Using art and illustrations can help teach common core concepts to students with learning disabilities in several ways:
1) It provides students time to process information through comparing sources and focusing on the creative process rather than just final results.
2) Visual stimuli can make lessons more engaging and help students who have trouble concentrating.
3) Illustrations provide multiple access points for students to connect with lessons in ways that are personally relevant.
4) Integrating art ensures learning is equitable and meets each student's unique needs and abilities.
Using art and illustrations can help teach common core concepts to students with learning disabilities in several ways:
1) It provides students time to process information through comparing sources and focusing on the creative process rather than just final results.
2) Visual stimuli can make lessons more engaging and help students who have trouble concentrating.
3) Illustrations provide multiple access points for students to connect with lessons in ways that are personally relevant.
4) Integrating art ensures learning is equitable and meets each student's unique needs and abilities.
Using art and illustrations can help teach common core concepts to students with learning disabilities in several ways:
1) It provides students time to process information through comparing sources and focusing on the creative process rather than just final results.
2) Visual stimuli can make lessons more engaging and help students who have trouble concentrating.
3) Illustrations provide multiple access points for students to connect with lessons in ways that are personally relevant.
4) Integrating art ensures learning is equitable and meets each student's unique needs and abilities.
Using art and illustrations can help teach common core concepts to students with learning disabilities in several ways:
1) It provides students time to process information through comparing sources and focusing on the creative process rather than just final results.
2) Visual stimuli can make lessons more engaging and help students who have trouble concentrating.
3) Illustrations provide multiple access points for students to connect with lessons in ways that are personally relevant.
4) Integrating art ensures learning is equitable and meets each student's unique needs and abilities.
Using Art to Teach Common Core Cartoons Using humor through cartoons is a valuable Process Produces Product: Art integrated teaching tool because they motivate students to lessons provide students with time to compare engage with the lesson by: sources, conduct research and focus on the process of their work. This process produces grabbing attention richer and more extensive results than a promoting critical thinking "traditional" approach. For LD students, an Art helping students think outside the box integrated lesson could lead to better encouraging imagination understanding! giving meaning to difficult ideas making students laugh (relieving stress Visually stimulating: Art and Illustration can make and anxiety too!) a lesson come alive! For students who have helping students remember key difficulty concentrating or following along, using concepts visual stimulus can be very helpful!
Access Points: Illustrations and Art are naturally
engaging to both teachers and students! For LD students who may find it difficult to engage with certain subject areas, this could be especially helpful! By using art and illustration to teach common core, student learning gains relevance. Students can also connect the world to their learning and classroom! Art and Learning Disabilities Teachers across the country agree: Art and Illustration have great value for students with disabilities. When art is infused True Equity: By using Art and Illustration, with teaching, the impact on student attitudes, motivation, teachers can ensure that their students are social skills, and ability to communicate is significantly learning in a way that meets their own unique greater. Writing is richer and includes more details. Students with certain needs or characteristics, and students cultural, social, emotional and intellectual needs. experiencing learning, behavioral, sensory, physical, or For LD students, this sense of equality is developmental problems, can all gain greater understanding particularly important. when art is used as a teaching tool for common core.
Drawings and Diagrams
Arousing student interest and promoting lateral thinking can be a challenge.
When topics are not easy to understand,
how can we motivate and keep a students interest?
Illustrate the idea!
References
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6 Reasons to use Art to Teach!
1. Art makes content accessible for every student 2. The arts encourage joyful and active learning 3. Art helps students make personal connections to content 4. Art helps students understand abstract content 5. Art stimulates higher level thinking 6. The Arts build community and help children engage in collaborative work (Lively Learning by Linda Crawford)