Chapter 12: Bullying in the Early Grades: Giving Visual Form to Voice
Posted May 3, 2017 by Joan Davidson
A first-grade classroom’s concern about bullying is the focus for students to engage in image making in conjunction with the writing process. Through the process, students discover they can give form to painful experiences and feelings and receive feedback from their peers.
Joan Davidson, a retiree from the United Federation of Teachers, is serving her 36th year as president/chairperson of the New York City Art Teachers Association/UFT. She taught art at all levels, kindergarten through college, for nearly 40 years. She is currently a volunteer art teacher at the Brooklyn New School. Davidson’s award-winning paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the country in one-woman and group exhibits.