Creative Expression and Play Assignment 4

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Creative Expression and Play Assignment 4 Jasmine Richey AC1905510 E06V Creative Expression and Play Assignment 4 1/22/2024 Part 1 Art is one of the subjects where students can freely express themselves and students can show their individuality. Students who are in a classroom that accommodates diverse learners encourage students to show their uniqueness. Students who enjoy and show promise in one area can be encouraged to partake in that activity while others who show interest in another will be encouraged in that area. All students will have their interest nurtured and will most likely be successful in that class. A curriculum in art that accommodates diverse learners allows children to learn at their own pace. Though there are yardsticks that parents and society use to measure children by when they reach certain ages, all children develop and mature at different times. What one child may be able to do independently at age five years, another will not master until age six or seven. A curriculum in art needs to cater for both students. Teachers cannot allow the more advanced ones to become bored because they did not provide challenging opportunities for them, nor can they allow those who develop more slowly to be left behind because the work is too difficult. Teachers need to allow both children to shine and produce their best possible work in their classrooms. Art can allow a teacher to do just that. A more advanced child who already knows

Creative Expression and Play Assignment 4 their colors may be curious to know what new colors can be created by mixing colors or whether they can use different materials to paint with if they want a particular shape or line size. A teacher can nurture this curiosity by allowing the child to explore and find out on their own. A child who is not so advanced may be encouraged to learn his or her colors through fun activities in art such as drawing and painting favorite animals or vehicles after a field trip. Both children are learning at different paces and because the teacher has a curriculum in art that caters to their differences, they will both flourish in her class. Art also caters to the various intelligences. Art can be used to teach or can be incorporated in all subject areas. It is important to have a curriculum in art that caters to diverse learners because not every child learns the same way. Some children are into music and movement, some are into numbers and order, and some are into their environment along with others. Teachers need to ensure that their curriculum in art supports diverse learners thereby ensuring that all children will be able to perform at their best in the classroom. For example, a teacher may want to teach a concept on leaves. She can cater to all the nine multiple intelligences. For example, the children of environmental intelligence can gather leaves for the class to compare; she can have the mathematical intelligence place them in order from biggest to smallest or light to dark; the verbal intelligence can listen or read books on leaves and share it with the class and other activities for the various other intelligences. That way every child is learning about leaves and the art lesson is successful but in the most effective way for them. Part 2 Isenberg and Jalongo (2014), agree that art can be made accessible to all children if teachers make appropriate adaptations for students with special needs. Students with Emotional and

Creative Expression and Play Assignment 4 Intellectual challenges students will be given a task to complete a picture book about a week in their life. Students who are unable to write will be asked to use as many pictures as they want. They will be asked to either paint or draw to illustrate their book. The child can work on their own and at their own pace. The child will determine when their book is done and ready to be published and shared with others. The child will also be given the option to work on their own. Children with visual impairments are not able to see the world as clearly as other children. They would most likely rely on their sense of touch to learn a concept. An example of an activity for a child with visual impairment is having concrete materials when teaching shapes. Simply holding up a shape or a picture of a shape to the front of the class, no matter how big or colorful it may be and explaining that this is a square because it has four equal sides will not be of any help to a visually impaired child. What would help that child is for the teacher to get concrete materials of the shapes and allow the child to feel the shape for him or herself. This child will be given the shapes and as the lesson goes on about the shape, the child will be able to take part in the class and feel the number of sides that shape has. This way the child will not feel left out because he or she cannot make out a shape drawn on the blackboard or shown to the class. Children with hearing impairments prefer environments with low background noise and ample lighting. An activity for a hearing-impaired child would be to allow them to match pictures to words. Students can have a field trip to a nearby farm as an introductory activity to a lesson about animals. Students can then match names of animals to their pictures. Teachers can further expand this activity by allowing students to paint their favorite animals or allowing them to build pens for their favorite animals in the block areas. Students should be encouraged to show their creativity. They will feel proud of their creations.

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