Art in Universally Designed Preschool Environments

Get early childhood educators ready to encourage artistic growth with Art in Universally Designed Preschool Environments.

The DVD has three chapters:

• Art as an Open-ended Process
  • Discover how to awaken creative expression and support children's cognitive, language social, emotional and motor development through a comprehensive art curriculum.
  • Utilize effective strategies to encourage artistic growth
• Universal Design and Art Education
  • Learn about the theory of Universal Design for learning and how a developmentally appropriate art curriculum aligns with its principles.
  • Learn how to set up the environment and use teaching strategies to support the success of children.
• Art and the Integrated Curriculum
  • Explore how to plan and implement art experiences that meet goals in a curricular area such as math, language arts, social studies and science.
  • Teachers focus on how children at different developmental levels can all demonstrate success through the same experience.

The video also includes interviews with Arlitt Preschool, part of the University of Cincinatti, teachers providing insight into the strategies they use in their interactions with the children as well as the choices they make in regard to materials and activities they implement in the classroom.

The second component is a CD-Rom with powerpoint presentations designed for instructors to use in concert with the video component in professional development training seminars.

The presentations and accompanying lecture notes provide a closer look at the theory and research presented in the video as well as detailed examples of classroom activities and directions for making materials that are featured in the video.

This rich multimedia training tool is a must for trainers, teachers and administrators interested in expanding their knowledge base for mathematics curriculum design and implementation in early childhood education settings.

Available As: DVD with additional CD-Rom with 88 powerpoint slides
Produced By: Arlitt Media with the University of Cincinnati
Running Time: 75 minutes