{"id":10,"date":"2023-01-22T22:19:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/sacreativelearningnetwork\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2023-06-29T14:41:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T13:41:20","slug":"creative-learning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/sacreativelearningnetwork\/creative-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Learning through Arts Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arts Education<\/strong> can inspire, excite and empower learners. It can provide a strong connection, helping educators incorporate the arts as a powerful tool to support learning across the curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kennedy Centre for Education<\/a> (Washington USA) has a range of professional readings, articles and video to support creative learning pedagogy. These ideas have been proven to engage and uplift learners in a way which sparks curiosity, builds empathy and emboldens citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Articles below have been grouped into those of most interest to teachers and school leaders, but of course all articles may be of interest across both groups.<\/p>\n<p>Click links to access specific articles (links open in a new browser tab)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Support for teachers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/collections\/arts-integration-resources\/creating-a-topic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creating a Topic<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Explore how arts integration connections are made. Examples of successful connections between different arts disciplines and identified curriculum concern\/need.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/collections\/arts-integration-resources\/arts-integration-in-practice-cross-curriculum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arts Integration in Practice: Cross Curriculum<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Examples of arts integration strategies that are adaptable to a wide range of curriculum areas. Short conversational interviews with teachers who use arts integration strategies that have been applied successfully across curriculum areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/collections\/arts-integration-resources\/arts-integration-in-practice-language-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arts Integration in Practice: Language Arts<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Explore arts integration connections to visual narratives, poetry, musical compositions, dramatization and oral performance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Classroom examples for integrating language arts and drama, history and puppetry.<\/li>\n<li>Short conversational interviews with teachers who provide examples of connections between language arts and visual narratives, poetry, musical composition and dramatization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/collections\/arts-integration-resources\/arts-integration-in-practice-social-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arts Integration in Practice: Social Studies<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Powerful connections between history and portraiture, drama\/tableau, puppetry and music<br \/>\nShort classroom examples for integrating social studies with drama, visual art and writing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/collections\/arts-integration-resources\/arts-integration-in-practice-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arts Integration in Practice: Science<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Exploring strong arts integration connections between science and story dramatisation, choreography and dance with short classroom examples.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/collections\/arts-integration-resources\/arts-integration-in-practice-math\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arts Integration in Practice: Math<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Exploring strong arts integration connections between maths, music and dance with short classroom examples.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>For School Leaders:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/collections\/arts-integration-resources\/arts-integration-and-21st-century-skills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arts Integration and 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Skills<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Explores how Arts Integration can support skills development \u2013 Creativity and critical thinking.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/collections\/arts-integration-resources\/arts-integration-and-universal-design-for-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arts Integration and Universal Design for Learning<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Explore the powerful alignment between arts integration and three principles that guide UDL.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/collections\/arts-integration-resources\/why-arts-integration-explaining-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Arts Integration- Rationale<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Creating a rationale for arts integration \u2013 the What? and Why?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/collections\/arts-integration-resources\/why-arts-integration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Arts Integration \u2013 Perspectives<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Exploring various viewpoints about the value of arts integration &#8211; short conversational interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/collections\/arts-integration-resources\/current-topics-in-arts-integration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Current Topics in Arts Integration<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; A selection of articles covering current approaches to arts integration in the classroom, inclusion, rigour and adopting and arts integration approach, these include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/educators\/professional-development\/fostering-a-culture-of-connection-through-the-arts2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fostering a culture of Connection through the Arts<\/a> \u2013 embedding arts into culture and climate of schools\n<ul>\n<li>Explore the importance of prioritising connections<\/li>\n<li>Learn ways to sharpen relationship skills with the arts<\/li>\n<li>Discover how to weave the arts into the fabric of schools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/educators\/professional-development\/how-teachers-can-transform-learning-in-inclusive-arts-integrated-classrooms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How teachers can transform learning in inclusive Arts \u2013 Integrated classrooms<\/a> \u2013 bolster engagement with arts integration by adapting time, classroom tools and instructional techniques, including:\n<ul>\n<li>Explore how increasing arts integration builds inclusive classrooms<\/li>\n<li>How can teachers make time for arts integration<\/li>\n<li>Discover the tools teachers need in arts-integrated classrooms<\/li>\n<li>Review what instructional techniques should be applied<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/educators\/professional-development\/academic-rigor-through-arts-integration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academic Rigour through Arts Integration<\/a> \u2013 building creative learning spaces without compromising rigor in primary school, including\n<ul>\n<li>Explore how learners synthesise other disciplines within an arts integration approach<\/li>\n<li>Learn how higher order thinking skills and arts integration are connected<\/li>\n<li>Discover how arts integration builds practical skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/education\/resources-for-educators\/classroom-resources\/articles-and-how-tos\/articles\/educators\/professional-development\/how-school-leaders-can-support-arts-integration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How school leaders can support arts integration<\/a> \u2013 foster arts-integrated spaces with purposeful planning, a shared mindset, community resources and celebrating each step, including:\n<ul>\n<li>Discover ways to strategically plan for arts integration<\/li>\n<li>Review strategies for shifting mindset<\/li>\n<li>Maximising limited resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arts Education can inspire, excite and empower learners. 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