The TLAE textbook is designed for Pre-K–12 art educators, higher educators, and those in early childhood, elementary, secondary, special education, ESL/ELL, gifted, and STEM/STEAM, offering a transformative framework that fosters students’ creative and cognitive growth through multimodal learning that supports interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary connections.
This instructor manual is intended for higher education professionals, inservice and preservice educators, and supervisors, designed to help you make the most of the second edition. It includes practical ways to bring the textbook into practice using its proven strategies that spark curiosity, encourage hands-on exploration, and keep students actively engaged. Grounded in a deep respect for teacher and student agency, it reinforces TLAE’s framework with multimodal approaches to cultivate meaningful transformation by harnessing the visual arts’ unique strengths to deepen understanding, promote growth, foster empathy, and enrich personal, collective, and community well-being.
The manual includes chapter abstracts, objectives, and discussion questions and activities, as well as notes on the online resources available for each chapter.