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Engaging Students Through the Arts

Engaging Students Through the Arts.

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Engaging Students Through the Arts

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  1. Engaging Students Through the Arts

  2. “Since arts experiences offer other modes and ways of experiencing and learning, children will have opportunities to think and feel as they explore, problem solve, express, interpret and evaluate the process and the results.  To watch a child completely engaged in an arts experience is to recognize that the brain is on, driven by the aesthetic and emotional imperative to make meaning, to say something, to represent what matters." David Booth and Masayuki Hachiya

  3. Read and Share In your classrooms, under what conditions have you witnessed a child “completely engaged in an arts experience”?

  4. Read and Share What are some of the barriers to using the ARTS as an instructional strategy? As a teacher? For your Students?

  5. Today we will…. • Look at Engaging students through the arts in all subject areas • What does Learning Through the Arts really mean? • Look at some resources to support planning and inquiry for learning through the arts • Digging Deeper into Integrating the Arts into your TLCP

  6. Overall Focus of the Revision in the ARTS – Elementary (2009) • Arts as meaning making • Arts for exploration of feelings and ideas • Arts for communication

  7. Learning Continuums Expectations for Primary Grades - The arts program for Grades 1 to 3 focuses on the foundational knowledge and skills students need in order to learn through and about the arts. Expectations for Junior Grades - The expectations for Grades 4 to 6 focus on the development of students’ knowledge and skills in the arts and their ability to use the arts to understand, explore, and communicate feelings and ideas from and about their multicultural, multimedia environment. Expectations for Intermediate Grades - The expectations for Grades 7 and 8 focus on the consolidation of students’ knowledge, skills, and strategies in the arts and their ability to use the arts independently and effectively to enhance their learning in school and to communicate feelings and ideas about their multicultural, multimedia world.

  8. Engaging Students Through the Arts Student engagement is central to learning. Those students who are fully engaged are ready to learn in every way – physically, socially emotionally and intellectually.

  9. Knowing our students – Tiered Approach to Instruction

  10. Engaging Students Through the Arts The ARTS play a vital role in ensuring that students remain engaged by encouraging them to learn in physical and embodied ways, by inviting them to collaborate with peers, by requiring them to respond emotionally and by calling upon their cognitive capacities as they learn in, through and about the arts.

  11. What the Arts Teach and How it Shows • The ARTS teach Creative and Critical thinking • The ARTS teach children that problems and questions can have more than one solution • The ARTS celebrate multiple perspectives • The ARTS teach children that in complex forms of problem solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity • The ARTS makes vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition • The ARTS help children learn to say what cannot be said

  12. Thinking about Integration.... • Elementary generalist teachers address hundreds of expectations in each grade, in very diverse curriculums • Various initiatives mandated by the Ministry, school board and each school • Day to day stresses = not enough hours in the day! • Some of the reasons WHY we need to integrate…

  13. Thinking about integration.... • MORE IMPORTANTLY, brain research shows that people learn better in an integrated style. • When one learns a fact, the brain fits it into the bigger picture of knowledge. • We always try to make sense of new information in this way • The majority of our students are visual and kinesthetic learners and are more engaged through active hands on learning

  14. Thinking about integration.... • Each subject has a unique set of content knowledge and fundamental skills that students must grasp and be able to use. eg. Decoding of words, math computation, dance elements, historical time periods, scientific facts, etc. • The development of skills and knowledge in all subject areas is often enhanced by learning in other subject areas and in particular through the arts. • These skills can be taught within an integrated unit, contextualizing the skills for the learner, and therefore increasing their motivation to learn them.

  15. Thinking about integration....the ARTS • There are an endless amount of Arts strategies for teaching ALL curriculum subjects • Any idea, piece of knowledge, critical skill can be explored through the Arts. • Making broader connections for learning to BIG ideas through the Arts. • Getting kids thinking creatively, critically, seeking solutions and solving problems – 21st C learning • Gives students multiple ways to COMMUNICATE and DEMONSTRATE their learning

  16. What does learning Through the ARTS really mean? • Video – Arts Integration for deeper learning in Middle School • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPbKUF2zbyw • Critical Literacy through the Arts – some strategies…

  17. Engaging Students LearningThrough the Arts - Resources http://www.code.on.ca http://www.oaea.ca/index.html Ontario Music Educators Association http://www.omea.on.ca/

  18. Engaging Students Through the Arts - Resources http://resources.curriculum.org/arts/ http://my.hwdsb.on.ca/default.aspx

