Katherine Chin - Visual pedagogy project for M333 "Art Experiences for Elementary Generalists", Spring 2012 at Indiana University Bloomington. Instructor Hallie DeCatherine Jones.

1. Visual Pedagogy
Project
By: Katherine Chin

2. Visual Environment at Mary E.
Nicholson Performing Arts
School #70
Schools.ips.k12.in.us

3. Guiding Questions
1. How do the arts play a part in my
school, especially since it is a performing
arts school?
2. What are the positive aspects of
performing arts schools? How have they
succeeded?

4. Process of Inquiry
 I began by thinking about my guiding questions,
wondering how I would be able to answer the
questions.
 I took pictures of all the performing arts in my
school and how my teacher incorporated the
visual arts in her classroom.
 I asked my teacher how she felt about visual arts.

5. “The visual and performing arts
are process-rich disciplines,
and thus the bid to integrate
arts into all lessons created a
rich forum for process
conversations.”- Williamson
and Zimmerman
 Performing arts leads to
improvements in learning because
students become more engaged and
are allowed to be creative within their
projects.

6. Visuals around the school
These visuals represent famous people that have
succeeded in the arts, from musicians, jazz dancers,
artists, singers, playwrights, and philosophers.
Mary E. Nicholson #70

7. Magnet Sculpture
This magnet is
placed at the entry
way of the school to
represent that this is a
magnet school.
School uses a
metaphor to
incorporate the arts
into their school.

8.  “Everything that we as a nation say we want for
our children and demand from our schools can
be found in the arts: academic achievement,
social and emotional development, civic
engagement, and equitable opportunity.”-Smith
 "If they're worried about their test scores and
want a way to get them higher, they need to
give kids more arts, not less," says Tom Horne,
Arizona's state superintendent of public
instruction. "There's lots of evidence that kids
immersed in the arts do better on their academic
tests.”-Smith

9. Specials Around the School
Fau.edu

10. Theater
Self Confidence
Memory
Imagination
Social Awareness
Aesthetic Appreciation
-The Benefits of Drama
Education

11. Dance
Improved physical
health
Social interaction
Improved self esteem
Appreciation of arts
and different cultures

12. Art
“Stimulates and
develops the
imagination and
critical thinking,
and refines
cognitive and
creative skills.”-
Americans for the
Arts

13. Music/ Band and Strings

14. This chart taken from Critical Evidence
How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement
shows all of the skills that arts learning
helps improve.

15. How my teacher integrated art
My teacher told me that she integrates art into her classroom
because it is a performing arts school, so she is able to
incorporate more art. Also the students are more inclined to do
art because they appreciate and enjoy it.

16. Connections to M333
 Helped me answer guiding questions.
 Can or should children’s visual productions be evaluated?
 What do visual experiences mean to children? How do
children develop and grow in their abilities to communicate
visually?
 Connects to the Eisner article.
 Performing arts school show that it is important to
incorporate the arts in education.
 Including arts opens up doors of opportunities.

17. Personal Teaching
Philosophy
I would definitely
incorporate the arts within
my classroom.
If I got the opportunity to
work in a performing arts
school I would, because I
think it is good for students
to gain experience with all
of these different
performing arts.

18. Sources
 Americans for the Arts, 2002.
 Benefits of Drama Education. http://www.dramaed.net/benefits.pdf
 Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Students Achievement.
www.nasaa-arts.org/research/…/arts-education/critical-evidence.pdf
 Mary E. Nicholson Performing Arts
 Smith, Fran Why Arts Education Is Crucial, and Who's Doing It Best.
Edutopia.com
 Williamson, Jeff and Zimmerman, Diane. Collaboration Takes Center
Stage: Interactive Teaching through a Schoolwide Focus on the
Performing Arts Leads to Dramatic Improvements in Learning. Journal
of Staff Development, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p38, 5p