Arts Integration
Published on Dec 08, 2015
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Arts Integration Summary
MaryConti
This presentation will summarize the learning experiences I had in Integrative Expressive Arts this semester and what I will be taking away from the course.
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According to the Early Childhood Art Educators Issue Group, "the arts are essential to early learning". With this in mind, it is important to take an integrated approach to teaching art in early education.
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According to ECAE:
- "Every child is innately curious and seeks to construct personal knowledge and understanding"
- "A child constructs knowledge in meaningful social contexts"
- "A child experiences the world in a holistic way that is best served by an interdisciplinary approach."
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According to ECAE continued
- "A child constructs insight and knowledge through guided and spontaneous learning"
- "The arts support multiple ways of knowing and learning"
- "The arts empower children"
- "The arts offer opportunities to develop creativity, imagination, and flexible thinking."
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According to ECAE continued
- "The arts can enrich a young child’s understanding of diverse cultures."
- "programs should be comprehensive in scope, including studio experiences, interactions with artists, visits to museums and art galleries, and opportunities to respond to art"
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With these statements in mind and the experiences I have had in this course, there are a variety of views and beliefs I will be taking away and implementing when I teach.
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"A child constructs knowledge in meaningful social contexts"
Each class began with a discussion of various pieces of art. This was a social experience that would get students discussing the art and then tying the discussion into the art studio made the discussion meaningful and relevant.
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"Every child is innately curious and seeks to construct personal knowledge and understanding"
Students need time to explore on their own and be creative. Through this self directed exploration, they are able to learn. This was practiced in class by allowing us to explore the art materials we would be using and then sharing what we discovered about it. This can also be applied in the classroom by giving students the materials to explore, providing musical instruments to experiment with rhythm and providing dress up clothes and other "pretend" centers to allow them to explore different roles and responsibilities.
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Studio 1
Discussing various art pieces, such as what they were about and the colors used, was social and then applying the same colors to our project made it meaningful. This discussion aided in the construction of knowledge.
In this studio, we discussed a variety of art pieces and examined the colors used. This lead to a discussion of the primary colors and what made them special. Being tasked with then creating a piece of art using only primary colors made the discussion meaningful and would help a student with their construction of knowledge.
"A child experiences the world in a holistic way that is best served by an interdisciplinary
approach."
Being able to connect different lessons and subjects helps the child to see how they are connected and learn in a holistic way.
Art is applicable to any subject area and when we can connect art projects to science or reading lessons, the students are going to benefit much more than if the subjects were kept completely separate and taught independently.
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Studio 2
"A child constructs insight and knowledge through guided and spontaneous learning"
In studio 2, we learned how different mediums interacted. We saw that the paint would roll off the ways oil pastel; this was an example of guided learning. During studio 1, spontaneous learning occurred when we saw the primary colors mix to create secondary colors. Although one is an example of guided learning and the other is spontaneous learning, both would help a child to construct knowledge and insight.
"The arts support multiple ways of knowing and learning"
Art integration is an important part of early education because it provides students with a different way to learn. As previously discussed, young children need to explore and create to best understand and construct knowledge; art provides them with an outlet to learn the material in a different way. For example, students could learn about natural elements, such as plants, from a text book, or they could go on a nature walk, collect different things such as leaves and sticks and create a collage or project with it. Through this activity, art would be supporting the concepts they were learning about in science.
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"The arts empower children"
The arts empower children because it gives them the opportunity to create something and to take ownership for what they have made. During studios, we had the opportunity to share what we were creating, discovering, and learning about. For a child, the knowledge is empowering and they see that they have the capability to create and to share their creations with others.
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Studio 4
"The arts offer opportunities to develop creativity, imagination, and flexible thinking."
Studio 5 offered us the most opportunity to develop our imagination because we developed an image of a person in our mind and then used that image to create them. This activity would provide students with a huge opportunity to develop their imagination because they are creating the image themselves with no examples or specifications as to what's right and what's wrong.
"The arts can enrich a young child’s
understanding of diverse cultures."
Art helps children expand their understanding of diverse cultures because they can study the art that is created by different cultures and examine the differences and similarities between the artwork while learning about the different cultures, the resources they have available, and the influences they had when creating the artwork. Children could be introduced to African art, folk art, and different art periods.
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Studio 2
Peoples ideas are translated through art
In studio 2, we were tasked with recreating a scene from "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". In addition to the experience of creating a collage, this studio tasked us with recreating images by another artist. Eric Carol had an idea of how his art would tie into the story he created, and we then recreated images. Our pieces were all different from each other and looked different. This shows that art is also a personal experience and each person will have a different take on how to create something and determining how it should look.
"Early childhood art programs should be comprehensive in scope, including studio experiences,
interactions with artists, visits to museums and art galleries, and opportunities to respond to art
through conversation, storytelling, play, dramatics, movement, music, and art making"
This statement is an important part of art integration because it describes the variety of ways art needs to be integrated into the curriculum in order for the students to benefit from it the most and have a well rounded experience. Art can be integrated into all aspects of the curriculum and, when it is, students greatly benefit.
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