Reflective Statement Visual and Performing Arts and Physical Education

In order to teach Visual and Performing Arts, teachers have to know and understand the
four disciplines: dance, music, theatre, and visual arts. In dance, teachers must teach students
ways to move through space and to listen to instruction such as to hop, be still, or turn. When
teaching dance, students must be aware of the role music plays in their daily lives and learn
about music from other cultures by singing and playing instruments. In theater, teachers must
teach students how to differentiate between a real person and an actor playing a role. Finally,
when teaching visual arts, students need to observe repeated patterns, lines, colors, shapes,
forms, and textures in the world around them. Furthermore, when teaching Physical Education,
teachers must understand the emphasize on fundamental locomotor, non-locomotor, and
manipulative skills.
I have taken many classes that have prepared me to teach Visual and Performing Arts
and Physical Education. ART 301: Arts and Crafts, taught me how to identify shapes, patterns,
and textures in my surroundings. THE 100: TV, Film, and Theatre, taught me the history of
theatre and how to behave as part of an audience. KIN 425: Physical Education in Elementary
School, taught me how to create a lesson for physical education. Moreover, the class that has
prepared me to teach Visual and Performing Arts the most is KIN 447: Dance in Elementary
School. In this class I learned how to prepare a dance lesson.
My artifact is a lesson I created in my KIN 447: Dance in Elementary School class. In my
lesson, I teach students how to do various activities in rhythm to the music. Students had to
listen to my instruction of when to start dancing, when to pause, and when to move to the next
group. This lesson compliments the Visual and Performing Arts framework perfectly because
when teaching dance, teachers must teach students to listen to instruction and how to move
through space, which is what my lesson teaches students.