This presentation was created to give pre-service teachers more information about arts integration and why they should use it as a strategy in their classrooms.

1. What kinds of thinking skills do I want my students to develop?

2. What is Arts Integration?

4. The arts encourage a culturally relevant, student-centered curriculum, which allows students to apply content to their own lives.

7. Arts integration can expose students to contemporary artists , who naturally integrate different content areas and use high level thinking skills.

8. Jenny Holzer

9. Theo Jansen

10. Creativity is linked to problem solving and innovation, both 21 st C skills.

11. Ken Robinson “ It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp…nobody has a clue…what the world will look like in 5 years time and yet we’re meant to be educating [our students] for it.” “ You’ve been steered away from things in which you wouldn’t get a job, which is now extremely mistaken.” “ Creativity, the process of having original ideas that have value…comes about from the interdisciplinary way of seeing things.”

13. The arts demonstrate students’ understanding.

14. What is Metaphor? Frida Kahlo, “Little Deer” Mark Ryden, “Saint Barbie”

16. “ The arts are not something to add to the plate. The arts ARE the plate. The key to student engagement. And communicating what students know and can do.” - Dr. Milton Chen, Edutopia