Mark Kistler's Draw Squad

The curriculum facilitates direct instruction through structured lesson components including explicit skill instruction and guided practice.

Each lesson includes 'instruction in a new skill, exercises with the new skill, examples, evaluation activities, practice and review' with clear layout that makes lessons 'easy to follow'

The curriculum emphasizes structured technique instruction but includes opportunities for extended practice and daily drawing activities.

Lessons have nine structured components including warm-up exercises, skill instruction, and practice, but also include 'extended activities' and recommendations for daily drawing with 'plenty of ideas in the book'

The curriculum teaches specific drawing vocabulary through ten key technical terms.

Kistler presents drawing techniques as ten 'key words': foreshortening, shading, surface, size, contour lines, overlapping, density, shadows, attitude, and daily use

The curriculum provides excellent structured instruction in professional drawing techniques through ten specific skills and explicit lesson components.

Kistler teaches 'professional drawing techniques' through ten key words including foreshortening, shading, surface, size, contour lines, overlapping, density, shadows, attitude, and daily use, with each lesson including instruction in new skills and practice exercises

The curriculum does not appear to include art history or cultural knowledge components.

The review focuses entirely on drawing technique instruction with no mention of art history, artists, movements, or cultural contexts

The curriculum appears designed for independent use with clear instructions but lacks specific teacher training materials.

The review notes that 'a fourth or fifth grader can use the book on his or her own' and lessons are 'well laid out and easy to follow,' but mentions no teacher guides or training materials