LESEGO MOLWELE

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Arts integration in Foundation Phase

2 Oct 2021, 02:15 Publicly Viewable

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 connect  an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both. Arts integration has been proven to contribute towards higher motivation levels among learners and supports academic achievement and socialisation among learners.

 

Ways to integrate art in classroom

  1. Use of visual art in the class 
  2. Encourage speaking, listening, and vocabulary development skills.
  3. Clarify thoughts, ideas, and feelings by drawing and labelling.
  4. DRAMA.
  5. Encourage role playing.
  6. Take turns in the "hot seat" to understand character

Benefits of an integrative approach

  • An integrative approach to teaching, for example, connects visualization with reading comprehension, contextualizes math, or brings an experiential context to the science or social studies classroom.
  • Focus and concentration can be developed through an appreciation and application of different learning styles, such as linguistic, visual or kinesthetic thinking
  • Through the integration of perception into cognition, and expression into reflection, students perform at a significantly higher level.