How Does an Arts Integrated Curriculum Benifit Learners with and without Disabilities:A look at curriculum from Pre-K to 3rd grade.

This paper researches How an Arts Integrated Curriculum Benefits Learners With and Without Disabilities: A look at Curriculum from Pre-K to Third grade. The purpose of this study is to find out how Arts Integration can help students learn more successfully. It is assumed that going back-to-the-basics of teaching as a preschool instructor, benefits learners and would even do so into grades beyond preschool. Pre-school teachers often use an integrated curriculum and the arts to teach all subjects across the curriculum. By looking at programs that follow an arts integrated curriculum this paper will explore the specific areas in which learners benefit.The literature reviewed for this study and answers provided by educators in interviews conducted for this study suggests that Arts Integration helps students become more involved with the content being taught, therefore helping them be academically successful. It also suggests that emphasizing the Arts and utilizing them to teach core subjects such as reading, writing, and math, is a solution to meeting the academic goals put into place by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This study concludes that Arts Integration across the curriculum positively engages students, causing them to be more involved with the learning process, creating a desire for knowledge. Through Arts Integration students are able to "shine" and bring out the best in themselves socially, emotionally, and academically; it allows for more student choice and leads to more student independence and a behavior modification system seems to be less necessary when arts integration is put into place. This study also concludes that instructors see a positive difference in academic achievement with each student when the arts are being utilized in the classroom.

Author

• Shumway, Jasmine D.

Language

• en

Keyword

• benefits
• education
• learning disabilities
• art integration

Date created

• 2012

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Art Education

Degree

• M.A.T.

Advisor

• Dunn, Amy Aden

Committee Member(s)

• Honig, Selila
• Storr, Annie
• Lawton, Pam

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/xw42n809t