Art takes concepts from any subject and makes it visual. The abstract becomes concrete to connect the dots for the students.
No matter what subject you teach, using art prints in your classroom can help bring your students to a fuller understanding and help you better reach your goals.
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An EASY 3-step method for working with art prints.
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Advice on HOW to find the right art print and how to use it to meet the goals for your specific subject.
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A helpful TOOL for effectively implementing our 3-step method.
Lessons From a Teacher, For Teachers. We Speak Teacher AND Arts, So You Get the Benefits of Both.
This course will help you understand why art prints can benefit your classroom and how you can find the right ones for your subject and classroom goals.
Lesson 1: Common Questions Teachers Have About Using Art Prints
We get questions from teachers all the time about using art prints in the classroom. How do you find art prints? How do you know it's the right one to use? What's the rule for ___? This lesson was designed to address these questions so you can feel confident in using art prints to meet your class's goals.
Lesson 2: Our 3-Step Method for Working With Art Prints
How can you get from point A to point B when you're trying to figure out how to use an art print in your classroom? Our research resulted in a 3-step method that is not in a hierarchy, but all steps are interconnected and in no particular order. Once you understand this method, you'll be confident in finding and using art prints to meet your goals!
Lesson 3: Finding the Right Art Print and How to Use It
Discover how we use a graphic organizer to identify goals and find the right art print. This lesson will walk you through an example of this full process. You'll be able to download our graphic organizer at the end so you can replicate this same process in your classroom!
Course Curriculum
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Using Art Prints to Meet Goals
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Using Art Prints to Meet Goals
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EXTENSION: Genre, Content, & Artist Alignment
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Meet Your Instructor
Ed. S.
Amanda Koonlaba
Amanda Koonlaba, Ed. S. is an educator and artist with more than 14 years of experience teaching both visual art and traditional courses. Her career has been driven by the power of arts-integrated lessons to reach all learners and teach any standard.
Amanda earned her Bachelor of Education degree from Mississippi State University in Starkville, MS. Additionally, she earned a Masters of Science in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment from Walden University, an education specialist degree in Educational Leadership from Arkansas State University, and an Elementary and Middle Childhood Art certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. She lives in Tupelo, MS with her husband, Cherdchai, son, Dagk, and daughters, Willa and Ruby.
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T.Phipps
"I loved the organization of using the graphic organizers created by Amanda to find the correct art print to go along with a specific standard. I learned a wide variety of analytical strategies to use with art prints and the great process for going from a specific standard to an appropriate art print. I don't think I have ever used an art print in a lesson, and that makes me sad. I would love to use them in my classroom, and now I have the motivation to do that. "
C.Collifield
"This session did a fantastic job going into depth of how to integrate art prints into early elementary phonics lesson. This is something I would have never thought of doing with cvc words. Amanda uses that standard to model the process, but the process could be applied across any subject or grade level."
A. Ashford
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BOOM! This taught me arts integration is easy to incorporate even when we have many pages of required school goals and textbook requirements. This is how we can make the most of what little time we have with our students."