Arts+Education

Placing the magic in the classroom TPCK in arts education

Incorporating art into the classroom can come in many forms. Integrating art can consist of visual arts, technology, music, dance, drama, and media. This chapter gave a great deal of information and resources as to how to go about creating lessons and curriculum around the content of art to help your students be more expressive and creative in their personal learning. Introducing and incorporating art into a classroom helps to reach all learners and abilities and requires students to engage in opportunities through self-expression and self-exploration.

Positive Aspects of Integrating Art:
 * Every single one of the 21st century skills can be enhanced through arts education.
 * Many felt that the websites provided throughout the chapter were a great resource and helped give ideas as to how to go about incorporating art into their own teaching.
 * Technology is a very important part of integrating art into the classroom. The Internet is a great source to allow for students to access material that they would not be able to otherwise.
 * Technology can be used to create projects such as I-photo, I-movie, Google Sketch-Up, Comic Strip, Garageband, etc.
 * “Technology provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of the imagination” (p. 189).

**Resources**

__**Visual Arts**__

[|www.crayola.com] - overall arts education website for teachers, students, and parents [|www.albrightknox.org/artgames/index.html] - for children ages 4-12 focusing on portraits, still lifes, landscapes, color, and materials [|www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org] - for K-12 teachers, this site offers standards-based teaching materials [|www.nga.gov/education/classroom] - for classroom and visual arts teacher offering lesson plans and activities [|www.kinderart.com] - offers free art lessons for every age. [|www.pbs.org/art21/] - for teens offering videos of interviews with contemporary artists

__**Music**__

[|www.musicnotes.net/ti.html] - introduces music literacy into the classroom

__**Dance**__

[|www.asiasource.org/cambodia/] - videos featuring dances across Asian cultures [|www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/archive.html#search] - videos featuring different dance styles [] - offers a plethora of dance videos [] - dance lesson plans for PE teachers [] - music games for Pre-K and early elementary

__**Drama**__

[] - teachers and students can explore the art of shadow puppetry [] - offers production ideas and lesson plans for school drama programs

__**Media**__

[|www.edweek.org/grants] - offers grants to provide technology tools for classroom [] - a tool for families and teachers for instructing students how to manage the technology in the 21st century.

__**Maine Links**__ [] _this link goes to an art teacher's blog and contains a list of other art teachers blogs in Maine [|http://www.vsartsmaine.org/resource_schools.htm]--VSA arts of Maine is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing arts, educational and cultural opportunities for children and adults with disabilities in Maine. Through innovative and inclusive arts programs, VSA arts of Maine promotes the creative power in people with disabilities. []--This is the Visual and Performing Arts section of the Maine Dept of Education. Check out the Portaportal link, even more art teacher stuff in Maine. []--A fine example of a community arts web-site.