WGU C105 Elementary Visual and
Performing Arts Methods: Development
& The Arts
10 Building Blocks of successful arts integration (AI) ✔✔1. Philosophy of education
2. Arts literacy: content and skills
3. Collaborative planning
4. Aesthetic learning environments
5. Literature as a core art form
6. Best practices
7. Instructional design: structure and routines
8. Differentiation
9. Assessment for learning
10. Arts partnerships
AI central beliefs include.... ✔✔1. strong values for diversity,
2. creative inquiry,
3. active learning (heads-on, hearts-on, hands-on learning), and
4. student independence
How is Arts Integration philosophy divided? (otherwise known as the five Ps) ✔✔It is divided
into....
1. people,
2. places,
3. principles of learning,
4. programs, and
5. pedagogy.
, What are the basic beliefs about pedagogy? ✔✔They are summarized by using the six Ts of
effective teaching:
*Talk.
*Tasks.
*Texts
*Time
*Transfer
* Tests (students "show they know.")
Characteristics of Artful Teachers ✔✔• Enthusiasm for engaging and stretching all students
through the arts
• Desire to learn new research, theories, and methods related to the arts
• Passion about the power of the arts to transform student learning
• Flexibility to change schedules and materials and take advantage of teachable moments
• Openness to experiment with creative variations on strategies
• Collaborative planners willing to co-teach with artists
• Creative problem solvers who seek diverse solutions to learning problems
• Optimism about teaching and reaching all children through instruction that is differentiated using
arts-based strategies
• Humor to create a positive learning climate and to deal with problems
• Artistry in which one-of-a-kind imprints are made on each child by the teacher's unique
personality and style
• Mentorship of students by sharing personal abilities and interests (e.g., teachers who play
instruments, write poetry, paint, or dance), which causes students to choose to apprentice
themselves to these "masters"
• Relationships with students that form the core of classroom discipline
• Courage/confidence to make mistakes and not be threatened by the opinions of nay sayers
AI embraces a ______ view of learning ✔✔developmental/constructivist
Important constructivist tenets embodied in AI ✔✔1. Communication
Performing Arts Methods: Development
& The Arts
10 Building Blocks of successful arts integration (AI) ✔✔1. Philosophy of education
2. Arts literacy: content and skills
3. Collaborative planning
4. Aesthetic learning environments
5. Literature as a core art form
6. Best practices
7. Instructional design: structure and routines
8. Differentiation
9. Assessment for learning
10. Arts partnerships
AI central beliefs include.... ✔✔1. strong values for diversity,
2. creative inquiry,
3. active learning (heads-on, hearts-on, hands-on learning), and
4. student independence
How is Arts Integration philosophy divided? (otherwise known as the five Ps) ✔✔It is divided
into....
1. people,
2. places,
3. principles of learning,
4. programs, and
5. pedagogy.
, What are the basic beliefs about pedagogy? ✔✔They are summarized by using the six Ts of
effective teaching:
*Talk.
*Tasks.
*Texts
*Time
*Transfer
* Tests (students "show they know.")
Characteristics of Artful Teachers ✔✔• Enthusiasm for engaging and stretching all students
through the arts
• Desire to learn new research, theories, and methods related to the arts
• Passion about the power of the arts to transform student learning
• Flexibility to change schedules and materials and take advantage of teachable moments
• Openness to experiment with creative variations on strategies
• Collaborative planners willing to co-teach with artists
• Creative problem solvers who seek diverse solutions to learning problems
• Optimism about teaching and reaching all children through instruction that is differentiated using
arts-based strategies
• Humor to create a positive learning climate and to deal with problems
• Artistry in which one-of-a-kind imprints are made on each child by the teacher's unique
personality and style
• Mentorship of students by sharing personal abilities and interests (e.g., teachers who play
instruments, write poetry, paint, or dance), which causes students to choose to apprentice
themselves to these "masters"
• Relationships with students that form the core of classroom discipline
• Courage/confidence to make mistakes and not be threatened by the opinions of nay sayers
AI embraces a ______ view of learning ✔✔developmental/constructivist
Important constructivist tenets embodied in AI ✔✔1. Communication
