Arts integration engages students in the creative process where learning is dynamic and evolving. The creative process involves students in revisiting ideas and revising their work.
Arts integration is evolving. It is important for teachers to understand how to continually integrate art into the learning process and find new ways for students to challenge themselves. It is important to experiment with new learning activities.
By its very nature, arts integration engages students in social and collaborative learning
This is why I have come to really enjoy arts integration in learning. I have discovered new ways to incorporate social connection while my students are still learning.
Each art form is an area of study with its own history, principles, and practices, and offers a broad and challenging content accessible to diverse learners.
This is exactly why I love arts integration! Students have the option to try many different things in the classroom.
This Whole Child tenet also recommends forging closer ties between families and the school. The arts can blur traditional school and community boundaries by inviting local artists to show or demonstrate their creative work in the classroom. When engaged as role models and mentors, artists can further connect the school and community.
I think this is a great idea to increase community involvement. Showing the community how creative integration has paid off is wonderful.
Engagement also increases when students are connected to the school and broader community
This is 100% spot on. I believe that group engagement starts with including one another in every situation.
Arts integration offers a safe, student-centered environment where students feel valued, respected and cared for.
I love this section. I feel that it is very important that all students feel loved and welcomed in the classroom. I am happy to be learning about better ways to do so.
According to Tomlinson, the primary intent of differentiated instruction is to “maximize student capacity.”
I think that it is so important to use different teaching techniques to help all students learn. It is important to explore new ways to teach students.
I have seen that children who participate in arts integration showed longer retention of concepts and found deeper meaning in the curriculum presented.
I think this is a great thing to keep in mind when it comes to future lesson planning. I would like my students to remember what they are learning and keep it in their brains.
Sometimes the evidence we collect tells us that our instruction has not been clear enough. In those cases, we step back and adapt or change our instruction to better meet students’ needs.
Understanding what we lack as teachers is essential to being a good teacher. By understanding how you can improve yourself, you are providing your students with a chance to improve their learning.
Sometimes what we observe—what students do, say, or create—provides clear information that helps us direct them to the most appropriate place in the creative process.
I loved this sentence. I think it is important as teachers to be aware of the students around us. Understanding student's needs and learning signs is a great skill to have as a teacher. This can lead us to make the correct teaching decisions for our students.
Arts integration also involves students in ongoing reflection and self-assessment. Because the products students create are concrete and visible—a dance sequence, a musical composition, a poem, a collage, a dramatic improvisation—it is possible for students (and teachers, too) to examine their progress and reflect on what is working well and what needs improvement.
I think it is so important to keep in mind self-reflection during art integration. This process has helped me learn so much during art activities. I am able to see how much I enjoy it!
The creative process is accessible to all learners. It’s flexible and can be altered and adapted to fit an individual student’s needs.
I love how the creative process is accessible to all learners no matter what. This is great for students who struggle to learn. Being creative is one of the best ways to learn and this highlighted text says just that!
They communicate their developing understandings using a variety of ways including digital media and technology.
I love how you can express art in multiple ways. As a teacher, I need to provide my students many options on how they would like to express their creativity.
Creating in the arts involves critical thinking and “sophisticated intellectual engagement:”
I really agree with this statement. For some, art may come easy. For me, I struggle to be creative.