Integrating the Arts Across the Content Areas (Strategies to Integrate the Arts Series) - Professional Development Teacher Resources - Arts-Based Classroom Activities to Motivate Students

This book is critical to the future of k-12 education

This book has arrived at a time when teachers need it most. Schools across the country are currently focusing all their efforts on teaching to meet the new Common Core Standards. Integrating the Arts Across the Content Areas re-assures teachers that they can meet the standards and teach creatively at the same time, all the while addressing needs for differentiated instruction and thematic learning. Every classroom teacher should read this book cover to cover to find great solutions to meeting standards and also the needs of every child in their classroom. Focusing on how arts strategies can meet curricular needs, the book is divided logically into seven chapters, six of which focus on individual art forms (poetry, music, storytelling, theater, visual arts and movement)and adaptations for their use in the classroom. The seventh chapter addresses planning and assessment, key to the success of an integrated arts classroom. Each chapter includes sidebars with fabulous resources, ways to meet the standards and activities to prepare the teacher to teach in this "new" way.If we are to teach our students 21st century skills, we can no longer teach to the test. By the time the test is taken, new knowledge and skills will be needed to succeed in our rapidly changing world. But by using arts strategies to teach in all content areas, we are also teaching focus, creative thinking, problem solving, and collaboration. Students learn how to make connections across areas of study, and new ways to show they know what they know. These are skills that our students will have to have in this century to survive. Donovan and Pascale have given teachers a highly readable, practical text for teachers who haven't given up on the art of teaching. I would go so far as to say that if the lessons of this book were employed in every classroom across the nation, we would see a dramatic increase in success among the students who usually fail, and an increase in productivity and creativity in all students.

I love this book. It provides great activities for integrating arts in the elementary curriculum. The Table of Content shows at the end Appendix A thru E from pages 197 - 210. However the book ends at page 200 and rest of the pages are simply missing. So I am not able to see the references on page 210. I already wrote all over the book now and I do not want to return it but disappointed.

This was the exact book that I needed to complete my summer course. The book came in great condition and was delivered in a timely manner!

I purchased this book for a STEM class I was in. Great book with many different activities and easy to read.

This book is entirely to repetitive in its word placement. If it stayed with more ideas instead of notable quotes it would flow a lot smoother. To give an example, if you took a shot after every quote you would be finished with a bottle by the middle of the second chapter. If the author(S) could just stick to their ideas and not cram everyone else's in, you wouldn't feel overly tired after reading it, again great ideas poor execution.

This book is a wonderful resource for any teacher. The authors give evidence for their claims and share wonderful strategies for teachers of any subject on how to integrate art effectively into the classroom. My students have loved all the activities we've done and my math class is better for it!

Well written, reader friendly, and filled with practical ideas. I also appreciate the arts advocacy and literary arts sections being included. I'm using this as a text for a university course I teach because it's affordable and concise, and I want my students to spend more time creating than reading.