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Assessment and the Arts

Arts Standards of Learning

Arts Integration in Action

Do Other Countries Use Art Integration?

Art Education in China has the tradition of valuing art education in educational institutions. The website AsianInfo.org, indicated that in China's system, "children between the ages of three to six go to kindergarten. There they study language, math, singing, and painting and participate in sports. While in primary school, the students are exposed to math, Chinese and one foreign language, English or Japanese. These are the main subjects, however they also cover Biology, music, art, politics, history, physics, chemistry and geography."

Lessons and Ideas for Arts Integration

The Importance of Arts in the Curriculum

In 1995, The United States Department of Education reported in Schools, Communities, and the Arts: A Research Compendium, that "using arts processes to teach academic subjects results not only in improved understanding of content but it greatly improved self-regulatory behavior." Barry Oreck of ArtsConnection and Susan Baum from the College of New Rochelle observed integrated arts lessons in all major subject areas in fourteen New York City elementary and secondary public school classrooms. They found that "student behavior improved strikingly in such areas as taking risks, cooperating, solving problems, taking initiative for learning, and being prepared. Content-related achievement also rose."
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/arts/dickinson_lrnarts.htm

Arts Integration Defined

Northern Illinois University indicates that Art Integration is a methodology and a philosophical approach to education that creates a level of personal connection and added depth in the classroom through a creative inquiry-based process of teaching and learning.
http://www.neiu.edu/~middle/Modules/science%20mods/amazon%20components/AmazonComponents3.html#arts