Book details

  • Genre:education
  • Sub-genre:Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities
  • Language:English
  • Pages:216
  • eBook ISBN:9781098362065
  • Paperback ISBN:9781098362058

Art Your Future

Maximizing Your Child's Creativity and Intelligence Through Art

By Magda Zietsman and Josias Zietsman

Overview

We all want to develop confident, creative, and socially adept children who perform well in school and in life. "Art Your Future" provides a clear path to make art a part of a child's daily life so that he/she can flourish socially, academically, and emotionally. Applying the methods and concepts shown in this book will maximize your child or student's intelligence and creativity through art. Finally, there is a book featuring practical teaching methods, inspirational approaches, educating children to see beyond two dimensions and spur them on to solid problem-solving using art as the gateway to their creativity.
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Description

We all want to develop confident, creative, and socially adept children who perform well in school and in life. "Art Your Future" provides a clear path to make art a part of a child's daily life so that he/she can flourish socially, academically, and emotionally. Applying the methods and concepts shown in this book will maximize your child or student's intelligence and creativity through art. Finally, there is a book featuring practical teaching methods, inspirational approaches, educating children to see beyond two dimensions and spur them on to solid problem-solving using art as the gateway to their creativity. "Art Your Future" can be adopted by teachers and parents in any setting—public, charter, private, early learning centers, and home-based.
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About The Author

Magda Zietsman is an award-winning educator and artist with more than 30 years of teaching experience. She has personally taught art to more than 12,000 students of various abilities, socio-economic backgrounds, and cultures. Her experience as both an elementary school teacher and an art teacher makes her uniquely qualified to understand the value of art in the development of a child. Her numerous successes in cultivating the creativity of children though art is well known amongst parents, teachers and administrators. Magda was born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa and moved to the USA in 1997. She lives with her husband Joe who is the strategic advisor at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. They have two grown children - Alexander who works as an actuary in California for a major health insurance company and Maryshe who is a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine.
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