. . the arts have been an inseparable part of the human journey; indeed, we depend on the arts to carry us toward the fullness of our humanity. We value them for themselves, and because we do, we believe knowing and practicing them is fundamental to the healthy development of our children’s minds and spirits. That is why, in any civilization—ours included—the arts are inseparable from the very meaning of the term “education.” We know from long experience that no one can claim to be truly educated who lacks basic knowledge and skills in the arts.
Discussion 1: Integrating the Arts
. . . the arts have been an inseparable part of the human journey; indeed, we depend on the arts to carry us toward the fullness of our humanity. We value them for themselves, and because we do, we believe knowing and practicing them is fundamental to the healthy development of our children’s minds and spirits. That is why, in any civilization—ours included—the arts are inseparable from the very meaning of the term “education.” We know from long experience that no one can claim to be truly educated who lacks basic knowledge and skills in the arts.
—National Standards for Arts Education
For centuries, people have been considering the value of the arts to the growth of the human mind and spirit. As educational funding is cut, the arts are often the first to be eliminated from a program. The arts are not always considered a priority or part of an essential path to healthy development and learning. This can create challenges to providing well-rounded, deeply satisfying learning experiences for young children.
For this Assignment, you will examine the funding for the arts through the perspective of an administrative position.
To Prepare:
After reviewing the Learning Resources for this module, consider how the arts are currently being integrated into early childhood settings and how the arts can promote healthy development and meaningful learning experiences. Identify additional resources that support the vital role the arts can play in development and learning when integrated into early childhood settings.
Next, imagine the following:
You are the director of a preschool or local school board who has been invited to give a presentation on why funding should be budgeted to support integrating arts in your learning environment. Using examples and evidence-based research, substantiate your thinking in order to move your perspective forward.
By Day 3 of Week 9
Post a write-up AND a PowerPoint presentation that addresses the following:
· A rationale for how the arts and creativity enhance children’s healthy development and learning
· How the arts can encourage social-emotional, cognitive, and even physical development and growth
· How the arts can promote meaningful learning experiences
· How integrating the arts can complement and enhance standardized curriculum
· At least 2–3 examples of how the arts can be incorporated into children’s daily learning experiences
The PowerPoint presentation should contain at least 5 slides and the written form should be at least 1–2 pages in length. Both forms of this Assignment should include at least 2 additional scholarly resources.
Part 2
By Day 7 of Week 9
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.
Respond to two or more of your colleagues’ postings as a member of the school board. Based on your colleagues’ arguments, would you vote for more funding for integrating the arts in early childhood programs? Why or why not?
Cite appropriate references in APA format to substantiate your thinking
Supports Discussion 1
Camilleri, P. (2012, January). Integrating drama and arts processes into everyday learning. Educating Young Children, 18(2), 37–39. https://ecta.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ECTA-EducatingYoungChildren-18.2-2012S
Garvis, S., & Pendergast, D. (2011). An investigation of early childhood teacher self-efficacy beliefs in the teaching of arts education. International Journal of Education and the Arts, 12(9), 1–16. http://www.ijea.org/v12n9/v12n9
Koralek, D. (2010, March). The performing arts: Music, dance, and theater in the early years. Young Children, 65(2), 10–13; 47–48.
Strauss, V. (2013, January 22). Top 10 skills children learn from the arts. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/22/top-10-skills-children-learn-from-the-arts/
Ward, K. S. (2014). Creative arts-based pedagogies in early childhood education for sustainability (EfS): Challenges and possibilities. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 29(2), 165–181.
