ELEM 325 - Integrating the Arts

Description:
This course develops knowledge and skills to integrate the arts (i.e., dance, drama/theatre arts, music and visual arts) into elementary curricula. Course will be offered every year. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: Valid WSP/FBI fingerprint clearance is required for this course. The clearance must appear in OSPI’s Fingerprinting Database and be valid throughout the quarter enrolled.

Credits: (3)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Explain how dance, music, theatre, and visual arts shape and reflect culture and history.
Integrate to the curricula various visual and performing arts across cultures, artists, and time frames.
Demonstrate the thinking skills used in the creation, communication of, and responding to the visual and performing arts.
Demonstrate the connections the arts have to other disciplines, cultures, life, and work.
Demonstrate how to access the support of the visual and performing arts through the school, district, community, and region.
Formulate an understanding of how individual, social, and cultural factors influence interpersonal communication, academic, social/emotional development.
Implement culturally, relevant, research-based lessons in the arts.
Participate in a classroom community mindful of student engagement, learning, and positive relationships.
Explain how teachers connect learning to students (particularly those with special and diverse needs).

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
4/5/18