A picture is worth 1,000 words and as far as I’m concerned, I could talk about the works of Norman Rockwell all day! I love his work: his ability to capture reality, innocence, truth, humor and the overall American spirit. This year, I’ve been reaching into my collection of Norman Rockwell prints (most in the [...]
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This week, I wrote a guest post for Jessica Balsley’s website Art of Education. She is an art teacher who provides many resources and ideas for other teachers interested and invested in arts education. I decided to stay with my focus on arts integration and cater to her major audience – art teachers. Here is [...]
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While in Sicily, Elizabeth Gilbert tries to understand a piece of the pleasure seeking Italian culture. In her book, Eat, Pray, Love, she refers to Luigi Barzini, an Italian journalist and author of The Italians who provides her with a large piece of the puzzle. She writes, “Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, [...]
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I teach with some very talented people. Take the other teachers on my fourth grade team: one is a great artist, one is a pianist and singer and the other wows me at every staff meeting as she sketches boarders around her notes. And I think to myself, do their students know this about them??? [...]
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Thank you for sharing this story. It is a true testament to arts education and the values of all arts-infused learning. As a teacher, I hope I inspire my students to develop these skills that are intrinsic to the arts. Not just in arts education, but in arts integration is this possible. These are the [...]
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One idea I keep coming back to in my mind from reading Dewey is this. Actually, let me back up. My prob is that I keep thinking that Dewey is defining all experiences as art and it is confusing me. Does that mean that walking down the street is art if you have had an [...]
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I am reading this as part of a course I am taking and I’ve come across some interesting revelations in reading it, pondering it and discussing it with my teacher. Experiences – they occur all the time, in fact, according to John Dewey life is a string of continuous experiences. He does however differentiate between [...]
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