7-Amanda Ainsworth- Response to "Use Arts Integration to Enhance Common Core"

The Edutopia article, "Use Arts Integration to Enhance Common Core" describes different strategies to implement arts into the Common Core classroom. The article claims that this integration, while it may be difficult at first, will actually make it easier to teach concepts outlined in the Common Core.The author of this article says that subjects like math and reading are easy to understand when some form of the arts are integrated into the unit. Arts integration should be done to equally involve all students and their different learning styles. Some of the strategies given for integration are mirroring, which entails having students mirror each other's actions, "stepping into the painting", where each child looks at and interprets a particular painting and then the class gets together to compare their interpretations and come up with one large story, and call and response, which uses a rhythm and helps students practice fluency.

I found this article to be very informational and helpful. I am a big advocate of  keeping the arts in education so I would love to use some of these strategies to get my students more interested in the curriculum and the arts at the same time. I also think that students will become more engaged in lessons if some form of the arts is added in. Students learn many things through music, especially, which is why we teach them the ABCs in song form.