If you haven’t taken the plunge of adding local artists into your curriculum, I highly encourage it. Sure, they may not have as much notoriety as the greats, below are 3 added benefits to adding these artists into your curriculum! Connection Okay one of the absolute coolest things we’ve discovered in teaching about local artists...
Episode 16: Podcast Recap Most people will tell you that prepping over the summer for the next school year is important BUT you don’t have to do it right away! If you ask either of us, it is important to have time to yourself during the summer. Hayley always takes an entire month off for...
A lot of art teachers are thrown into the freedom of creating their own curriculum. Or they have one passed down to them but are ready for a change. But between art history timelines, elements and principles of art, art mediums, techniques, skills, and the list goes on and on…. where do you start?! It...
Episode 15: Podcast Recap In this episode, we talk about creating a curriculum focused primarily on cultures. This is one of our favorite ways to organize a curriculum but we need to put a disclaimer out there because we know it can be a touchy subject. We are two, white women, who teach in a...
It’s now summertime and along with the nice weather another thing that summer brings is…garage sales! Call them what you want – garage sales, yard sales, rummage sales, whatever your choice of word is, people are selling their unwanted junk (I mean treasures) to strangers roaming the neighborhood. I find it fun to browse and...
Episode 14: Podcast Recap In this episode, we talk about creating a curriculum focused primarily on the skills and techniques you teach. Then, other factors like types of artists, styles, and cultures that would go along with those skill becomes a secondary factor. Focusing on skills and concepts with younger kids goes well because they...
Woooo! You made it through another school year! Whether it’s your first, 10th, or 20th…it seems to only get more challenging with all the demands thrown at teachers. In the past, I usually gave myself a week to relax after school got out and then I would start working on stuff. My brain couldn’t stop...
I just finished my 9th year teaching elementary art. By the end of every year I feel exhausted and don’t want anything to do with running a summer art camp like many other art teachers out there. Until this year that is. For whatever reason, I finally worked up the courage (and energy, let’s be...
Episode 13: Podcast Recap To start this mini series off, we talk about how to organize an art curriculum based on art styles. Depending on where you teach, you may or may not have the freedom to create your own curriculum. And while that sounds amazing at first, it can be really overwhelming! For kindergarten,...