ECE306 VISUAL ARTS AND MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT
| Course Code: | 4110306 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Early Childhood Education |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. SERAP SEVİMLİ ÇELİK, Assoc.Prof.Dr. HASİBE ÖZLEN DEMİRCAN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
- Comprehend basic concepts of visual arts.
- Recognize the artistic elements in a young child work.
- Understand the rationale for aesthetics in early childhood education.
- Recognize the components of a complete early childhood art program.
- Understand the characteristics of a variety of learning materials for young children.
- Show awareness to adapt a variety of materials for children who have special needs.
- Appreciate indigenous, recyclable, and commercial materials to create developmentally appropriate activities suitable for young children.
Course Content
Definition, meaning and the purpose of visual arts. Art criticism, the history of the visual arts and aesthetic judgements. Preparation and application of different kinds of paints using different materials, such as crayons, water coloring, clay and ceramics. Construction of musical instruments and toys, puppets; finger puppet, cloth puppets, wooden puppet, string puppet by using waste materials. Principles and standards of toy construction, design of a kindergarten or playground.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Describe children’s sequential stages of development in art.
- Describe the different explanation for the development of children’s art.
- Describe artistic development from birth through age eight.
- Describe such aesthetic criteria as line, color, shape, pattern, space, and texture. Integrate the categories and physical properties of artistic elements.
- Prepare an art activity that will help children learn about artistic elements.
- Prepare materials for children with special needs.
- Describe how to choose and use materials that are suitable for children with special needs.
- Describe teacher role to help children who have special needs use materials that both open-ended and closed-ended.
- Use art critique to discuss a work of art.
- Categorize the major divisions of artistic styles.
- Prepare developmentally appropriate art activities for young children.
- Describe the tools, materials, and techniques for two-dimensional activities.
- Describe the tools, materials, and techniques for 3-D activities.
- Describe strategies for using open-ended materials in the class.
- Describe the difference between open-ended and closed materials.
- Discuss the ways to use open-ended and closed-ended materials in the class.
- Discuss the ways to use high-structured and low structured materials in the class.
- Describe the aesthetic attitude, process, experience, response, and value.
- Discuss the teacher’s role in aesthetics.
- Give examples for the selection of art prints for display in the classroom.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | To have the knowledge about 0-72 month old children's cognitive, motor, language, social and emotional development and self help skills and to be able to make applications to support this area. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | To be able to take measures for the protection of children's health. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | To know the importance of game in pre-school education and to support the education and development of the child through play. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | To recognize the pre-school education institutions in the scope of the purpose, structure and functioning of the Turkish education system. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | To have information about classroom management approaches to be used in educational environments and to effectively implement these approaches. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | To have information about international programs that are applied in the field of pre-school education and to use these programs' aspects that are appropriate to our culture in classroom practice. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | To be able to conduct research in the field of pre-school education and analyze and interpret research findings. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | To be able to prepare, implement and evaluate Turkish, science, math, art, music, movement, games, reading and writing preparation and field trip activities that support different areas of development (cognitive, motor, language, self-care, social and emotional) of pre-school children and can be planned as individual, small group, large group and integrated groups. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | To be able to use and to allow students to use audio-visual teaching materials appropriate for pre-school age children for their development. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | To be able to take responsibility and to fulfill these responsibilities in individual and group work. | ✔ | |||
| 11 | To understand the importance of family involvement in children's education and to plan activities related to family involvement. | ✔ | |||
| 12 | To have knowledge about literary genres prepared for pre-school children and to examine existing publications in terms of literary and artistic perspectives. | ✔ | |||
| 13 | To have knowledge about the importance and purpose of the use of formal and informal assessment methods appropriate for the age level and developmental level of pre-school children, and to apply and interpret different evaluation methods and to be able to interpret findings. | ✔ | |||
| 14 | To be able to follow/access, understand and question scientific publications for pre-school education. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution