ARTS CORE
Arts Core programming incorporates the visual and performing arts into everyday learning. Students explore their creativity and self-expression through art, music, dance and drama.
Goals:
- Enable all students to explore and communicate their understandings, feelings, and ideas in a variety of forms
- Develop higher level thinking skills (evaluating, expressing, problem solving, creating) through the use of integrated arts processes
- Develop artistic and academic skills
Benefits:
- Engages the senses, stimulates imagination and creativity and broadens student’s understanding of themselves, others, and the world that they live in
- Contributes significantly to the development of multiple intelligence
- Fosters cross-curricular understanding
- Encourages risk taking and provides opportunities to explore personal challenges in a safe environment
- Promotes thinking critically, creatively, and divergently
- Provides increased exposure to a wide range of artistic tools and processes
- Develops respect for individual, cultural and artistic diversity
- Builds awareness and appreciation of the arts
Program Delivery:
- Instruction that incorporates the arts into language arts, math, science and social studies
- Enriched study of art, music, drama and dance provided in individual classes
- Use of the arts to articulate understanding of learning outcomes
- Inclusion of guest speakers, artist-in-residences and arts-related field trips, and involvement of the local arts community