Teacher-directed:

  -direct instruction

  -teacher intervention

  -stuctured

Child-Centered

  -complete freedom

  -nonintervention

  -unstructured

-teacher has a defintie idea of what children make and how they will go about it

-specific directions

-little input from the children

-teacher is not involved

-very little structure

-discourages the teacher from sharing ideas

1. Allow children to be personally expressive

2.subtly balance artistic process and product

3.be open-ended, allowing children to be creative

4.Allow for discovery

5. Allow for active engagement

6. be intrinsically motivating

7. be success-oriented

8. be available to all children

9. invovle legitimate artistic media

10. be developmentally approriate

-a good art program understands and accepts that indivdual children can be oriented toward process, product, or both in their approach to art.

-kids often have little concern for their finished products, they just like doing it

-art like music, movement, and play

-praise one kids work, and everyone will copy

-praise needs to be aimed at the process and involvement rather than at the outcome

Activites that masquerade as creative

1. an emphasis on teacher input and direction

2. a high degree of structure

3. a specified product