What kinds of thinking skills do I want my students

to develop?

What is Arts

Integration?

Why Arts Integration? - Addresses multiple-intelligences

- Engages community (exhibits, presentations, performances)

- Encourages Co-teaching, Innovative Curriculum and Differentiated Instruction

- Engaging for students – “authentic” activities

- Encourages students as Peer Teachers

- Overlaps with Project Based Learning

- Encourages culturally relevant curriculum

- Uses contemporary artists as a model for integrated thinking

- Develops 21st C skills: creativity, problem-solving, innovation

- Demonstrates understanding

The arts encourage a culturally relevant, student-centered curriculum,

which allows students to apply content to their own lives.

Art Skills

Student are able to:

•Demonstrate their knowledge of Perspective through photography- bird’s eye view, eye-level view, and worm’s eye view

•Manipulate and use multi-media in a collage

•Talk about the interaction between images and text

Academic Skills

Students are able to:

•Research a historical figure using at least 3 sources of information

•Present their figure and talk about why they were important to the time period

•Make connections between themselves and their chosen alter ego

Thinking Skills

brainstormedit

synthesizededuce

make connectionsenvision

problem-solve

Arts integration can expose students to contemporary artists, who naturally

integrate different content areas and use high level thinking skills.

Jenny Holzer

Theo Jansen

Creativity is linked to problem solving and innovation,

both 21st C skills.

Ken Robinson“It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp…nobody has a clue…what the world will look like in 5 years time and yet we’re meant to be educating [our students] for it.”

“You’ve been steered away from things in which you wouldn’t get a job, which is now extremely mistaken.”

“Creativity, the process of having original ideas that have value…comes about from the interdisciplinary way of seeing things.”

The arts demonstrate students’ understanding.

What is Metaphor?

Frida Kahlo, “Little Deer”

Mark Ryden, “Saint Barbie”

“The arts are not something to add to the plate. The arts ARE the plate. The key to student engagement.

And communicating what students know and can do.”

- Dr. Milton Chen, Edutopia

What will arts education and arts integration

look like at your school?

* Arts Specialists (definitely at HS level)

* Arts Organizations & Artist Residencies (maybe present) – more likely to do arts integration with classroom teachers