EFFECTIVE LEARNING THROUGH THE INTEGRATION OF ARTS

 Integrating arts into studies is an innovative method or not just improving the child’s art skills but also his grades in academics.

How would you react when your second-grade student says to you, “I don’t understand how planes fly and stay in the air, even when they are not like flies with the supernatural powers.” The problem of this grades students is, they do not understand the physics behind flights even though they have taken off in the plane. So here, the arts can play a major role.

It’s time to turn your Science class into art and craft class. To explain the flying planes you need to explain the various forces of flight like thrust, drag, gravity and lift and not to forget a pack of acrylic colors. It is quite big to experience the colors making their way on the paper and explaining the work of gravity than to simply be in the classroom and read all this happening in the books of Science.

Let’s start working

Research is important
You must know what and how are you going to do it. If you are working on the flight physics, start thinking and find out various ways that can be integrated into your class to make your students understand the concepts. Ask yourself a few questions:

•    Can art really describe your topic? If yes, find out how?
•    Would arts be able to cover up the content areas as per the subject requirement?
•    Would you be able to meet your students’ goals with this project?

Plan how would you conduct the art based learning
Work on the standards, learning targets, common goals, the guiding questions, and the final art product that would deepen the concepts and also explain the art content.

Testing is necessary for success
Once you have worked on papers for the model, bring it in action. If you are having fun while preparing the project and learning with it, then your students would also love to work on it. Working on a model gives you experience and also gives your student a great example for what they have been striving for.

Learn from your strengths and weaknesses
If you are working out on such projects for the first time, it would be a great experience for you. You might come up with problems; deal with them and come up with questions so that when you prepare it with your students and they have questions, you are ready with answers.

Teachers at Presidium do the same. They make sure that they know the concepts before they teach the same to their students. This is one of the reasons that Presidium is one of best nursery schools in Faridabad.