For Presentation for class

1. Presented By Ashli Becker

2. Some students find school frustrating, and the
one thing keeping them in school is a
classroom they enjoy. Often you find this with
the arts, giving students a boost of confidence.
“On average, one-fourth of the students who
are currently in our high schools will not
graduate”(Davis, 3).

4. Classrooms of the arts create a safe zone for
students to explore themselves, new materials
and create mutual respect for each others
work.

6. Without classrooms that offer the arts,
students will lose a place that they can belong
in. Arts classrooms offer areas to create new
friends and new groups to belong in.
Examples of classes that foster creating friends
out of similar interests: band, chorus and
drama.

7. The arts create
problem solving
skills. The arts
don’t just have
one right
answer they
have multiple
options for
students to
explore.

8. In early elementary levels, even in preschool
we are introduced materials and tools,
commonly using the safety scissors. This
cutting motion provides growth in fine motor
skills. Simple things like using crayons,
paintbrushes, and cutting with scissors will
assist in the dexterity for students that is
essential for writing.

13. Development in language by just making art
and talking about it gives students the change
to learn words for basic shapes, colors and
actions. The arts provide decision making skills
that will strengthen critical thinking, and
problem solving skills. Involving students in an
early age to arts encourages them take risks,
experiment and express themselves as
individuals.

15. When we look at history what are we looking
at, we are looking at art. Everything from
paintings, sculptures, and the large structures
left behind. The art left behind by past
cultures, culture is not only found in what was
left behind but what is going on today.

18. “There is no art form flourishing today, or that
has flourished in the past, that has not done so
on the wings of diversity-American musicians
borrowing from African rhythms, South
American architects employing Scandinavian
ideas, German painters finding inspiration in
Egyptian art, French filmmakers influenced by
Japanese techniques. “ (Post, 79)

19. When you provide the arts for students you are
giving them a new way to use their hands,
their voices, and their bodies. Suddenly they
are their own tools; they have the means to
pull out all of the emotions. Giving students
the confidence they may need.

22. Art is not solely reflecting culture and media
but it is also looking into ourselves. Giving
students art, music, theater, and dance you
are exposing them to a way to have an outlet,
speak out, and find themselves.

24. Dropout rates would sky rocket students would
find no outlets in school and would have to
seek out things like physical education and
have limited ways to express themselves.
There would be an overall lack of attendance
in school because without any forms of art
there is not much to speak to the students on a
person level and retain interest.

26.  Provide an expressive outlet for students
 A sense of freedom to express
 Help build self-esteem
 Can foster collaboration
 Empowers the students
 Introduce other cultures and history
 Create classrooms build out of respect and
being part of something larger than yourself

28.  Cantz, H. (2012). What is Art? Riehen/Basel:
Beyeler Museum AG.
 Davis, J. H. (2012). Why Our High Schools
Need the Arts. New York: Teachers College
Press.