Summary: Integrating The Arts In Early Childhood

As a child, I would image what my life would be like when I became a teacher. In this paper I will explore different developmentally appropriate approaching philosophies, theories, and concepts when teaching math, reading, science and the fine arts to young children across a developmental curriculum. Having to gain knowledge from the early childhood text helped me to create what I consider to be the perfect classroom plan. Preschool education is very important because this is their first experience towards twelve years of grade school. The knowledge they gather will increase as they grow and development.

In “Top 10 Skills Children Learn from the Arts” Valerie Strauss first discusses why teaching arts promote important life skills in children. Strauss explains why teachers need to be trained in arts, not only the normal science, math, engineering, and technology. She then begins to list skills that children learn from studying the arts. The list Strauss uses is one from the author Lisa Phillips, in her book called “The Artistic Edge: 7 Skills Children Need to Succeed in an Increasingly Right World.” She starts off with creativity and how getting children involved in arts can allow them to “approach tasks from different perspectives and think ‘outside the box.’” This can play a big role on how they handle tasks in their future. Confidence can

As I like to choose an underlining theme to run throughout my activities, this activity also introduces several lessons within one in a fun and creative manner. Initially, the children are introduced to famous painters and their work before being encouraged to either, copy or be inspired to create their own works of art. The use of messy materials is fun and stimulating for the children and classical music should be played in the back ground to encourage creative inspiration. After they have finished, their artwork should be hung around the room at eye level to promote

As a preschool special needs teacher, I am charged with providing specialized and individualized instruction to meet the needs of my students. All of the students on my caseload qualify in all five assessed areas: motor, language, adaptive, cognitive, and social skills. It is also important that my instruction be engaging and developmentally appropriate for my students. My students have shown a great interest in music and artistic activities. I am interested in using their interest in the fine arts as a means of instruction.

I was exposed to a complete range of early childhood studies, all of which solidified my ardent interest in the field. I also had the opportunity to study a handful of art and humanities subjects, which have given me a fresh perspective on the world we reside in. By the same token, I will be able to apply the knowledge gained from my ICT and Multimedia subject in creating a state-of-the-art medium apt for young children in this era of

Between this image and the three reading I found that imagination is a big point and it is a way of play and thinking process that the child goes through. I am surprised that there is more research happening in early childhood and there has been in the past and that is something that I saw in all three readings

“After a certain high level of technical skill achieved, science and arts tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientist are artist as well” (Albert Einstein). In this advanced modern tech-world mostly people are dependent on science and technology, but arts also play an important role in education. Art creates balanced thinking and better imagination which helps humans to be successful in their career. Yo-Yo Ma intensely informs about important role of arts in modern education society throughout his essay Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and education. Ma illustrates that arts should be also part of education, because it improve students to filter their imagination through disciplined knowledge. Liberal arts should be equal to science and technology because it creates new idea, and in this modern world people should think critical than divergent in their lives. Empathy teaches students to understand and simplify the complicated life. Collaboration include discussion amongst people or group to make things effortless. Moreover liberal arts itself is beauty such as performing arts, it values the beauty of imagination in modern society by art and sculpture.

Toddlers and school-age children are both in early childhood, but there are several differences in daycare activities. Toddlers and school-age children are at different levels of physical development. Since toddlers are still improving their fine motor skills, they need teachers’ help for outdoor activities. They cannot zip up their jumpers and put on their shoes by themselves. On the other hand, school-age children have fully developed not only fine motor skills but also gross motor skills, so they can prepare for outdoor activities by themselves. Moreover, teachers’ role in art activities is different. Teachers should introduce and guild art material for toddlers. In addition toddlers need enough time to explore each material because they

contributing to the sociocultural and economic revitalisation of a community (Stanziola, 1999). Therefore, when implemented effectively, arts integration begets various beneficial outcomes for learners, and others within the educational and community environments and such benefits relate particularly well to concepts surrounding diversity and inclusion.

When children’s artwork is displayed in various places throughout the classroom it can also make other students interested in their peer’s artwork. With the world of technology documenting children’s artwork and various activities has never been easier. By being able to document children’s artwork it can give the parents or caregivers a sense of feeling connected to what their child does in the classroom. This can be good for parents who occasionally work out of town or that are in the military. Throughout the article, it listed different studies that have been done that prove the reasoning behind ways that each category is

Douglas Head Start II, Sherry Broadnax, and Gloria Hendley are in charge of eighteen preschooler ages children. The classroom is well organized with colorful pictures, children’s art, and books to enhance their literacy. The enrichment from the environment print, picture books, story tapes, books and children’s experiences, and several children’s art. As a future educator this experience helps me to understand the meaningful of environmental print has in literacy in the children’s life. The teacher involves the parents by requesting and sending materials and works with them to enhance children’s interest and learning. every activity centers are label in English and Spanish, shorten by size and pictures of each area which are an incredible

Art is a crucial factor in the development of children in terms of creativity, independence and ability to express there selves. But is it more than that? Can art potentially have the therapeutic ability to help young children right through to young adults with serious conditions such as depression, autism and even cancer by allowing these individuals to both express themselves and to communicate emotions that are too difficult to say verbally. How ever art is discovered at a very young age for most. Being able to both recognise art and that it can communicate and evoke these different emotions is highly influenced by how it is taught. Are the different teaching styles that dominate New Zealand completely benefiting young minds through programmes such as NCEA . Or can these specific

The location of the observation was at the Community Center (Early Childhood education program) at 11:00am to 12:30pm on April 15, 2014. The meaningful experiences in early childhood education can positively shape children's development. With a teacher is guidance authentic child-art activity can educate enrich young students' learning abilities, encourage positive attitudes toward other children, and more importantly, learn to interact with people around them in the contemporary world. However, art for young students often takes many diversified approaches and emphasizing questionable practices. Observation is a part of meaningful and authentic early childhood art education. Observation enriches children’s experiences in

Young children 's early arts experiences are important in terms of effective early childhood educational practices and learning. This presentation will promote awareness of the various modes that young children (from birth to five years of age) can and should have experiences of art-based activities within educational settings, at home and within their communities. It was previously believed that in the early childhood years, arts education was not essential. The arts education available were only small opportunities, which allowed children to express themselves in a creative manner. This often took place without a great amount of teacher interference and was carried out separately from the "real" subjects found in the curriculum and the classroom (Phillips, Gorton, Pinciotti, & Sachdev, 2010). Children use their innate senses of smell, touch, taste, sound and sight as they make sense of their world around them. In doing so, allows them to enables children to engage in their own expressions, as well as make choices, connections and their thoughts and feelings for communication and to learn (Wright, 2012). The visual and performing arts and well as arts-related activities, within the five arts disciplines of music, movement/dance, drama, visual art and media, foster engagement for representational, communicative, expressive and social capacities in children which can extend their awareness, perception and thinking. Experiences of the arts may give a rich and unique

In the article “Learning Through Play; Portraits, Photoshop and Visual Literacy Practices” written by Michelle A. Honeyford and Karen Boyd the idea of learning literacy techniques through imaginative and visual play is featured. The article gives a detailed look at an afterschool program that lets students learn about literacy while using creativity. Although there is a lot of detail on the program the layout of the article is very scattered and hard to follow. Also the article highlights the success of the program but never once mentions how it is funded, this raises a lot of questions. And the article also does not speak of any formal assessment so one has to wonder how effective it really is.