1. EDUC 321 Art Workshop I Exploring the Arts: Teaching and learning with, about, and through the arts Carime Bersh, Ph. D.

2.  “The very idea that we can change our schools and make them more effective centers of learning without educating children in the arts is simply false…”  The Arts and Education Partners in Achieving Our National Education Goals, 1994.

3. Objectives:  Students will identify the major fields of the arts and connect their importance with school and society.  Students will identify reasons why the arts are essential to child development, creativity, understanding, making meaning and connections, academic success, self- knowledge and self-actualization.  Students will build cross-curricular connections between the arts, literacy and social studies.

4. Objectives  Students will develop a basic working knowledge of the arts and how to integrate them across the curriculum.  Students will identify examples of art integration across the elementary school curriculum.  Students will identify the National Visual Arts Standards for grades K-8 and apply those standards in developing ideas for a lesson plan.

5. What are the arts?

6. Why do we need the arts in schools and society?

7. The arts and child development Psycho-social development:  Expression and communication : All that we think or feel cannot be expressed in words.  Values of perseverance and hard work.  Creativity: Artistic thinkers and creative problem solvers.  Self-knowledge and self- actualization: “ language of the soul”.  Connections: The arts as alternative to destructive behaviors.

8. More on the arts and child development  Cognitive Domain:  Higher academic achievement in other subject areas.  Different ways of being smart (Gardner’s multiple intelligences).  Brain development.  Physical Domain:  Fine and gross motor development.  Good body posture and body language.  Voice modulation and projection.  Facial expression.

9.  “A new concept of arts integration goes beyond using media, singing and drama for self-expression, solely, important as these are…a broader conception depicts the arts as indispensable sources of cultural and historical information, diverse perspectives and values.”  (Cornett, 1999, p. 2).

10. An example of arts integration: Creating Original Opera  New York Metropolitan Opera  http://www.metoperafamily.org/education/educ ators/creating_original.aspx http://www.metoperafamily.org/education/educ ators/creating_original.aspx  INTEGRATES Principles