Important aspects to keep in mind when planning foundation phase lessons.

Content

Start by listing the important facts, key concepts, skills or key vocabulary  that i intend to cover.

Goals 

Identify the aims or outcomes that i want my learners to achieve as a result of the lesson plan i will teach.

Objectives 

Identify objectives that i will hope my learners will achieve in the tasks that will engage them in the learning process.

Resources

List the materials and resources that will be needed for the lesson to be successful.

Introduction 

Describe or list a list focusing event or attention  grabber that will motivate learners to pay attention. 

Development - learners activities 

Describe how i plan to model or explain what i want my learners to do - activities that learners are required to do.

Closure

List or describe ways that i can wrap a lesson.

Evaluation 

List or describe ways that you will assess or measure learner success in achieving the outcomes planned to reach.

The value of utilising arts integration in foundation phase learners. 

The standard assist learners with learning facts, it helps learners grow in their potential of understanding these facts. Arts integration also provide authentic and personally meaning learning and reveals learners potential. Arts integration builds cooperation, collaboration and confidence, it provides a sense of ownership - give learners a way to express what they have learned in class through different art forms. Furthermore, art integration build a sense of ownership whereby it give learners a way to express what they have learned in class through different forms. Lastly, arts integration build critical thinking whereby learners engage in critical thinking and construct personal meaning through their learning in arts-integrated lessons, they develop the skills to work through problem-solving and to innovate new solutions, this builds grit and perseverance capacities in all learners.

As a teacher, i am encouraged to include elements of play to encourage creativity, discovery, collaboration and to apply arts integration strategies as often as possible in their teaching.

The inclusion of music and arts throughout the teaching enable teachers to foster not only social and creative thinking skills but increase learners motivation for learning while also learning more about themselves. Music helps to develop the skills, attitudes and attributes that can support learning in other national curriculum subjects, it helps to develop child's spatial temporal reasoning skills, developing the ability to think in patterns and pictures. Lastly, arts improves academic achievement - it inspire kids to excel in and out of the classroom. Therefore music and arts enhance creativity whereby children develop innovation skills when they are encouraged to express themselves and take risks in creating arts and playing music.