Hancock, D. R., & Wright, S. W. (2018). Enhancing early childhood development through arts integration in economically disadvantaged learning environments. The Urban Review, 50(3), 430–446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-017-0440-y
Malone, K. L., Tiarani, V., Irving, K. E., Kajfez, R., Lin, H., Giasi, T., & Edmiston, B. W. (2018). Engineering design challenges in early childhood education: Effects on student cognition and interest. European Journal of STEM Education, 3(3), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.20897/ejsteme/3871
Todhunter-Reid, A. (2019). In-school arts education and academic achievement: A child fixed effects approach. Arts Education Policy Review, 120(2), 112–119. https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2018.1423595
Brown, E. D. (2020). The art of early childhood education. State Education Standard, 20(1), 14–20.
https://www.hekupu.ac.nz/sites/default/files/2018-05/11%20Jenson
The Importance of Art Integration in the Elementary Classroom
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RESPONSE 1
Katheryn Gonzales
RE: Discussion 1 – Module 5
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Integrating the Arts
The arts and creativity enhance children’s development and learning in many ways. Arts education is meant to develop the child holistically. As children explore the world around them, the arts are a holistic approach to support a child’s cognitive, social-emotional, and problem-solving needs (Jenson, 2018). Drama is credited with developing literacy, empathy and understanding, expressing emotions in a healthy way, and develops healthy social skills in children (Camilleri, 2012). The arts also develop confidence, problem solving, perseverance, focus, verbal and non-verbal communication, collaboration, and dedication (Strauss, 2013).
Arts education is beneficial to the development of the whole child. This includes social-emotional, cognitive, and physical development. For young children, the arts help to improve student readiness through emergent literacy, vocabulary, and oral literacy. Music and movement both involve language and patterns, which support literacy development (Koralek, 2010). The arts have been credited to supporting cognitive development by teaching young children how to solve problems, and by thinking “outside of the box” (Strauss, 2013). Children are also developing physically by engaging in activities that support their fine and gross motor skills (Hancock & Wright, 2018). Arts education also teaches students how to work in social settings by collaborating with others. This is a great social skill that will benefit young children as they become ready for school. Perseverance is another important social-emotional skill that children learn through the arts. Students will learn to persevere through challenges and not to give up when things get difficult.
The arts create learning experiences for children that support the development of all children. For example, creating an art project is meaningful to young children as they learn to use language appropriately. Creating lessons that incorporate visual arts is important when supporting cognitive development. Students construct knowledge by building on what they already know and understand. Using visual arts and art materials gives young children access to the world around them. Teachers can create a learning experience that encourages children to explore, be curious, investigate, and be creative with the world around them (Jenson, 2018).
The arts can also compliment state standards. Teachers can incorporate the arts into the curriculum in many ways. Teachers can use dance and body movements when counting with students. Teachers can incorporate dance into retelling a story by using different movements to represent parts of the story. Teachers can use music and a steady beat to teach rhyming words. According to Camilleri (2012), “…we tend to remember10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, 50% of what we hear and see, 70% of what we say and write and 90% of what we do” (p.37). The point is that adding movement and engaging students into the curriculum will only help them to remember what they are learning.
Incorporating the arts into a child’s daily experience is easier than one would expect. Music, dance, and singing are all easily incorporated into morning circle time. Singing songs about the months of the year and days of the week while using hand motions will teach students the calendar. Including a steady beat and rhythm into any lesson is also useful and keeps students engaged. Drama is a great way to work on social-emotional lessons by acting out emotions or as students come into the classroom, they can act out how they feel about being at school. Visual arts can be used to build creativity through developing a setting of a story while using dramatic play to act out elements of the story. The arts easily fit into the classroom.
Integrating the Arts.pptx
References
Camilleri, P. (2012, January). Integrating drama and arts processes into everyday learning.
Educating Young Children, 18(2). 37-39.
https://ecta.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ECTA-Educating
YoungChildren-18.2-2012S
Hancock, D.R., & Wright, S.W. (2018). Enhancing early childhood development through arts
integration in economically disadvantaged learning environments. The Urban Review, 50(3), 430-446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s112336-017-0440-y
Jenson, K. (2018, May). Early childhood: Learning through visual art. He Kupu, 5(3), 75-82.
Koralek, D. (2010). The Performing Arts: Music, Dance, and Theater in the Early Years. YC:
Young Children, 65(2), 10–13.
