\n

Teacher Resources<\/h4>\n

\"\"ArtBreak: A creative guide to joyful and productive classrooms<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

by Katherine Ziff<\/p>\n

Grades: K-5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Integrating theory and practice from art therapy, counseling, and child-centered education, ArtBreak offers a guide to choice-based, guided play experience based on the developmental and restorative possibilities of art making.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Integrating the arts across the elementary school curriculum<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

by R. Phyllis Gelineau<\/p>\n

Grades: K-7<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book’s concise chapters focus on the practical application and integration of arts in the elementary curriculum. Each chapter explores a different discipline in arts education, including drama, music, dance, and art, and provides easy to implement activities that can be adapted to different subjects, classrooms, and ages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"The arts go to school: Classroom-based activities that focus on music, painting, drama, movement, media, and more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

edited by David Booth and Masayuki Hachiya<\/p>\n

Grades: K-8<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book offers activities, lessons, and exemplar classrooms which will help teachers incorporate the fundamentals of music, painting, drama, movement, and more in a creative and easy to understand way.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Art teaching: Elementary through middle school<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

by George Szekely and Julie Alsip Bucknam<\/p>\n

Grades: K-8<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presents fundamental theories, principles, creative approaches, and resources for art teaching in elementary through middle-school. Key sections focus on how children make art, why they make art, the unique qualities of children\u2019s art, and how artistic development can be encouraged in school and at home. eBook only<\/p>\n

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\"\"Culturally relevant arts education for social justice: a way out of no way <\/a><\/p>\n

edited by Mary Stone Hanley, George W. Noblit, Gilda L. Sheppard & Tom Barone<\/p>\n

Grades: K-12<\/strong><\/p>\n

A groundswell of interest has led to significant advances in understanding and using Culturally Responsive Arts Education to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors. Examining a range of efforts across different forms of art, various educational settings, and diverse contexts, it foregrounds the assets of imagination, creativity, resilience, critique and cultural knowledge, working against prevailing understandings of marginalized groups as having deficits of knowledge, skills, or culture.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Preparing educators for arts integration: Placing creativity at the center of learning<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

edited by Gene Diaz and Martha Barry McKenna<\/p>\n

Grades: K-12<\/strong><\/p>\n

This resource examines professional development approaches from across the United States to help schools and allied arts groups integrate the arts into the K\u201312 curriculum. Emphasizes the value of collaboration among teachers, artists, educational leaders, and community partners. Readers will find strong, empirically tested models of arts integration to inform curriculum development and teacher professional learning.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Arts integration: Teaching subject matter through the arts in multicultural settings<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

by Merryl Goldberg<\/p>\n

Grades: K-12<\/strong><\/p>\n

Explains how teachers may integrate the arts\u2014literary, media, visual, and performing\u2014throughout subject area curriculum and provides a multitude of strategies and examples. This text is ideal as a primer on arts integration and a foundational support for teaching, learning, and assessment, especially within the context of multicultural and multilingual classrooms. eBook only<\/p>\n

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\"\"Teaching and learning in art education: Cultivating students’ potential from pre-K to through high school<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

by Debrah C. Sickler-Voigt<\/p>\n

Grades: K-12<\/strong><\/p>\n

Teaching and Learning in Art Education explores essential and emerging topics such as: managing the classroom in art education; artistic development from early childhood through adolescence; catering towards learners with a diversity of abilities; integrating technology into the art field; and understanding drawing, painting, paper arts, sculpture, and textiles in context. eBook only.<\/p>\n

\"\"The art and design teacher’s handbook<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

by Susie Hodge<\/p>\n

Grades: 6-12<\/strong><\/p>\n

This comprehensive handbook provides art teachers with practical advice on planning effective lessons, developing imaginative ideas for teaching art across the age ranges, developing students’ creative, technical and critical skills, and preparing students for coursework and exams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"The art teacher’s survival guide for secondary schools: Grades 7-12<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

by Helen D. Hume<\/p>\n

Grades: 7-12<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ten chapters designed specifically for the unique needs of middle and high school art teachers. Includes lesson plans, practical tools, and reproducible handouts for 75 art projects. Covers drawing, painting, fine art, sculpture, computer graphics, printmaking, careers in art, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Learning to teach art and design in the secondary school: A companion to school experience<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

edited by Nicholas Addison and Lesley Burgess<\/p>\n

Grades: 8-12<\/strong><\/p>\n

Explores a range of approaches to teaching and learning and provides a conceptual and practical framework for understanding the diverse nature of art and design in the secondary school curriculum. Provides support and guidance for learning and teaching in art and design, suggesting strategies to motivate and engage pupils in making, discussing and evaluating visual and material culture. eBook only<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Finding More Resources<\/h4>\n

To find more resources in this area, try the following:<\/p>\n