{"id":27,"date":"2009-09-20T12:46:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T16:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2014-12-09T10:46:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:46:31","slug":"art-teacher-blogs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/art-teacher-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Importance of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Art Speaks\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wBymeUm52pU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Schools&#8230;should not be boot camps for learning how to make a living, they should be places for learning how to make a life&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Art Advocacy - Let Them Be Heard\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NiBWeyvsr1A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Watch what students have to say about why art is important in school<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>Something to consider<\/h1>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>&#8220;Consider that 65% of the population are visual learners and 90% of the information that comes to the brain is visual. The brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text. Art education not only fills a critical gap in institutional learning, it also dovetails with the way in which we interpret the world.&#8221;<\/strong> <em>-Kranzler, \u00a03M Corporation<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>10 Lessons the Arts Teach<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">10. The arts&#8217; position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Dr. Elliot Eisner is emeritus professor of Art and Education at Stanford University. He is active in several fields including arts education, curriculum reform &amp; qualitative research.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><a href=\"#9\">top<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Benefits of Art Education in the Core Curriculum<\/h2>\n<p>There is a significant correlation between schools that have adopted the arts as central to the curriculum (i.e., taught every day together with other core subjects), and student achievement, both academic and in person growth.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Behavioral<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art is a real world experience. Learning by doing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art develops aspirations to achieve, to get better.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art requires hard work to perfect certain techniques demanded of the specific art form.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art requires discipline. (Mental; need for practice for proficiency.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Student discovers a particular strength of interest, generating an excitement about learning. He\/She becomes motivated, interested and involved in school. Boredom and alienation are eliminated, dropout rates are reduced.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Arts performance requires accountability, particular in a group.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Intellectual<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art requires intelligent thought.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art requires cognitive activity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art develops the imagination (where thought itself first begins). If you can imagine something you can make it happen. Not only art, but mathematical and scientific thinking is fed by the imagination. The process which brings about creative advances in science is identical to tat involved in artistic creation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Cognitive psychology suggests art requires multiple intelligences. (Gardner)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art broadens education beyond its current narrow focus. Art serves to enhance creativity in other areas, and balances the over-development of the left brain nature of Western society.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Practical<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Arts builds confidence and self-esteem.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art develops beneficial work habits.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art develops specific skills. These skills are needed in the business community, e.g. art provides students with the ability to organize thought and to speak and write well; to perceive not just analyze; to see the whole not just the parts; to deal with complexity and ambiguity. Art gives the student the capacity for sound judgments; enhanced reading skills; math and science reasoning skills; interpersonal development.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art elevates the tone of a school. (Students have higher sense of achievement.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art provides students with more rigorous education.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art promotes higher SAT scores.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Art provides better education at equal or lower cost. Students achieve more, learn more, grow enthusiastic about learning.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Through the study of the arts, students are able to:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Learning basic forms of communication.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Learn about the interaction among historical events, the arts and cultures of people, past and present<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Sharpen their cognitive sapacities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Increase their perceptual abilities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Learn to perceive subtleties and complexities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Learn to make assessments on the basis of standards and criteria.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Develop artistic judgments that will help them become discriminating consumers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Learn that problems have multiple solutions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Find opportunites to describe, analyze, compare, interpret, infer, generalize, and develop hypotheses.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Acquire multiple forms of literacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>In creating art, students are able to:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Unlock their creative potential.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Put ideas and thoughts into concrete and abstract forms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Develop problem solving skills.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Develop reasoning abilities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Develop and exercise judgment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Turn experiences into opportunities for exploration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Develop craftsmanship, organization and flexibility.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Develop skills for career and leisure time activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"#9\"><em>top<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a name=\"3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Education Through Art<\/h2>\n<p>When young children engage in expressive art activities, they &#8212;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Can give vent to thoughts and emotions in healthy, growth producing ways<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Gain a sense of accomplishment which helps move them along the path toward self-affirmation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Dare to try new ways of doing things<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Develop the ability to make choices<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Grow toward achieving independence and autonomy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Appreciate the value of tools in human hands<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Learn about the properties of a variety of materials<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Begin to accept and value the work of others as well as their own<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Heighten their perceptual powers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Grow to meet new challenges with greater flexibility<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Come to appreciate the aesthetic elements in their environment<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"#9\"><em>top<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a name=\"4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Children Learn Through Art<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Physical\/Perceptual Development<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Tactile-kinesthetic awareness<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Visual awareness information and