Ages 5-16
The Arts Go To School: Classroom-based activities that focus on music, painting, drama, movement, media and more
David Booth & Masayuki Hachiya
Discover the power the arts bring to every aspect of learning!
Too often, classroom teachers face the challenge of teaching the arts without the background or support they need. The Arts Go to School explores every aspect of implementing and integrating the arts into both the curriculum and everyday life. It contains a wealth of classroom activities that help students give form to their thoughts and feelings.
This unique collection of activities, designed to bring learning to life, features each of the major art forms:
- music—from composing songs and the elements of music to novel approaches to singing songs
- visual arts— from exploring pattern, shape, colour and texture to special events that feature mobiles, collages and paper structures
- drama— from playing, moving, and imagining to communicating, improvising, and performing
- dance— from physical ways of conceptualising to dance as a problem-solving exercise
- media— from being intelligent media users and using interactive media to taking a media field trip
Checklists throughout the book provide handy reminders to key outcomes, and guide teachers in encouragement and assessment.
The Arts Go to School offers not only teachers, but all those running groups, the opportunity to use the arts to open up new possibilities, create a thirst for knowledge, and provide another way of thinking about, being in, and constructing the world.
Contents
Introduction; Implementing an Arts-Based Curriculum; Finding Yourself in the Picture: Visual Arts Education; Joining the Singing: Meaning Making and Music Education; Learning ‘In Role’: Drama in Education; Moving in the Circle: Dance Education; Plugging in the Arts: Media and Arts Education; When Teachers and Artists Hold Hands: Partnerships in Arts Education; Finale Voices from the Arts Community; Appendixes; Biographies; Recommended Resources; References; Index
2004 160pp paperback
978-1-55138-175-6
£24.99
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