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Arts in Education & Visual Arts in Education Response

Artful Teaching:

Integrating arts into standard curriculums creates another place for both students and teachers

to learn. Art in the classroom creates a third place for everything. Integrating arts into the classroom

creates a studio habit for teachers. Art instills a different kind of teaching. Art should be placed in the

center of the curriculum. Physically making art adds value to whatever is being made. You can integrate

art into a classroom without being a perfect artist.

Experiencing the Arts:

Visual arts are arts that are hands on. This makes it essential for children to learn or participate

in art in the classroom. We live in a visual world and some people have adapted to learn visually. There

is a learning process to art, you work your way up from the bottom, and that is the way it should be

taught. Different elements of art are line, shape, form, value, texture, space, and color. There are

several different principles of design, this is exactly how an artist uses each element in the piece of

artwork. Studio thinking requires eight different types of habits. Art goes all the way back to the

beginning of time and there is a lot of art history. The culture of art has derived from its history.

There are many different types of visual art. However, things like coloring sheets, identical cute

crafts, and different holiday arts, are not visual arts.

Noteworthy Point:

Art is like any other subject, it is about something. When something is being thought about or discussed,

there is also a deeper understanding. Art can even be the central understanding. This stood out to me

because it shows just why art should be taught like any other subject. Like in reading, you learn from

reading an article, so from art, you learn from experiencing some type of art.

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Question:

How do you place arts in the curriculum without loosing necessary time for learning the actual

curriculum?