Reflection 1

Okay so I had a little difficulty when I did my first blog and I wrote about the reflection 2 first. From the moment I step foot in this class I instantly knew that I was going to love it. Art has always been a passion in my life and the thought of getting to teach through the arts makes my future career as a teacher seem so much more fun. The reading just helped me further my knowledge of the impact on arts. I really enjoyed the carousal activity that we did in class as well. It really helped me remember all my reading and getting everyone's views helped me realize what I missed in my reading. Art is underused in the classroom and it is not fair to the students. Teachers are starting to realize what a key role art can play in their students learning. There have been so many studies that have proven how students who are educated with art are better in literacy, and cooperation in the classroom. Just because I love singing and dancing and acting doesn't mean that I know how to teach with them. I am looking forward to learning fun and new ways to integrate my passion for these skills to empower my teaching. I want to know how do you engage students who don't like art? Because we all know that there are so many different types of learners how do you make the arts work for everyone? There are so many ways to use art in teaching, it increases variety and breaks up the direct teaching, and gives the teacher new and fun ways to assess their students learning instead of standard tests. Through art children can learn to express themselves and for those students like me who love to be in the limelight and don't do so well on normal testing this will give them an outlet to shine. Children need to challenged and be exposed to all forms of art, this helps them being well rounded learners. For many students this will be their first time to do art projects, and sing and dance and just let loose. Especially for your ELL learners. A lot of them would have come from countries that they might not have even been allowed to go to school and now they are dropped into a classroom where they are expected to sing silly songs to help them learn. You as the teacher have to be sensitive and help each and every child in your classroom. I am very excited to see where we go in this class and I can't wait for my art journal to grow!