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Integrating the Arts in the Classroom

The Teacher's Academy has launched an 18-hour course titled 'Integrating the Arts in the Classroom' aimed at helping teachers enhance their lesson plans with creative art projects. The document outlines five fun integration activities, including music, theater, dance, visual arts, and sculpture, that can be easily implemented in classrooms to enrich learning experiences. Additionally, it encourages teachers to pursue professional development during the summer to meet their educational requirements.

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Integrating the Arts in the Classroom

The Teacher's Academy has launched an 18-hour course titled 'Integrating the Arts in the Classroom' aimed at helping teachers enhance their lesson plans with creative art projects. The document outlines five fun integration activities, including music, theater, dance, visual arts, and sculpture, that can be easily implemented in classrooms to enrich learning experiences. Additionally, it encourages teachers to pursue professional development during the summer to meet their educational requirements.

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INTEGRATING THE ARTS IN THE CLASSROOM: 5

FUN ACTIVITIES FOR BUSY TEACHERS

 June 22, 2017


 Posted by: The Teachers Academy
 Category: All Blog Postings Educator Resources / News Online Courses
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The Teacher’s Academy has just released their newest course, Integrating the Arts
in the Classroom. This fun 18-hour course is designed to help teachers “spice-up”
their current lesson plans with some outside-the-box art projects. The course starts
off with a little inspirational music (by Metallica of course) and then progresses
through the importance of art in education. Teachers will develop their own definition
of the arts, learn about the value of the arts in education, understand how the
standards support the arts, and even create a few of their own art-inspired projects!
We understand how busy teachers are so we took 5 quick, fun integration activities
from the course to share in this blog… Enjoy!

#5: Music Integration Activity


Activity: Add music to enrich your read aloud books, fiction or non-fiction literature,
poetry and teach literary devices.

Skills: Literary devices, critical thinking, memory

Applied in the classroom: Students studying the social, economic and political
events of the 1920s were exposed to music, rare video and artwork to further bring
the era to life. Students got to listen to the music of the times while writing their own
stories!

#4: Theater Integration Activity


Activity: Improvisation – give students a setting and let them react without a script.

Skills: Connect to characters, core-content comprehension, communication,


language, vocabulary and presentation, public speaking and listening

Applied in the Classroom: In a circle, students are given a story starter. The
teacher chooses one student to begin the story and the students point to their peers
to continue the story when cued by the teacher. Add parameters to the game to
increase the challenge and encourage critical thinking and problem solving…Must
use a new vocabulary word, must incorporate certain parts of speech, must speak
from a historical person’s point of view, etc.

#3: Dance Integration Activity


Activity: Interpretive Dance – Students use movement to teach letters, language or
math concepts. Students form letters or actions with their bodies and display
knowledge of math concepts like symmetry. To incorporate higher-level academic
concepts, students can perform interpretive dance to “act out” events in history or
scientific theories.

Skills: Communication, core content, language, vocabulary, and presentation skills

Applied in the Classroom: Students were asked to show understanding of


symmetry through dance movements. One student chooses a position, a partner
student must replicate that position. If one student moves, the other must move.
Students take turns choosing positions to show symmetry, parallel lines, intersecting
lines, angles, etc.

#2: Visual Arts Integration Activities


Activity: Drawing Poetry
Skills: Listening, language, poetry, drawing, motor skills, connection to poetry,
critical thinking

Applied in the classroom: Students were read a poem and asked to sketch or draw
what they heard in the poem. Students could make their own interpretations of the
author’s message and articulate how they connected with the poem. The activity
could be altered by selecting a passage from a novel or content area.

#1 Fine Arts Integration Activities


Activity: Sculpture and Writing

Skills: Writing, observation, communication, memory, descriptive language

Applied in the classroom: Students were asked to create a sculpture based on a


profession then write an opinion piece about the profession. This activity could be
altered to use paints or digital photography. The subject could be a core content
topic, book review, word problem. For example, students could create 3-D models of
plant and animal cells or dioramas of important events.

A few more integration activities…

 Playing/ Making Instruments


 Chanting, Rapping
 Listening to Music / Poetry
 Composing Music, Songs
 Drama Games / Charades
 Pantomime, Puppets
 Move to Words, Poetry or Ideas
 Popular and Creative Dances
 Clay / Sculpture
 Photography
 Textiles
 Research Artists
 Research Works of Art

This is just a small sampling of what teachers will receive when they open
the Integrating the Arts in the Classroom course. Teachers, you do not have to be
an expert in the arts to deliver an effective, integrated art activity! Have fun with your
students and enjoy teaching with the arts.

Need Professional Development? Now is the


Time…
The summer is not only a great time for teachers to catch up on reading, but also to
get started (or finish up) those pesky professional development requirements. It does
not matter if teachers live in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Houston, Bloomington, Detroit,
Green Bay or Nashville, our courses are downloaded to computers so teachers can
work from anywhere in the United States!

Check out our Online Course Catalog for the most relevant, affordable and
convenient professional development courses, created by teachers for teachers.

Click, Find Your State for specific details on professional development from your
department of education.

Have a great summer, teachers!

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