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Explore how the arts engage learners and foster essential skills such as wonder, passion, and adaptability in students. The DREAM Institute focuses on integrating arts to enhance reading education and student engagement.
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ARTS INTEGRATIONRe(engaging) Students through the Arts Merryl Goldberg DREAM Summer Institute 2011
I have never met a kid without potential I have met a lot of kids without opportunity
"We cannot capture people's minds, we must engage them." Admiral Mike Mullen, speaking of his time in Afghanistan, in Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
Where in World is Matt?! Matt's video
Quick Write: How did Matt’s video make you feel and why? Did it engage you?!
Top Ten List: How arts engage learners
1) Wonder “If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.” Rachel Carson from her book, The Sense of Wonder
2) Desire As humans we have natural longing to learn and be curious. The arts naturally tap into and support desire….and desire to learn.
3) Passion “If we do not treasure our individualists, we will lose the spirit of innovation, inquiry, imagination, and dissent that has contributed so powerfully to the success of our society…” -Diane Ravitch
4) Grace Learning through the arts can promote understanding, compassion, and even an awareness of being thankful.
5) Risk “Risk heightens learning at effective youth-based organizations. While public rhetoric laments the fate of ‘at-risk youth,’ our research reveals how youth depend on certain kinds of risk for development. Rather than live at its mercy, youth in arts organizations use the predictability of risks in the arts to intensify the quality of their interactions, products, performances. “ Shirley Brice Heath Accepting and embracing challenges enables risk-taking – and risk taking is a core element of creating art.
Quick Talk Which word stands out for you and why?! Wonder, Desire, Passion, Grace, Risk
6) Confidence The arts can be extremely empowering – an especially important attribute for girls! Susan Boyle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk
7) Ownership I can do it!!!! The arts teach how to make choices and evaluate the results of the choices.
8) Responsibility: Relationships and Community “Relationships with our teachers, peers, and families are a remarkable and powerful force in our development, whether positive, negative or somewhere in between. Developing and creating a sense of a positive community is it is an essential ingredient for successful learning, not simply a feel-good attribute.” -mg (blog for AFTA) The performing arts especially, function as a way to build responsibility, relationships, and community. Through community, learning can blossom.
9) Adaptability In creating any kind of art, adapting is a constant. Creating priorities and embracing consensus is often an underlying aspect of the performing arts. In arts there are challenges and failures, and artists learn to move forward with both.
10) Complexity Artists accept, and embrace that life is not either/or. “Artists as “boundary crossers reject either/or choices and seek multiple options and blended solutions.” -M. Csikszenmihalyi The arts let us explore "the beauty of ambiguity." - Leonard Bernstein
Quick Talk Which of the last 5 top ten ideas resonate with you?! Confidence, Ownership, Responsibility, Adaptability, Complexity
DREAMDeveloping Reading Education Through Arts Methods Primary Goal: Engaging students in reading through visual Arts and theater Integrating the Arts – the motivating tool for engagement and authentic tool for assessment of student learning
Arts Integration Learning through the arts Learning with the arts Learning about the arts
