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Research that supports the arts in the classroom:
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This site explores the arts in early childhood, grades PreK through third!
We will dive into music, visual arts, dance, and culture. Please look around this site and learn how to incorporate these subjects into the every day classroom!
"The benefits of the arts are shown across a wide spectrum, from fine motor skills to creativity to improved emotional balance and brain development. Over all, the arts enhance the process of learning. The systems they nourish include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities. These systems are the driving force behind all other learning. The arts provide learners with opportunities to simultaneously develop and mature these multiple brain systems. Some other benefits of art is that they reach students who are not ordinarily reached, which keeps absences, drop outs, and tardies down. It also allows students to connect to each other. The arts provide challenges for students at all levels. It changes the classroom environment to discovery.It connects students to the real world. Students from lower socioeconomic status gain as much or more from arts instruction than those of higher socioeconomic status. Lastly, students learn to become sustained, and self directed learners.
But what makes art a major discipline? Assessing the arts can and has been done. Art is brain based. Brain research in each of the three subdisciplines (visual/musical/kinesthetic) has located anatomical structures dedicated to processing specific art experiences. The art promotes an understanding and sharing of culture. There is a minimal or zero downside risk of art as a major discipline. Art can be learned and mastered by an overwhelming majority of students. Art helps communities survive, share, establish, enhance, and define culture. And lastly, the discipline is wide ranging. It has several subdisciplines, for example: singing, composing, and listening all fall under musical arts.
There are several schools that have seen success with infusing the arts. The Waldorf Schools, an independent, arts centered institution, has seen success for over 50 years. There are 130 of the schools in the US and 700 worldwide. Other example schools include: Anza Elementary School, Eliot Elementary School, and Davidson Middle/HIgh School." (p. 2-12, Jenson)
