Teacher Candidates learn to integrate the arts (dance, drama/theatre arts, music and visual arts) into elementary curricula in meaningful ways that enhance students' self-awareness, wellness, and abilities to communicate with, consider, and interact with others and other cultures. This class may include students from multiple sections.
Must be seeking a Bachelor of Applied Science in Teacher Education degree to enroll. If interested, visit pencol.edu/bas
Prerequisites
Teacher Education BAS Program Admittance
Course Outcomes
- Explain how dance, music, theatre, and visual arts shape and reflect culture and history and demonstrate the connections the arts have to other disciplines, cultures, life, and work.
- Articulate an understanding of how individual, social, and cultural factors influence academic and social/emotional development and interpersonal communication for a variety of audience and purposes.
- Demonstrate the thinking skills used in the creation, communication of, and responding to the visual and performing arts.
- Demonstrate how to access the support of the visual and performing arts through the school, district, community, and region.
- Explain how the arts can support a linguistically, culturally, developmentally, trauma responsive approach to teaching and learning.
- Articulate how learning in and through the arts supports the development of creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, persistence, observation, and reflection, and how these capacities support wellness.