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Overview - Letter to the Educator - ArtLinks Newsletters Dear Educator,
Through arts education, or the study of topics such as visual arts, music, theater, creative writing, and dance, we have passed on skills that have defined and perpetuated our culture. State curriculum regulations in Pennsylvania continue to support this tradition by encouraging the performance and exhibition of the arts, evaluation and critical response to works, and the development of aesthetic understanding. Through arts integration, in which arts processes are used to support the acquisition of knowledge in core curricular areas - such as math, social studies, language arts, and science - a further usefulness for the arts is dawning. More and more, educators are recognizing the value of interdisciplinary coursework and team teaching to provide greater depth of learning and more impetus for original thinking and problem-solving by students. The pooled talents and resources of classroom teachers and their own school's arts specialists create the strongest foundation on which to build this type of teamwork. But the collaboration need not stop there. Within ArtLinks you will meet individual artists and arts organizations with much knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm to offer your school. In our ArtLinks articles, you will learn how best to utilize their services. The dictionary says that art is the creation of something beautiful, appealing, and of more than ordinary significance. We hope that through Arts-In-Education, you can link up with arts resources that will help your teaching - and your students' learning - become a more artful process. Arts-In-Education
Coalition
©2007 Lehigh Valley Arts Council
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