Education 318: Creating Meaning Through Literature

Reviewing the course Education 318: Creating Meaning Through Literature is an essential course. This course give me some knowledge of things that I should and would be incorporating when I become and Educator. In many schools now children are failing and may seem like school is boring. Plus, they may feel that they don’t understand what is being taught. However, when they enter their specials which can be music, art, etc, they are feeling that they can do anything and they are having fun. Well this course showed me how I and why we can incorporate those Arts into the curriculum so students view about education can change.
Additionally, implementing the Arts into the curriculum give me ways that I grab the attention of my students into learning the lessons. The arts integration believes that students can be creative in anything they do. Also, having a classroom culture can set the stage for learning. Having that spacious and welcome areas in class that students can be stimulated and diverse ideas can be spoken.
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One of the strategies for dance and creative movements dance echo which is having students make up a dance in a four count and other students must echo the dance. This strategy can encourage students to work on their memory (the dance moves) and being able to work with others. Another one is the conflicting messages basically tell a message as the opposite. Students can say the opposite of something and the other students correct them, such as 1+1=0but the class will say 1-1=0.Thirdly, using visual arts and the curriculum a good strategy I learn was, taking five different paints and finding out how many ways they can paint a box, making each side a different color. This will help students in math as well as being creative to paint the box in their idea without using the same