Arts Integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both.

the arts become the approach to teaching and the vehicle for learning. Students are engaged in dual learning objectives as they engage in the creative process to explore connections between art forms and other subject areas to gain greater cross-cutting understandings. The experience is mutually reinforcing and results in deeper meaning-making in both the arts and other curricular areas. Arts-Integration requires that educators engage in professional learning about arts standards and how to authentically connect the arts to the curriculum they teach.

 •Working in the arts helps learners to develop creative problem-solving skills.

1. Teaching through the arts can present difficult concepts visually, making them more easy to understand.
2. Art instruction helps children with the development of motor skills, language skills, social skills, decision-making, risk-taking, and inventiveness.
3. Visual arts teach learners about color, layout, perspective, and balance: all techniques that are necessary in presentations (visual, digital) of academic work.
4. Integrating art with other disciplines reaches students who might not otherwise be engaged in classwork.
5. Arts experiences boost critical thinking, teaching students to take the time to be more careful and thorough in how they observe the world.
6. The arts provide challenges for learners at all levels.
7. Art education connects students with their own culture as well as with the wider world.