ideas<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Spatial awareness<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Body awareness<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Eye-hand coordination<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Laterality and directionality<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Shape, size, color discrimination<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Figure-ground orientation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Part-Whole discrimination<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Fine motor control<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Technical skills<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Cognitive Development<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Clarify and elaborate meaning<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Associate, relate<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Sequence events<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Understand cause and effect<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Solve problems<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Make decisions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Generalize<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Communicate nonverbal<\/span>ly<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Social\/Emotional Development<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Sense of trust<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Sense of autonomy\/independence<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Sense of identity\/individuality<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Extend flexibility<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Aesthetic growth<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Appreciate and value others&#8217; ideas and work<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Express and deal positively with emotions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Share<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Cooperate<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Take turns (delay gratification)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Adapt to group needs\/intersets<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Resolve interpersonal conflicts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Acquire interests for leisure time<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Taken from the book\u00a0<\/em><em>Art: Basic for Young Children<\/em><em>\u00a0by Lila Lasky and Rose Mukerji. \u00a0(NAEYC publication)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"#9\"><em>top<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a name=\"5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What We Learn<\/h2>\n<h3>98% of what we teach using art, music, physical movement, and\/or drama<\/h3>\n<p>95% of what we teach someone else<br \/>\n80% of what we experience personally<br \/>\n70% of what is discussed with others<br \/>\n50% of what we hear and see<br \/>\n30% of what we see<br \/>\n20% of what we hear<br \/>\n10% of what we read<br \/>\n1% of what we do on a worksheet<\/p>\n<p><em>W.M. Glasser and Brain-Based Teaching and Learning<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"#9\"><em>top<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a name=\"6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Why Art Education?<\/h2>\n<p><em>From the Davis Publications Art Education Advocacy Guide, 2009-2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What does art education do for the individual and for society?\u00a0 Why do we teach art?\u00a0 How does art contribute to education at all levels?\u00a0 There are many good answers to these questions, but three stand out as crucial in today&#8217;s social and economic climate.\u00a0 We believe that art-and therefore art education-means three things that everyone wants and needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Art Means Work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beyond the qualities of creativity, self-expression, and communication, art is a type of work.\u00a0 This is what art has been from the beginning.\u00a0 This is what art is from childhood to old age.\u00a0 Through art, our students learn the meaning of joy of work-work done to the best of one&#8217;s ability, for its own sake, for the satisfaction of a job well done.\u00a0 There is a desperate need in our society for a revival of the idea of good work, work for personal fulfillment, work for social recognition, work for economic development.\u00a0 Work is one f the noblest expressions of the human spirit, and art is the visible evidence of work carried to the highest possible level.\u00a0 Today we hear much about productivity and workmanship.\u00a0 Both of these ideals are strengthened each time we commit ourselves to the endeavor of art.\u00a0 We art dedicated to the idea that art is the best way for every young person to learn the value of work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Art Means Literacy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Art is a language of visual images that everyone must learn to read.\u00a0 In art classes, we make visual images, and we study images.\u00a0 Increasingly, these images affect our needs, our daily behavior, our hopes, our opinions, and our ultimate ideals.\u00a0 That is why the individual who cannot understand or read images is not completely educated.\u00a0 Complete literacy includes the ability to understand, respond to, and dtalk about visual images.\u00a0 Therefore, to carry out its total mission, art education stimulates language-spoken and written-about visual images.\u00a0 As art teachers, we work continuously on the development of critical skills.\u00a0 By teaching pupils to describe, analyze, and interpret vis states it wual images, we enhance their powers of verbal expression.\u00a0 That is no education frill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Art Means Value<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You cannot touch art without touching values: values about home and family, work and play, the individual and society, nature and the environment, war and peace, beauty and ugliness, violence and love.\u00a0 The great art of the past and the present deals with these durable human concerns.\u00a0 As art teachers, we do not indoctrinate.\u00a0 But when we study the art of many lands and peoples, we expose our students to the expression of a wide range of human values and concerns.\u00a0 We sensitize students to the fact that values shape all human efforts, and that visual images can affect their personal value choices.\u00a0 All of them should be given the opportunity to see how art can experss the highest aspirations of the human spirit.\u00a0 From that foundation we believe that they will be in a better position to choose what is right and good.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#9\"><em>top<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a name=\"7\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Read more about the benefits of art education:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/04\/arts\/design\/04stud.html?_r=2\" target=\"_self\">The Role of Arts in Our Schools<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parenthood.com\/article-topics\/article-topics.php?Article_ID=9841\" target=\"_self\">What the Arts Really Teach Our Kids<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.self-help-healing-arts-journal.com\/art-benefits-brain.html\" target=\"_self\">Art and How it Benefits the Brain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artservemichigan.org\/press\/index.asp?page=A6EAD0E5AB0C447FA7121545EBEC70D5&amp;section=0F8EFED0004A44418415B5EE507C73F5\" target=\"_self\">Putting Art Back in the State Budget<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahsd25.k12.il.us\/~TriciaFuglestad\/VisualArt\/page14\/page15\/page26\/page26.html\" target=\"_self\">&#8216;ART-iculation&#8217; Art Video by Fourth Graders<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newhorizons.org\/strategies\/arts\/dickinson_lrnarts.htm\" target=\"_self\">Learning Through the Arts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newhorizons.org\/future\/Creating_the_Future\/crfut_fowler.html\" target=\"_self\">Every Child Needs the Arts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americansforthearts.org\/Public_Awareness\/Get_Involved\/001.asp\" target=\"_self\">10 Simple Ways Parents Can Help<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.princetonol.com\/groups\/iad\/lessons\/middle\/arted.htm\" target=\"_self\">Explore this gigantic list of art education links<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"#9\"><em>top<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Schools&#8230;should not be boot camps for learning how to make a living, they should be places for learning how to make a life&#8221; Watch what students have to say about why art is important in school Something to consider &#8220;Consider that 65% of the population are visual learners and 90% of the information that comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/artdepartment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}