~Mayra
Monday, February 8, 2016
Week 4
The research conducted this week through Academic Search Premier yielded a lot of great information on my research topic, "The Importance of Integrating Visual Arts into Curriculum." I was unaware that this database was available through Leatherby Libraries' website. By searching "the importance of art when teaching" and limiting the results to Scholarly (peer reviewed) Journals, articles in the English language and in PDF full text I was able to find a great article; The Importance of Art Viewing Experiences in Early Childhood Visual Arts: The Exploration of a Master Art Teacher’s Strategies for Meaningful Early Arts Experiences written by Angela Eckhoff. The author followed teachers who are considered master art teachers by the Denver Art Museum during a museum-based arts education program for young children. When reading the article, I came across a lot of great information. I learned about the four main teaching strategies that the program's master teachers used to introduce and develop class conversations about artworks: game-play, questioning, storytelling, and technically focused talk. These teaching strategies made for a successful program and a fully engaged class. As I continue researching my topic I hope to learn all the different techniques and tools teachers use to teach art in their classrooms so that way I can feel more confident when teaching it myself. I believe that the use of visual arts activities can enhance any lesson and allows the students to express themselves in their own way without the fear of being "wrong".
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Hello Mayra,
ReplyDeleteI agree with your thoughts on how visual arts should be practiced more in schools. I had done a paper on the exact idea, arts play a very important part in a child's way of learning. Visual arts help bring out the inner thoughts of a child. When I was growing up, we always had visual arts in our school and the children always looked forward to that part of teaching because we got a chance to express ourselves, not to mention how much fun we had. Some children learn visually, not all are book worms. A lot of our famous painter and inventers excelled in visual arts, it is sad to me that our schools don't make that a part of their academics.