Shall we Dance!!

Or Should I said: "Shall we Move"!!!

This week it been the most roller coaster many classes are overlapping like never before, but its all good. Every time a professor mention how close it’s our student teaching assignment my heart starts pounding like crazy of excitement and frightens feelings at the same time.

Teaching is an amazing Profession!!!

In Creative arts I have learned about....Well I would said I learned How to integrate Dance and/or creative movements in my classroom!!!!!! And the benefits of it too.

Beside that I learned how important of movements in communication can not be separated. when a child is born,

they don't know how to speak to communicate their feelings or needs and through movements children are able to communicate.

We all love to move, even when we are old. Dance or creative movements makes us happy. And when we are happy, our brain are ready learn better (in a higher level). That is one of the main reason why we need to more in a classroom.

Integrating dance or creative movements with core curriculum subjects such as: social studies, science, and even language arts; students will have th

e opportunity to experience, create, and live each personage of a story or history play and/or a performance of their skeleton. Since they will be creating ways to express what their parts are, they will have to memorize and review over and over again the subject material in order to do their best. That process is what we call CPS. Creative Problem Solution, a tool that they can use with all of their classes and also in

real life.

I also learned that dance offered social benefits for underprivileged students by providing an emotional

safe haven; giving the feeling they were special; acting as assimilation tools for recent immigrants and other new kids; and bolstering friendships as they enter new situation. That a biggy for me because when I dance, I do it for me because it makes me feel happy. But now it brings memories from back home. I didn't notice that until now.

Lately, all the classes are beginning to overlap. For example, Creative Arts, Psychology, Social Studies, and Classroom Management are also intertwine with each other. They are also talking how students learn, schema, CPS (Creative Problem Solution), Piaget's, Multiple Intelligence and dance, which makes us happy, and we are happy we can learn much more or better. I love to dance and learn that I can teach my future students core curriculum with dance or creative movements, I am thrill.

I think later or at the end of the semester it will make sense why they all want us to learn some of the same concepts with all the teachers. But for

now I think that between Instructional Media, Social Studies, and Creative Arts I am set for life. Meaning I think I will be able to survive my first 3 years of my courier. That reason why, it is because children love to have fun, I do like to have fun...children will learn more an environment where they feel love, accepted, and cared, and where discovery is the Theme of the year!!!

I feel lucky to be in this program and in this class because it really makes me realize how important it is to make everyone in my future classroom love and important, and safe.

Drama in the Classroom!!!!!

Drama is one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of having the opportunity to integrate drama as a learning tool in my classroom. The most I read about art integration, I get more and more excited of I can do with my students to make their journey of learning an experience that they will never forget.

Since the beginning of the program,

 I felt very overwhelm with all the details and class material, regulations, and information that we have to know in order to be a good teacher. I also knew that I have great responsibility to be prepared as much as I can.  I thought that it was too much material and subjects to cover and not time to have fun with my students besides recess.

Now I can see that it is hope we have so many ways that we can integrate Creative Arts with the core curriculum and they are so…so fun to do!!

This past week, I have the opportunity to work with an excellent, hard working team to put together a lesson about Solar system from the core curriculum integrated with Arts. Oh my gosh.. It was awesome! We sat down, check the core curriculum, we chec

k and read about the drama core curriculum, and we brainstorm about which possible fun activity we could use to dramatize or present the lesson. I was amazing to see all elements come together for our lesson. Music, movements, core curriculum requirements, and of course the FUN-damental

 aspect of drama  (orle play with a group of students and being a planet of the solar system).

It was amazing to me how many other groups used great ideas to

 teach a lesson about history, and how the language arts and how history come alive. From improvisation, Narrative pantomime, tableaus, collective role-play, the characters story-telling and dramatization of different explorers (even though some students were making fun of my English accent when I give them a positive feedback), and

 the all students participation in panel in the role-play with the judge.    

I am excited to use all this tools as much as I can in my future classrooms. I love all of them.  I thing the pantomime tableau and the Newsbreak will be so much fun to use in Social Studies, science and even math…Maybe all the subjects!

Drama is an excellent tool to help our students to increase their comprehension, reading and writing skills because, students, in order to perform must know the content of their personage that they are representing (facts, description, personality, maybe understand their point of view or thinking, looks and likes). Students are expose to critical thinking and CPS 

throughout the whole process of preparation for the performing.

 What a way to teach so many important concepts and curriculum material all at once.   

With, About, In and Through the Arts

Being a teacher is no only a important carrier but a privilege. A privilege because children by nature are excited to discover new things and are willing to do whatever you ask them to do (in most cases) and we, teachers are the one who bring the world into their lives.

Children are like a sponge ready to absorb as much knowledge as we can give them.  But that knowledge of the world (numbers, letters, history, ad science) its been taught, through the years and around the world,  in a straight, direct instruction... That is they way I was taught in my earlier years. I knew that something was missing in my learning process. 

 

From  the beginning, a child starts to express (communicate) t

hemselves through movements, sounds, and color. Their cognitive development needs the support of "Magic" element of Arts.

Creative Arts is the missing link between lecture and understanding. I have learned that "Arts-based learning is built on values for diversity, creative inquiry, active learning and students independence and their ethos." Children need freedom to move and themselves.

I never thought that I could have the opportunity to learn so many and incredible ideas to integrate and enrich my futures students education. To make their learning journey meaningful. It is a must because visual arts promotes reflection; dance uses the body to communicate feelings and ideas; drama conveys decision making and critical thinking "what if"; and most of all their are a fun way to learn and to assess what is the world about. 

I did not know that creative arts integration teach CPS (creative problem solving).  Actively construct new meanings, new ways, many solutions  to solve a problem. It really train our brains to process information, concentration, visualize, empathize, SCAMPER, transform, proceed and evaluate. CPS is like a scientific method or writing process, or even reading process. This is an incredible tool, a must to know knowledge that we, as teacher must teach o

ur students and why not....through Creative arts.

I am so excited about this class!!!! Every class period is new fun experience. It really brights up my day. Energizers and/or warm-ups activity are so fun to do. Not to mention the activities that follows lesson. They really relax and boost my concentration. This is just a scoop of what is in store for us to learn and put in practice in our classrooms. 

We will spend about 7 hours with our students, we need all the tools possible to make our classrooms a place of discovery, of love, of learning, and a excited place where they want to be and learn. Creative Arts integration will make all those goals possible.

  

 I know that it will be somehow difficult to do because I am not gifted or talented, but I am willing to learn how to implement all the techniques that I am learning in this class. Because of the joy that I feel when I dance, or listen to music, or see beautiful painting; I will work harder everyday to learn how integrat

e drama, dance, visual arts to the core curriculum lesson plans so that my students will be happy to discover the world in our classroom.