Arts Integration: Ideas for the Dynamic Classroom Teacher
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Copyright: 2016
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Copyright: 2021
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An essential guide that explores the building blocks for creating a productive and creative learning environment. Incorporating the arts into everyday classroom lessons increases the ability of a student to not only connect but master the content of the lesson. Student expression through the arts is as vibrant as the panes of glass in a stained-glass window. A teacher who embraces the arts in the everyday classroom encourages the students to reach their full potential and to develop their distinct purpose in life. The insightful stories taken from actual classroom experiences along with sound practical ideas in this book create a toolbox of inspiration for the dynamic classroom teacher. Applying the ideas and principle in Arts Integration: Ideas for the Dynamic Classroom Teacher encourages student success and a love for learning that will last a lifetime.
Arts Integration: Ideas for the Dynamic Classroom Teacher by Daryl R. Worley and Jodie H. Schenck features the building blocks to create a productive and creative learning environment. Integrating the arts is similar to creating a quilt in the classroom. A teacher who embraces the arts in the everyday classroom encourages the full potential of each student to recognize their distinct purpose in life in order to create the colorful patterns in the world around us. The insightful stories taken from actual classroom experiences along with the sound practical ideas presented in the book create a toolbox of inspiration for the classroom teacher. Applying the ideas and principles in Arts Integration: Ideas for the Dynamic Classroom Teacher encourages a classroom where children are moved toward a love of learning that will last a lifetime.
About the Authors
Foreword
Acknowledgment
Chapter 1 Art Is Expression
Sensory Teaching
Arts at Work
Evolution of Evaluation
Everyone Is an Artist
Chapter 2 Expression within the Arts
Artistic Expression Provides Unspoken Messages
Encouraging Artistic Expression within the Classroom
Art Is Expression for Young and Old Alike
Enemies of Creativity in the Classroom
Fear in the Classroom
The Impact of the Impressionist Movement
Chapter 3 Art in the Classroom
The Availability of Art
Aliens in the Arts
Natural Designers
Color, Texture, and Creative Expression
Understanding Shadows and Movement
Collage
Artistic Detail
- The Vocabulary of Visual Art Terms
- Vocabulary of Visual Art Elements
- Art Concepts and Design Principles
- Vocabulary of Balance
- Vocabulary of Color
- Vocabulary of Light
- Vocabulary of Space
Developing a Relationship with Art
How to Ensure Student Success
Chapter 4 Music in the Classroom
Music Is All around Us
Creating the Atmosphere for Learning
I Can’t Sing!!!
Instrumental or Vocal Music?
To Rap or Not to Rap
Children Are Hardwired for Music!
- Musical Feelings
- Music Represent the Times
Student Success
Music Miracles
Musical Elements
Musical Interpretation
- The Vocabulary of Music
Chapter 5 Theatre in the Classroom
Storytelling
Fables
Aesop's Fables
- Belling the Cat
- The Gnat and the Bull
- The Crow and the Pitcher
- The Wild Boar and the Fox
- The Fox and the Stork
- The Fox and the Leopard
- The Ant and the Dove
- The Wolf and the Kid
- The Bundle of Sticks
- The Donkey and His Master
- The Ants and the Grasshopper
- The Bear and the Bees
Imitation or Interpretation
- Interpretation
Creative Assignments and Rubrics
Creative Drama
Understanding Drama and Theatre
- Conflict
- Movement
- Pantomime
The Art of the Story
Bringing a Story to Life
Rehearsing a Play
Creative Dramatics and Children
- Theatre Lingo
Chapter 6 Integrating the Arts
The Need for the Arts
What Is Integration
Teaching Practices
Art-Focused Thinking
Travel Planning
Teaching Objectives
Never Judge Your Students!
Chapter 7 Appreciating the Arts
Loss of Dignity
Group Dynamics
Audience Behavior
Etiquette
Basic Rules for Audience Members
Students and Etiquette
Modeling in the Classroom
Keys to the Future
Chapter 8 Questions
Appendix A Art
Appendix B Music
Appendix C Theatre
Appendix D Integrated Activities
Appendix E Forms
Jodie H. Schenck A Texas artist with a BFA from Stephen F. Austin University, trained in studio art and art history as well as a Masters of Education from Texas Women’s University, Jodie is a passionate artist. Serving for over 27 years in the classroom Jodie continues to develop teaching methods that serve college students as well as junior high students. With a variety of teaching experience including, developing an art curriculum for a small private school, working with reluctant students seeking a GED including incarcerated students seeking an education and developing the minds of young junior high students who pass through the door of her classroom. In addition to teaching junior high students Jodie has taught developmental classes for a junior college and teaches future teachers at Texas A & M University Commerce. Jodie is hard at work writing a new book, Teaching Icons I Have Known. She resides in Texas with her husband Dave.
Dr. Daryl R. Worley A native Texan with a New Mexican influence. Born close to Amarillo, but raised in Clovis, New Mexico, Daryl was exposed to a variety of Artistic experiences in the classroom and the community. He holds a BSE from Howard Payne University where he majored in Education, Studio Art and Theatre with a minor in music. After teaching high school theatre for nearly 10 years, he entered the world of professional theatre as a director and producer of plays and musicals. Daryl graduate from Baylor University in 2006 with his Master of Arts degree in directing and began teaching at the college level and writing and directing plays. Daryl holds an educational doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Daryl teaches for Navarro College and Texas A & M University- Commerce as well as several other institutions as a guest professor. His published works include Theatre Through the Ages: An Introduction to Theatre as well as a cookbook and upcoming memoir and numerous professional journals. Daryl resides in Texas with his wife Christa and son Greerson.