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ARTS in your Toolkit
Sent Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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Newsletter #65
for your practical wisdom and inspiration ARTS in your Toolkit
Dear , Songs to Educate is a response to a need.
The need, simply stated, is for teachers (of any background)
to be able to bring the arts back into the classroom. Stated better, it is to
be able to integrate the arts in the academic curriculum!
It is easier than one might think. It doesn't require going
back to college. It doesn't require a complete overhaul of the education
system. It doesn't require a lot of money. But
it does require a willingness to change,
to expand, to try new ways of learning, of teaching.
The Arts have been sidelined in schools in two ways: The second
is lack of funding. The first, however, is much more fundamental. It is to do
with how we 'see' the Arts. Music, Dance, Theater, Oratory, Poetry, Visual
Arts, Storytelling and Film are generally NOT seen as an essential integrated part of
education. No, the Arts in our education culture have become subjects themselves rather than a means
of integrated learning. This distinction is SO important.
The difference between studying the Arts and using the Arts as part of your
teaching toolkit is huge! It can change your life!
We want to help.
Arts Integrated
Education means employing the ARTS (all of them, not just visual) as a
means of learning! For everything you put on the wall or write on the
blackboard (or whiteboard, poster board or whatever) you can demonstrate in 3D
in the center of your classroom with your kids!
The ARTS are a means of expression. If you want to retain
something, give it away! Express it to get it!
By singing and moving to a thoughtful song about Geography,
Mathematics or the Human Body we develop springboards of introduction and
inquiry that children REMEMBER! They remember because they are using MORE of
themselves!
For every question there are multiple answers! How we go
about 'answering' a question, solving a problem, investigating a subject is
everything!
Process is everything!
By using the ARTS as part of your teaching toolkit, you are increasing
the learning capacity of your students exponentially.
The first ART is in how we use ourselves - our most
marvelous human equipment and faculties. Give your children a chance to 'teach' you
how to teach them!
~PAZ ***** |
Resources
Explore
Arts Integrated Curriculum *for Early Childhood
*for Primary
Explore our music and thematic curriculum for songs, dances and lyrics.
Watch THTF Videos - short documentaries for your inspiration!
Explore our blog - a rich source of education insights and tips for workshops.
Quotes
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take
you everywhere." -Albert Einstein
"GE hires a lot of engineers. We want young people who can
do more than add up a string of numbers and write a coherent sentence. They
must be able to solve problems, communicate ideas and be sensitive to the world
around them. Participation in the arts is one of the best ways to develop these
abilities." - Clifford V. Smith, President of the General Electric
Foundation
"Music is a more potent instrument than any other for
education, because
rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of
the soul." - Plato
Demonstrate - To
point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.
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