![]() ![]() They also valued the opportunity for students to be creative and develop skills in new areas. They saw how well the visual arts could engage students and help them understand academic subjects. Teachers reported that the project made them more aware of the value of art as an “access point” for other subject areas, and helped them see opportunities to incorporate visual arts within the school curriculum, particularly in longer-term units of study. The classroom teachers became more comfortable teaching visual arts over time, and began to see the value integrating the visual arts into the core curriculum.Both teachers and school arts specialists reported a greater likelihood of implementing arts-integrated lessons in the future. Teachers who collaborated on a weekly basis with a professional artist to teach arts lessons integrated with math and ELA reported greater job satisfaction by the end of the year, and reported greater skills in the area of discussing arts achievement with students.Furthermore, they intend to continue their collaboration, though they do acknowledge heavy teaching loads and scheduling constraints pose a challenge. ![]()
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