Teaching and Assessing Creative Arts for Primary Children: Backward Mapping and Learning Experiences

TEACHING AND ASSESSING THE
CREATIVE ARTS IN PRIMARY AGED
CHILDREN

INTRODUCTION TO
BACKWARD MAPPING
Backward mapping can be defined as a process that is used by the
educators to design the learning experiences and the instructional
techniques for achieving the specific learning goals
Backward mapping always focusses on the end product that is the
on learning other than teaching.
The backward mapping helps the teachers to develop courses and
units .

RATIONALE:
Arts is fundamental to develop physical, emotional, aesthetic,
intellectual and social growth of the individual.
By giving the opportunities to the children to explore visual arts ,
the children explore the creative possibilities of making a new
fabric
A variety of fabrics can be used to explore the shapes and the
lines, textures and the patterns and the tones (Roy, Baker &
Hamilton,2015).
Visual arts helps in the holistic development of the child.

LEARNING GOALS
Children will be able to identify the wide array of colors and will be
able to do the fine line drawing.
Children will be able to understand the pattern , shapes and the
forms of different objects.