Benefits of teaching art in the school.

1. THE IMPORTANCE OF ART EDUCATION

2. THINKING SKILLS USED IN ART :
INVENTION
EXPLORATION
EXPERIMENTATION
IMAGINATION

3. THINKING SKILLS IN ART BECOME THE FOUNDATION FOR :
THINKING PATTERNS AND ABILITIES THAT
TRANSFER TO OTHER AREAS OF LIFE.

4. BENEFITS OF ART :
Motor skills
Cognitive skills
Visual learning
Inventiveness
People skills

5. Motor skills
Motions involved in making
art, are essential for fine
Motor skills.
Pencil
Paint brush
Clay sculptures
Finger painting
Paper and scissors
…

6. Cognitive skills
Creative thinking
Problem solving
Making decisions
Risk-taking
Fine arts provide benefits wich
Influence into other parts of life : Promoting
Self-steem
Motivation
Focus

7. Visual learning
DRAWING
PAINTING
ESCULPTING
develope
VISUAL-SPATIAL skills
ART EDUCATION teaches students to : interpret
criticize VISUAL INFORMATION
use
help kids become SMART CONSUMERSGRAPHIC SYMBOLISM

8. Inventiveness
Practise
THINKING
CREATIVELY
for their future careers
Art allows kids to express themselves,
Take risks and develope a sense of :
INNOVATION
and
CREATIVITY

9. People skills
Students learn that their contribution
to the group is integral to its success
COLLABORATION
WORK AS A MEMBER OF A TEAM
Sense of wonder
Flexibility
Fairness
Contribution
…
Age,sex or origin does not matter,
only the qualityof the work does.

10. Howard Gadner suggests
there are more than two intelligences
(logical-mathematical and linguistic.) :
BODILY-KINESTHETIC
MUSICAL
SPATIAL
INTERPERSONAL
INTRAPERSONAL
ARTS in the school offers to students :
•Opportunities of develope diferent “intelligences”
•Different ways of expressing thoughts,experiences and feelings.
Attitudes they will need to contribute to modern world.

11. “SCIENCE GIVES US ORDER IN THOUGHTS,
MORALITY GIVES US ORDER IN ACTIONS,
ART GIVES US ORDER IN APPREHENSION
OF VISIBLE,TANGIBLE AND AUDIBLE APPEARIANCES.”
ERNST CASSIRER