Integrated Arts?

The Integrated Arts is a model designed to offer support, extension, and supplementary experiences in content areas through interdisciplinary arts activities. The Common Core Standards' emphasis on developing depth and rigor in thought and the ability to communicate relevant information with increasing skill provides the necessary impetus for this model. Content will be viewed through many lenses, allowing the entirety of relevant ideas to be processed and applied broadly and with added depth. Work with visual arts, music, drama, literature, writing, technology, and design will be incorporated and collaboration with classroom teachers will be ongoing. As Yeats wrote, "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". The Integrated Arts is an opportunity to light a very purposeful, very directed fire.

Friday, November 8, 2013

From the Heart





Not glazed, but on its way!


We've had some unanticipated transitions in our beloved second-grade classrooms this year. Though learning continues with strength, we also acknowledge that teachers are people to be valued and appreciated. With this in mind our second graders crafted large ceramic heart works that will be given as gifts to our teachers facing challenges. Yes, this lesson was about ceramic technique and composition. But it was also about being a citizen who uses their skills to give to those around us and particularly those who may be in need. 

Finished pieces will be fired in the kiln soon and then glazed to perfection before being presented to their recipients with accompanying writing.

Posted by at
Labels:

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)