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“the compatibility of arts integration methods with newer research findings about learning including personalization, repetition and reinforcement through multiple modalities, fluency with symbol systems, and the continuum of stages from concrete to representational to abstract.”21
I love this quote! It highlights how research is showing that arts integration helps enhance learning. I think with the point of repetition I think of the songs I have learned in my math classes to memorize formulas. I learned songs from 4th grade on that I still remember. The repetition within the song as well as repeatedly singing the song as a whole helped me to memorize the content I needed for my classes.
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Teachers … described learning about students through their art work as an illuminating and important outcome of the arts integrated units in their classrooms. The works that emerged made visible students’ backgrounds, understandings, and skills that often had been hidden, allowing teachers to see how they could build on what students know and to engage them more actively in learning.”26
I completely agree with the quote. Art provides a unique view into our students’ minds, that helps us get to know our students on a deeper level than we traditionally would. By understanding our students better through their artwork, we can tailor our instruction to be more engaging and effective. I think that using art activities to help get to know the students and to help the students get to know each other can help create a classroom community.
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An aspect of personalized learning described in this Whole Child tenet is getting timely feedback from teachers. As students move through the creative process to imagine, create, rehearse, and share their work, teachers continually monitor student work, providing in-the-moment feedback to help students clarify and refine their work.
This is something I want to incorporate into my classroom. I think mentoring students trough the creative process can allow them learn through the process and create a better end result. Doing this with elementary school students specifically helps prepare them for their secondary education where they are required to work more independantly.
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Arts integration, as an approach to teaching, supports many tenets for the development of the whole child by providing emotional safety and promoting full engagement in learning that is personally meaningful and challenging.
I love the way this is worded. I like the focus that arts integration helps subject become personally meaningful to the student. The arts help us to connect and establishing connections between content and the students is the main job of teaching. Making this connection personally meaningful creates a stronger understanding and helps the student to retain the information. What are times that a subject or topic has become more personally meaningful to you because of the arts or arts integration?
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