Strauss, V. (2013, January 22). Top 10 skills children learn from the arts. The Washington
Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/22/top-10-skills-children-learn-from-the-arts/
RESPONSE 2
Chukwunonyelum Eneje
RE: Discussion 1 – Module 5
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Module 5-Discussion 1-Integrating the arts
A rationale for how the arts and creativity enhance children’s healthy development and learning
The reason for how the arts and creativity improve the children’s healthy development and learning is that when children are engaged in the arts activities, it will help to support all their developmental domains (Mills, 2014).
The reason children’s development and experience are improved through arts and creativity is that it offers them alternative views from which they can approach educational challenges they meet in any setting (Todhunter-Reid, 2019).
When educators incorporate arts activities such as songs, drama, performances, it can help the children to better understand academics through unique illustrations on when there is no clear understanding using traditional education processes (Scott et al., 2012).
The arts can help children appreciate their backgrounds and confirm their social and cultural ways of knowing, and what was significant in their lives too (Scott et al., 2012).
The arts promote children’s development and learning through the following such as the ability to develop critical thinking or the ability to critique, helps them to know about the culture, helps them to have ways of creating connections between their ideas and the ideas of others, and offers opportunities for them to partake in creative activities that would motivate them to express themselves and to also open up other avenues of learning (Scott et al., 2012).
How the arts can encourage social-emotional, cognitive, and even physical development and growth
The arts experiences can support many aspects of children’s developmental skills are:
Physical development: children develop their fine and gross motor skills as they glue, draw, paint, write, cut, and play with clay, slime, play dough. Also, they can create collages from recycled materials such as magazines, newsletters, flyers, and use natural materials like leaves, pinecones, different types of sand, sticks, pebbles, stones, flowers for art projects. Also, activities that can support children’s physical development are dancing, activities that involve movement such as moving and shaking their bodies.
Language and literacy development: as adults when we practice continuous conversation with the children on their vocabularies by naming items such as collage, pink, large, big, etc. and they are responding to us through the art, this supports their literacy and language development.
Mental and Cognitive development: In creating engaging learning content in numeracy, colourful art patterns are used to decorate contents that are used to teach and engage the interest of children that have a phobia for Mathematics or enhance their likelihood of participation. Children express their understanding of the world around them through arts painting (Chiang et al., 2019).
The arts can support the social-emotional development of children when they can self-regulate and self-control themselves in any situation because this will help them to make choices and the ability to focus which is essential to future success (National Association for the Education of Young Children, n.d.). And children can develop socially and emotionally when they work, collaborate, negotiate and can solve problems as teams in activities such as drama, puppets show, group constructions (Mills, 2014). In addition, arts help the children to improve across various domains.
The arts can support children’s skills when they are actively participating in an activity such as music, demonstrating in a drama, practicing storytelling with their peers, etc.
How the arts can support the children’s skills are that they will have the ability to be creative such as using painting, drawing to represent a memory, composing poems to develop a piece of music, develop self-confidence that will make them say “I can do it”, and it enables them to be able to solve problems together as a team when problems arise in any situation.
Other ways the arts can support the children’s skills are it encourages the children to continue to persist until success is achieved, improves their innovation and decision making, and improves their investigative skills, creative skills, motor skills and focus, encourages cooperation during classroom activities. These traits mentioned above can be found in children when they engage themselves in arts activities such as poetry, drama, story, theater performances, dancing, decorations, sculpture, using beads to create pieces of jewelry, and other artworks (Strauss, 2013; Essel et al., 2017; Koralek, 2011 ).
How the arts can promote meaningful learning experiences
How the arts can support meaningful learning experiences for children is by providing inspiring opportunities for them to discover racial identities found in music, art, ritual, and holiday celebrations (Mills, 2014).
The arts can foster significant learning experiences when the children can use paints to paint an abstract picture of a character from a storybook.
When the children can invent soundtracks for crucial moments in a story individually and in group activities (Todhunter-Reid, 2019).
