Take advantage of the natural affinity children have for comics and use them as a powerful teaching tool in your classroom. The following tips, tools, and resources will get you started.
Students will enjoy the suggested hands-on classroom activities included in these downloadable resources, which will inspire and encourage their own portrait creations.
This is the first in a two-part series that will provide some tips and resources for starting and maintaining a parent-led art program at the elementary school level. (This is a good thing???)
Being an "agent of civilization" is one of the many roles ascribed to teachers. If we are to have any expectations of producing a well-educated, well-prepared generation of deep-thinking, resourceful leaders, then it is essential to give students an opportunity to review, respond to, and ultimately revere the power of the human imagination-past and present. There may be no better way to promote this than to study, understand, and exult in masterpieces.