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Exploring the Benefits of Art in Elementary Education
How Integrating Arts Into Other Subjects Making Learning Come Alive
How Arts Integration Supports Learning: Students Shed Light on the Connections
Post on the forum your "take-aways" from reading the three articles. What connections can you make to your classroom?
The key take aways are directly related to connection for my classroom. First, student rely on sensory input to enhance cognition. By incorporating a variety of methods that engage a student's senses they are able to make connections to the content through their personal representation or artful output. Secondly, incorporating art isnt just for the sake of art. It's to engage and stimulate students thinking. It makes it unique for each user, gets the body moving, and provides students a natural intrinsic motivation for tasks. In English we were studying setting. Students were to draw the setting as it was exposed in the reading of a new novel. Not only did students now have a specific purpose for listening, the were so engaged in comparing each drawing that they were discussing and using text evidence as well as making inferences about added things in the picture based on the dialog between the grandfather and his visiting grandchild. All subjects NEED to incorporate art. Lastly, there is just something about art that makes students expand their thinking. I found it interesting that art integration alone boosted achievement levels in testing.
The process of art alone invites children to many opportunities to learn so much vocabulary and construct learning about processes, materials, and oral vocabulary. I honestly feel that we do our prek students a disservice by pushing literacy before they have become skilled in art process.
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