How the arts can foster meaningful learning experiences is when children practice and participate in drama and dance learning, they learn how to break down the mechanics of their body language. They experience diverse techniques of moving and how those activities communicate different feelings (Strauss, 2013).
The arts can support meaningful learning experiences for the children when they participate in activities such as creating self-portraits, learning about other countries’ arts, participating in singing, playing instruments, and dancing (Scott et al., 2012).
Also, these art activities for instance reading literature that is not read by them daily, visual arts, learning colour coding in mathematics activity supports children’s meaningful learning experience when they participate in them (Scott et al., 2012).
How integrating the arts can complement and enhance standardized curriculum
It will increase the children’s participation when the educators implement it in the classroom, educators can use it to teach toward children’s varying learning styles, and it will support the children’s creativity and self-expression, stimulate their critical thinking, support their development and learning positively (LaJevic, 2013).
When arts are integrated into the curriculum, it helps the educators to teach the children the educational content in inventive and exciting ways such as educators placing arts materials all around the classroom for the children to create their original artworks by themselves instead of offering them coloring in a worksheet, which may not incite critical thinking or learned as arts knowledge in them (LaJevic, 2013).
The educators can modify the curriculum to the children’s specific needs and settings and plan their lesson plans (Bers et al., 2019).
When educators implement the arts curriculum in their classrooms with the children, it improves their academic attainment as well as supports their skills that are needed to be competent in life (Scott et al., 2012).
How incorporating the arts can improve the curriculum is that it can be combined with other subjects such as science, mathematics, visual and creative arts, to open up a space of inclusiveness in the instruction, learning, and experiencing (LaJevic, 2013).
Another way incorporating arts complement and improve the curriculum is that it acknowledges the academic curriculum as a whole; it does not divide the program into different parts but celebrates the interrelating qualities between the subjects and the content (LaJevic, 2013).
When the educational and non-educational setting incorporates arts in the academic curriculum for the children, it prepares them with necessary skills that are needed for the competitions of this era and is also an effective way of promoting creativity in them too (Essel et al., 2017).
At least two examples of how arts can be integrated into children’s daily learning experiences
Arts can be integrated into children’s learning experiences every day through the use of technology such as the use of robotics education in classrooms. The children can engage themselves with the use of robotics in a playful and developmentally suitable learning experience that incorporates intellectual, reasoning, fine motor, hand-eye coordination, problem-solving skills, etc. The activities children can use the robotics for are using the robotic kits as manipulative and is like other old-style materials such as blocks, balls, beads- this type of activity can foster the children’s mathematical ideas, teamwork and cooperation. Other activities are children can use, design and program robotics as project work.
The educators can plan the curriculum to integrate robotics that can be used to provide dances around the world, music and culture around the world, games and stories around the world, etc as small and large group activities for children in the classrooms. The educators can add recycle materials, arts, crafts such as toothpicks, cardboard, toilet paper tubes, bottle lids, aluminum foil, books, etc to this activity for the children to draw, write what they learned from the music read the stories to expand their knowledge more about robotics and create artworks (Bers et al., 2019).
How the arts can be included in the children’s everyday learning experiences are through performances and drama that are appropriate for the age group the educators want to play with and should be related to something the children are already doing in the classroom (Koralek, 2011).
This type of activity encourages the children to move around in excitement, increase their knowledge about colors, songs, dancing, use instruments to make the performances interesting, tell stories, enjoy participating in their roles and dress up in their costumes. Many types of performances that can be done with the children and their educators such as puppet shows, family shows, kitchen shows, etc (Koralek, 2011).
The other arts that can be included in children’s everyday learning experiences are movement and music. As an educator I enjoy playing the music with the CD and different types of educational songs that children can use to practice how to sing songs, spell and learn words, move around their bodies, learn sounds, improve on their skills such as language, literacy, physical, etc (Koralek, 2011).
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MD5-Discussion 1-EDDD 8082.pptx
References
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