Arts education and arts integration are two different things. I find that some people don’t quite understand this and therefore may feel unqualified or disinterested in learning about what they have to offer their students. Here, I am setting out to clarify a few things. Let’s get a couple of critical questions out of the [...]
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Today and Thursday I am happy to be sharing with you a collaborative post created by Yoon Soo Lim @doremigirl, Kyle Pace @kylepace, Michelle Baldwin @michellek107, Andrew Garcia @berkshirecat and myself about our experiences during and after our EduCon conversation about arts integration. (Please check out their blogs as well by clicking on their names.) [...]
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Sometimes the ones we need to convince of the power of arts integration are not the parents and community members, but the educators themselves. There are many educators who are skeptical, but even the ones who love the idea of the arts in schools are still hesitant to make it happen. Why is this? I [...]
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Some people may be wondering… why the arts? Why when we are so knee deep in preparing for standardized tests do we need the arts? Why when we are being pushed into using more and more technology do we need the arts? Why? Because we do! The arts mold our culture. They extend who we [...]
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For the past two months, our posts at The Inspired Classroom have been about arts educuation and integration. It has been a wonderful journey taken with many guest bloggers and readers that have commented and tweeted our posts. Because of the great body of content we have collected, I would like to take this post [...]
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As the span of two months comes to a close, I am amazed at the great insights I have seen from the guest bloggers and readers during this series on Arts Integration. I started the series with The Garden Philosophy, my philosophy of education written as a young ed student awaiting the opportunity to touch [...]
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What’s an “Elevator Speech”? It’s a short monologue that expresses something about which you are passionate. Imagine yourself in an elevator with someone who is talking with someone else or to you and then they strike that chord. “But the arts aren’t REALLY that important in education, right?” “How can you really learn anything from [...]
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In my last post, on Engagement, I was responding to a post by Jessica Wakefield called, “Learning In and Through the Arts.” The title reminded me of a text I was reading for an “Arts and Learning” CAGS course through Plymouth State University a few months back titled Arts and Learning by Merryl Goldberg. In it, Goldberg [...]
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I’ve just finished reading a post by Jessica Wakefield called, “Learning In and Through the Arts.” In it, she discusses the whole child and the importance of students’ engagement with the material they are learning. Research and years of experience reinforce the power of integrating the arts to engage students in every dimension of learning [...]
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