  19. HWDSB Arts Strategy HWDSB has implemented a system wide ARTS Strategy which emphasizes: • Our commitments to Students, Staff and Community in the ARTS • Quality ARTS instruction in each arts subject area, Equity of access, AND integrating the Arts into ALL subject areas as a highly effective instructional strategy to support student acheivement and student engagement

  20. Making Connections: SEF/SIP/TLCP • Fitting your ARTS programs into the school-wide goal • The Arts are specific subjects and disciplines to be taught and learned as valuable unto themselves

  21. Making Connections: SEF/SIP/TLCP However … • There are endless connections and opportunities to make learning meaningful, deeper and richer for students and provide teachers with high yield strategies for instruction and assessment through the ARTS in ALL subject areas. • Arts activities do not have to be extravagant to be relevant.

  22. Making Connections: SEF/SIP/TLCP And…. • The Arts deepen understanding of “BIG Ideas”, provide student experiential learning, provide choice and differentiation, increase engagement and motivation, and provide hands-on learning for students by Learning through the Arts

  23. Three ways of Seeing the Arts in a TLCP – Ideas that Matter… • Integration of the Arts in the Literacy and/or Numeracy TLCP – arts strategies for instruction • Forming Partnerships between the Arts Specialist teacher and a teacher of another curriculum subject area • The Arts as specific subjects and disciplines to be taught and learned as valuable unto themselves – An ARTS TLCP

  24. Literacy in the Arts • For many students the Arts are the doorway in…. or • The way they can best communicate or demonstrate their thinking in any subject…. • Opportunities need to be provided to allow all children to learn how they learn best and to be and feel successful – the arts provide endless ways to do this

  25. The Artist Within… “Until recently, the abilities that led to success in school, work and business were characteristic of the left hemisphere. They were the sorts of linear, logical, analytical talents….Today, those capabilities are still necessary, but they are no longer sufficient. In a world upended by outsourcing, deluged with data, and choked with choices, the abilities that matter most now are closer in spirit to the specialties of the right hemisphere—artistry, empathy, seeing the big picture, and pursuing the transcendent.” ~Dan Pink

  26. Literacy in the Arts • A place to start…many teachers begin by creating an arts based culminating task… asking students to create a poster, write a script, or create a song list to demonstrate learning. • It is important that students are given opportunity to explore and experiment within an art form, have explicit instruction in the arts form and scaffold the learning within the arts form for this to be authentic and successful learning for students.

  27. Literacy in the Arts • Next steps…. • Moving into instruction focusing on engaging daily learning and activities, providing choice in how students demonstrate their learning, and engaging students in creative and critical thinking instruction through the Arts to support all subject areas…

  28. Literacy in the Arts • Literacy is far more than being able to read and write. Because meaning is the core of literacy, it is the ability to decode and encode and think critically in any of the forms through which meaning is conveyed. • The ARTS are Meaning Makers!

  29. Literacy in the Arts • By incorporating daily arts strategies that enhance literacy learning, including integrated practices of making and appreciating, experiential learning, and connecting to BIG IDEAs through the arts, students have a broader realm to gain comprehension. • By using skills and ways of learning particular to the arts: visual literacy, aural literacy, kinesthetic literacy, critical literacy, musical literacy, social and cultural literacies, students have a far deeper understanding and depth of knowledge from which to demonstrate robust thinking and all that is required for meaningful assessment in a LITERACY classroom. • Students are actively engaged in their learning, and their thinking is far deeper and meaningful to overall learning – as a result achievement AND engagement go up!

  30. Learning through the Arts • We all have a contribution to make to arts education and there are many ways to bring the arts into the classroom • Ideally, the arts should be both integrated throughout the curriculum and taught as separate curriculum subjects. • The arts should be part of children’s daily school experiences as a key strategy to support student achievement and engagement • Some practical ideas….lets explore together….

  31. Finding something to try… • Critical Literacy Concepts and Strategies • Visual Literacy Concepts and Strategies • Kinesthetic Learning Concepts and Strategies – movement and body • Musical Literacy Concepts and Strategies

  32. TLCP Planning Support I am happy to help! Karen Wilkins Arts Consultant K – 12

  33. Think about this… Inside each of us is an artist.....that's what an artist is, a child who has never lost the gift of looking at life with curiosity and wonder. Art is not the exclusive possession of those who can draw, write poems, act, make music or design buildings. It belongs to all those who can see their way through all things with imagination. (Arthur Lismer)

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