Artistic Development

Artistic development stages help students to become perfect in creating art.  In the stages, children learn visual characteristics and achieve developmental standards.  The knowledge in each stage impacts curriculum planning in that each state play role in artistic development.  Knowledge impacts curricular plan in that in every stage, a particular age group and skills are required. The curriculum is planned according to the five stages, years of age and the type of skills needed (Malchiodi, 2012). Each stage requires different skills and so the curriculum is planned with respect to age groups and skills. In curriculum planning, the first stage is known as the scribble stage where children aged 2-4 years are provided with skills on physical activities such as drawing dots and marks (Malchiodi, 2012). The second state in curriculum planning is the pre-schematic stage and children aged 3-7 years start understanding symbols and drawing shapes like circles and lines. The thirds stage which the schematic stage requires children aged 6-11 years and the skills provided in this stage specifically deals with drawing objects which communicates meaning. They have the baseline and schema of presenting facial features.  In fourth state which is the transitional stage, the curriculum is planned for children aged 9years and the skills are based on adult standards (Malchiodi, 2012). Children draw arts with different details and sex roles and pictures based on world-making.  In the last stage called the realism stage, children aged 12 years become critical thinkers and gains self-conscious in producing realistic art work.

ESE students cannot use the same artistic development stages and age group because; students have different personalities and responds to education in a different way. They cannot use the same  stages because  they  have different level of ability and they  must be of different age groups in order to create ‘family of learners’ share things and support each other (Malchiodi, 2012). Children like cooperating than competing and through cooperation they will be able to find own assistance and solve problems. Students are unique individuals who need education in different stages so that the teacher can help them according to the level of ability. Learning in the same stage will hinder the teacher in understand the students and providing them with the required needs (Malchiodi, 2012).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

Malchiodi, C. A. (2012). Understanding Children's Drawings. New York: Guilford Publications.