The document discusses the importance of creativity and the arts in education. It argues that the arts provide students with opportunities to develop their academic, personal and social skills through multiple pathways of learning. The arts engage students in higher-order thinking by encouraging skills like creating, evaluating, and analyzing. Studies have shown that the arts can enhance literacy by 24% and mathematical skills by 6%. The document advocates for arts integration across all subjects and classrooms to tap into students' creativity and help them learn in different styles.

1. Creativity and The Arts in Education

2. Children are full of… COURAGE JOY POTENTIAL! Curiosity Life Awe Creativity Emotion Photos courtesy of; Nicole Goggins, Anthony Asael, Romeo Koitmae, Annie Curry and Flickr.

3. The best teachers are those who equip students to THINK for themselves.

4. The Arts provides students with opportunities to identify, value and extend their academic, personal and social capabilities by offering multiple pathways to learning. (QSA, K-10 Arts Syllabus, 2002, p1)

5. Universal Language Mind,Body&Spirit Opportunities Connections Academic Achievement Independence and Collaboration Providefeedback and encourage reflection Experience Higher Order Thinking Inclusion

7. Different Learning Styles Aural (Auditory-musical) Learns best with sounds and music. Visual (Spatial) Learns best using pictures and images. Physical (Kinaesthetic) Learns through using the sense of touch.

8. Different Learning Styles Verbal (Linguistic) Learns most efficiently using words in both speech and writing. Logical (Mathematical) Learns using logic, reasoning and systems. Social (Interpersonal) Learns best in groups or with other people.

9. Visual Arts Visual expression Develops dexterity Develops spatial awareness perspective and confidence in personal skill. Develops knowledge of line, colour, texture, shape, depth, light/dark, order, chromatic harmony-dissonance, perspective distance and symmetry

10. Ask children to draw their family or sketch idea about a new unit of work…

11. Music Rhythm, beat, sound, melody, harmony, rhyme, repetition, tune etc Increases spatial reasoning performances Improves numeracy skills Powerful memory tool Boosts confidence

12. Greet children with songs, play clapping games, start a drumming circle…

15. Dance Kinesthetic movement Spatial awareness Learn about individuality and group Appreciate movement; ability and disability

16. Create dance activities for students – dancing to music, in pairs…

17. Multimedia 21st century literacy Critical thinking, observing and listening Multimedia is dispersed throughout society - adverts, music film clips, films, A collection of art modes Endless possibilities!

18. Immerse the kids in multimedia… Select an advertisement a week to study.

19. What are the academic benefits of having an arts-rich curricula? Can enhance literacy by as much as 24% while enhancing mathematical capability by approximately 6%! The Arts, as a combination of play and creativity, engages students in Higher Order Thinking!

20. Higher Order Thinking Creating Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing. Generating new ideas, ways of viewing things or even new products

21. Higher Order Thinking Evaluating Hypothesizing, checking, critiquing, experimenting, judging Justifying a decision or course of action

22. Higher Order Thinking Analysing Comparing, organizing, deconstructing, interrogating Sorting information into parts or sections to explore understandings and relationships

23. The arts are essential parts of the human experience, they are not a frill. We recommend that all students study the arts to discover how human beings communicate not only with words, but through music, dance, and the visual arts. - Dr. Ernest Boyer, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

24. Creativity? Any Subject Any Classroom Any Time Anyone!

25. I believe that The Arts and Creativity are not just an important part of successful education. They are the FOUNDATION. Thank You for watching!

26. Music: The Album Leaf – Shine The Album Leaf – The Light The Album Leaf – San Simeon Sources: Education in the Arts Teaching and learning in the contemporary curriculum Google Images Flickr Images