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9/7/2017 Yet the plain fact that we I guess being a teacher is being an artist in itself,
Reaves, M. What is have chosen to be if one looks at it this way. I have always said that
Creativity? [PDF teachers means we will being a teacher is being part educator and part
document] create many things. entertainer. From the lesson plans I develop to
Retrieved from (unnumbered) the actions and attitudes I exude in my
Lecture Notes classroom, I create a variety of things, mostly
Online Web site: planned, but others, not planned but rather, they
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tent/440290/viewCo Would a self-pronounced non-creative teacher
ntent/3111646/Vie change their opinion of themselves if they looked
w at creating lesson plans rather than just
writing lesson plans?
9/10/2017 Arts integration makes a Because we live in the 21st century, there is new
Silverstein, L. B significant contribution to knowledge, skills, and dispositions that children
(2017) the development of 21st should learn to prepare them for their present
What knowledge century knowledge, skills, and future lives. This knowledge, and these skills
and skills do and dispositions. and dispositions may not have been part of their
students need to be (unnumbered) teachers education at their same age, but
successful in the todays children are living in a world that
21st century? Arts launches new technology every day. As
integration provides educators, if we do not prepare our students for
answers. their future, they will not have the knowledge,
The Kennedy Center skills, and dispositions needed to thrive in the 21st
ArtsEdge. Retrieved century. A co-worker of mine gave me this quote
from by an unknown author, As teachers, we need to
https://www.msubo educate our students for their future, not our
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ntent/3111338/Vie How can teachers, taught with and to use
w traditional teaching strategies adapt to the
changes needed to educate the whole child,
without losing their way or becoming ineffective?
9/10/2017 If you walk around with a Being preoccupied with whatever is going on in
Popova, M. head full of ones life limits their life to mundane
(2011) preoccupation, youre not experiences. The consideration and exercise of
Michael Wolff on going to notice anything in ones visual life through developing the
the Three Muscles your visual life. muscles of curiosity, appreciation, and
of Creativity. (unnumbered) imagination, will create a mentally healthy
BrainPickings. person. It touches the inner part of ones being. If
Retrieved from one fills up their head with inner thoughts and
https://www.msubo does not look outside oneself for
nline.net/d2l/le/con encouragement, beauty, or emotion, there is no
tent/440290/viewCo room for exciting experiences or making
ntent/3111506/Vie connections with other people. A person
w becomes self-absorbed and often cannot or will
not enjoy the beautiful experiences or spice of
life available to them. Many times these people
become bitter toward what they think life has
handed them, but fail to realize, their lack of life
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reflects their own actions and narrow views. If
one is always looking down, they will never be
able to climb up.
9/10/2017 What few people realize Life is made up of many parts. All these parts
Popova, M. it is only through the parts come together to make the whole. If one of these
(2011) that the whole gets parts is missing, lacking, or over used, a lopsided
Michael Wolff on delivered. life emerges. I believe that a healthy life can only
the Three Muscles happen if all parts of life are balanced: physical,
of Creativity. emotional, social, mental, and
BrainPickings. spiritual/worldview. A persons worldview acts as
Retrieved from the axel of ones life and every other part their
https://www.msubo life revolves around it. Without a healthy
nline.net/d2l/le/con worldview, there is no propulsion to drive the
tent/440290/viewCo other parts. Remove any of the other four parts
ntent/3111506/Vie and there is a hole. Move the worldview off
w center by increasing one part over another and
life gets out of kilter. The delivery at the end of
ones life can be considered successful and
fulfilled, or a person looks back with regrets.
Works Cited
Stilton, G. (2015). Comprehension
pawbook, level 1. Scholastic.
9/22/17 Those who are challenge I like the concept that Cornett (2015) uses of the
Cornett, C.E. seekers ask lots of why, Two Is and seven Cs for Creative Inquiry. My
(2015). Creative what would happen if, and favorite is the second C, Challenge. I relate to this
meaning through how can questions: one, as Im sure many of the rest of you who
literature and the Teachers can encourage have children of your own do. This challenge can
arts: Arts this kind of curiosity by begin in children before they even start talking in
integration for teaching students how to complete sentences. I remember the constant
classroom capture fleeting idea Why? question my then two-years-old son
teachers (Fifth sparks through sketch would ask me after everything I said. I patiently
Edition). Boston, journals, idea notebooks, would explain, maybe for the hundredth time,
MA: Pearson. photograph albums, and why suchandsuch was, just to be asked again
websites like Pintrest. Why? As annoying as it was, I realize that this
(p. 60) questioning helped me to understand my child
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better just as he was learning to understand this
world better.
In this Meaning Mosaic, I tied to create the image of two ways a teacher can influence a childs
creative develop. Either the funnel can suck in a childs creativity and suppress it, or it can
expose the child to a colorful world of senses and increase it.