Arts-Based+Strategies


 * Arts‐Based Strategies **

The study of the arts helps students to develop the intellectual, creative, social, emotional, and physical aspects of their lives. Arts‐based strategies encourage students to understand and appreciate a variety of the forms of music, visual arts, drama, and dance. Such strategies increase students’ ability to think creatively and critically, enhance their physical coordination, and develop their ability to work independently or with others. Communication skills developed through the arts promote self‐confidence and intellectual and creative growth in all disciplines. The learning styles of students, particularly those of the visual‐spatial and bodily kinesthetic learners, can be accommodated through arts strategies in all subject areas. Through the application of arts‐based strategies to all disciplines, students learn to:
 * relate their own culture to other cultures (e.g., in history and classical studies);
 * communicate using art forms (e.g., in mathematics and science);
 * express feelings and ideas through art (e.g., dramatizing scientific concepts);
 * connect art to history, geography, language, culture, and human interaction;
 * experience art as a source of pleasure and learning (e.g., puppetry strategies for foreign language acquisition and practice);
 * understand relationships between disciplines (e.g., mathematics and music, design and visual arts);
 * use technology in art (e.g., three‐dimensional renderings, web pages).

• Ceremony • Mask Making • Chanting • Puppetry • Choral Reading • Reader’s Theatre <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• Choreography <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• Role Playing <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• Collage <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• Sketching to Learn <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• Docudrama