Teaching media in spatial design as part of art education

Through their work in spatial design, pupils learn expressions such as space, shape and size of space etc. They develop their ability to observe various types of space, and their skills in shaping and arranging different spaces, improve their orientation and learn to comprehend relations in space. Observation of various spaces and movement in space play an important role in this. Hence, the teacher should use methods which enable the pupil to obtain as much information on a particular space as possible. When movement in a certain space is not possible, the teacher can use specific media to introduce to the pupil a certain spatial design concept. The aim of our research was to determine which teaching media are being used by teachers of art classes and how frequent The target group in our research were the teachers of first five grades of elementary school. The results showed that teachers most commonly use photographs from books and schoolbooks or overhead projector and computer. Unfortunately, our conclusions cannot be substantiated by our experiences in practice. These named show that the teaching media are in fact rarely present in spatial design. Teachers should be motivated to use up-to-date teaching media throughout permanent education. By using multimedia, spatial design would also gain in importance and could significantly contribute to the development of spatial notions and spatial intelligence of pupils.