The Arts, 21st Century Learning, Early Childhood, Gifted & Talented, Lesson & Curriculum Planning, Teaching Strategies
Course Description:
(1 Hour) This Quick Course will make a case for the integration of the visual arts into your classroom. You will learn about why the visual arts are important for memory, reasoning, and creativity, and will explore other benefits of art integration in the classroom. Through descriptive examples and a CREATE lesson plan blueprint you can follow, you will leave the course with ideas for immediately implementing more visual art into your future lesson activities.
What You’ll Gain From The Course:
A knowledge of art’s link to memory, reasoning, and creativity, with an understanding of specific theories impacted by the visual arts like dual coding and visual thinking
Some ready-to-use classroom ideas for using either art appreciation and evaluation or art creating your classroom
A downloadable “CREATE planning blueprint” that supports you in designing art-integrated lessons that are relevant and supportive of student learning
Why Visual Arts in Every Classroom?
Visual elements have long been known to enhance student learning in a variety of ways. This course will explore exactly why art integration can benefit your students for learning in the classroom. Moreover, you’ll also explore other benefits of the visual arts, like how it aids in the exploration of different cultures or diverse perspectives. When incorporating the visual arts in a structured and strategic manner in your classroom, you can aid in strengthening memory and recall in your lesson. And, art can also allow you to extend student thinking beyond lower cognitive tasks. It can help develop a student’s reasoning and improve their creativity, which are all important components of a student’s academic life. By embedding more arts into the classroom, your lessons become richer and the content becomes more relevant to your students as they learn to apply new concepts and ideas to the world around them. This course will help you in evaluating the importance of the visual arts in your specific content area and provide you with the motivation you need to plan for specific art activities to enhance your future lessons.
In This Course You Will Learn:
About the benefits of the visual arts
Specific examples of arts integration into the classroom
How to use a lesson planning blueprint to incorporate the visual arts into your lessons
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$15
Includes One year of Course Access, Fully Self-Paced & Online.
About Model Teaching Quick Courses:
Model Teaching Quick Courses are cost-effective, quick PD for teachers with action items, ready-to-go resources, and specific content that gets straight to the point. Our concise, in-depth lessons focus on a narrow topic that provides a holistic presentation of key concepts you can learn and be ready to implement in one hour or less. You can choose to watch the video lesson, read the downloadable article lesson, or both, giving you the flexibility to continue your professional learning in the format of your choice. While perfect for individual learning, these courses are also great for PLCs and other school-related staff development, training, and self-paced online instruction.
Quick Courses: Online, Self-Paced Content Delivered in Two Formats
All Model Teaching Quick Courses provide content via both video and text formats for your convenience. Teachers may watch a self-paced video presentation or download and print a self-contained article of the content. Our multi-format delivery allows for personalized individual learning or group learning for on-campus PLCs or other on-campus staff development.
Professional Development Credits
At the conclusion of the course, you will receive a certificate for 1 Professional Development Hours (Clock Hours, CPEs).
Model Teaching Professional Development Courses are pre-approved in many states.
If you are a teacher seeking license renewal and wish to verify acceptance of our Professional Development Courses, please view our PD STATE REQUIREMENTS PAGE to learn more about your state’s requirements.
Also, consider taking our UNIVERSITY-PARTNERED, ACADEMIC CREDIT COURSES to earn regionally accredited units or credits, accepted by most states for teacher re-licensing and salary advancement.
Approval Information About This Course for Teaching License Renewal & Continuing Education
Model Teaching has helped thousands of teachers across the country meet their relicensing requirements.
This course is Pre-Approved in the following states for License Renewal and Continuing education:
Texas – CPE’s, TEA-Approved
New York CTLE’s – NYSED-Approved
Pennsylvania DOE – ACT 48-Approved
Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) – Approved
Nevada DOE
Tennessee
Other States As Well
If you do not see your state listed here, this course may be pre-approved in your state as well. Chat with us or leave a ticket for our recommendations.
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