Focus On, Contemporary Art, Teacher's Guide

The Teacher’s guide makes it easy and fun to work with art together with the students.

The Teacher’s Guide provides:

•  Detailed explanations of all the artwork in the textbook with extra information and notes for teachers

•   Tips on how to get students to understand particular works or types of artwork

•   Questions with model answers for class discussions

•   Exercises and detailed suggestions for how to approach the projects. The exercises and projects are designed to develop speaking, writing and listening skills and many are presented on worksheets that can be photocopied and handed out to students.

•    Additional related texts and exercises. Teachers who work with cooperative learning structures can easily use most of the exercises.

•    Suggestions for related topics of study. These topics include popular test topics such as the mass media, consumerism, identity, the environment, poverty, discrimination, and race and gender issues.