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How integrating arts int other subjects make learning come alive.

This piece of literature talks about how art had been recognized as an important part of a well-rounded education, but when it comes down to setting budgets priorities, arts rarely rise to the top.

Some schools cut dance and arts out but some are weaving arts into everything they do.

This article talk a lot about the "Integrated Arts Academy (IAA)" which is a school and association purely concentrating on arts not being a second thought "Instead, artistic learning goals are held up as equals to academic standards and teachers work hard to design lessons that highlight content through art." 

 Here is a link to a blog of IAA with a video posted on September 9th 2015 showing thier students talking about learning through arts.
Blog link: https://integratedartsacademy.wordpress.com/
Elizabeth Paterson a fourth-grade teacher at Cashman Elementary School in Amesbury, Massachusetts said “Arts integration seems to be the best form of differentiation out there because it taps into so many different interests and abilities and forms of learning”

AN EXTRACT FROM THE ARTICLE....

ISN'T ARTS INTEGRATION MORE POPULAR?
As with most deviations from what has been done in schools for hundreds of years, many teachers see art as secondary to the academic standards they must get through. Even Peterson said she feels that pressure, but she knows she can teach the standards through art in a way that also gives students some independence to stretch their creativity. 

Arts integration can also be a hard model for teachers to buy into if they don’t feel like they themselves are competent artists. “Art scares people who are not in the arts,” said Michelle Baldwin, a lead teacher at the private Anastasis Academy, where art is central to everything done in the classroom. “If they don’t have a lot of experience or don’t feel like they are good at anything in the arts, it becomes a personal insecurity issue.”

THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING SECTION TO THE ARTICLE AS I NEVER OF THOUGHT ABOUT HOW IT WOULD MAKE THE TEACHER FEEL IF THEY ARE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THE ARTS AS THEY THINK THEY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE ON THE SUBJECT.

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