Integrated Arts
I believe that integrated arts can be useful because it is an opportunity for students to have a variety of ways to evolve their understanding as well as communicating what they are learning. It also gives students a chance to learn material in developmentally appropriate ways. I believe that art also has the ability to make lessons in core subjects more interesting or can help students become interested in the core material because it is a way for students to explore their own ideas about something which will often pull them into wanting more information....thus the 'fact' and information part of the core lesson can evolve.
I believe that integrated arts can also take away from the creative aspects of art as final products are often required to be of a specified caliber and it also causes art to loose its distinction and singular gravity. I honestly have very little recollection of "art" because when we would work on a unit in elementary school it would regularly involve a paper and glue or a painting project. The outcomes were always pre-determined and often I just thought it was a part of the unit that we were working on rather that a creative 'art' experience.
The issues that I am encountering in my unit plan is that I am unsure if my activity will be intriguing enough and if it will hold my cousins attention. I was thinking about looking into science and other material that he is learning about in school but as I have written above I want this experience to be about art, his developmental discovery of self, and the Language Arts objective of learning how to express ones self through different media.
I am also wondering about the time line and if I can maybe get together with them on a couple of occasions.
These issues are always what I worry about with my class...HOW DO I KEEP STUDENTS ENGAGED? With the one student it is so much easier because I can manipulate the project so that it can be created just for him but when I am trying to meet the needs of a classroom of 35 students that is when I worry about adhering to the concepts that Dewey presents about student based inquiry. Plus I don't know how to entertain all of the students and also how to make a project that is constantly flexible for students who are above and below the developmental level of the age group while making sure that the project isn't a craft with expected outcomes but rather is a set of open doors.
With Declan I hope to ask him about what interests him and keep the project interactive I want to have many supplies ready such as craft materials pre-cut shapes, media for ideas such as Monsters Inc, and the Transformers movies. This way he will be able to choose what he feels like and if the length of the project is getting to be too much there will be options for breaks that are either physically active like swinging which is part of the beginning with the hockey stick and balloons and movies which are media and accesses yet another level of interest and possibility for idea stimulation. (when we ended up swinging we talked about dinosaurs and also about how he was doing in hockey which further incorporated the material in the project.
In a classroom I hope to make a couple of project ideas and present them to the students I love the idea of work stations as well because that gives students a chance to work on what they feel they want to work on and can do so in an interactive way that while it is always changing they can be projects that require personal ideas and persona taste. Perhaps like my cousin Declan though the project is about superheroes he made his into a dinosaur superhero so that he could incorporate his knowledge and interest in dinosaurs.
I believe that integrated arts can also take away from the creative aspects of art as final products are often required to be of a specified caliber and it also causes art to loose its distinction and singular gravity. I honestly have very little recollection of "art" because when we would work on a unit in elementary school it would regularly involve a paper and glue or a painting project. The outcomes were always pre-determined and often I just thought it was a part of the unit that we were working on rather that a creative 'art' experience.
The issues that I am encountering in my unit plan is that I am unsure if my activity will be intriguing enough and if it will hold my cousins attention. I was thinking about looking into science and other material that he is learning about in school but as I have written above I want this experience to be about art, his developmental discovery of self, and the Language Arts objective of learning how to express ones self through different media.
I am also wondering about the time line and if I can maybe get together with them on a couple of occasions.
These issues are always what I worry about with my class...HOW DO I KEEP STUDENTS ENGAGED? With the one student it is so much easier because I can manipulate the project so that it can be created just for him but when I am trying to meet the needs of a classroom of 35 students that is when I worry about adhering to the concepts that Dewey presents about student based inquiry. Plus I don't know how to entertain all of the students and also how to make a project that is constantly flexible for students who are above and below the developmental level of the age group while making sure that the project isn't a craft with expected outcomes but rather is a set of open doors.
With Declan I hope to ask him about what interests him and keep the project interactive I want to have many supplies ready such as craft materials pre-cut shapes, media for ideas such as Monsters Inc, and the Transformers movies. This way he will be able to choose what he feels like and if the length of the project is getting to be too much there will be options for breaks that are either physically active like swinging which is part of the beginning with the hockey stick and balloons and movies which are media and accesses yet another level of interest and possibility for idea stimulation. (when we ended up swinging we talked about dinosaurs and also about how he was doing in hockey which further incorporated the material in the project.
In a classroom I hope to make a couple of project ideas and present them to the students I love the idea of work stations as well because that gives students a chance to work on what they feel they want to work on and can do so in an interactive way that while it is always changing they can be projects that require personal ideas and persona taste. Perhaps like my cousin Declan though the project is about superheroes he made his into a dinosaur superhero so that he could incorporate his knowledge and interest in dinosaurs.
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