'Tying it all together' was the theme of our last tutorial with Maureen and Gerard, emphasizing the importance of staying awake to the generating, realizing and responding elements in art sessions. A great demonstration was experienced through the use of a pretext to integrate various learning areas in the arts.
Pretext: A launching pad, sets in motion the learning/inquiry, rings up the curtain by framing the participants.
The activity began with Maureen narrating the Irish folk-tale, The seal wife (pretext).
From the gaps in the story, we (in groups) shared freeze frame moments with the class, discussing what they saw and what our moment was. From this freeze Drama we then chose a piece of music and composed a dance that began before the freeze moment, led through it and continued after it. In less than an hour we had experienced literacy (generalizing with the pretext), Drama (realizing through freeze moments), music and dance (responding). This activity could then be extended by writing up the stories the different groups had realized, through drawing or painting these interpretations or include the use of multimedia to document the moments. There really is no limit and it was the perfect example of using the two levels of integrating that Lina spoke of earlier: inside (combine two or more types of arts together), and outside (integrate the arts within other learning areas).
If you can foster the arts in your classroom, you will be fostering a supportive community and a positive place to work, teach and learn within.
Pretext: A launching pad, sets in motion the learning/inquiry, rings up the curtain by framing the participants.
The activity began with Maureen narrating the Irish folk-tale, The seal wife (pretext).
From the gaps in the story, we (in groups) shared freeze frame moments with the class, discussing what they saw and what our moment was. From this freeze Drama we then chose a piece of music and composed a dance that began before the freeze moment, led through it and continued after it. In less than an hour we had experienced literacy (generalizing with the pretext), Drama (realizing through freeze moments), music and dance (responding). This activity could then be extended by writing up the stories the different groups had realized, through drawing or painting these interpretations or include the use of multimedia to document the moments. There really is no limit and it was the perfect example of using the two levels of integrating that Lina spoke of earlier: inside (combine two or more types of arts together), and outside (integrate the arts within other learning areas).
If you can foster the arts in your classroom, you will be fostering a supportive community and a positive place to work, teach and learn within.
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