Benefits of the Arts in kindergarten - An EFL

Perspective

by :

Ni Putu Suryantini

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Indexs

Rationale

Defining “the arts” Integrating

“The Arts”

methode

3 areas of “The arts”

Visual arts

Music and dance

DramaAdvantages

Stengh & Weakness

Solution

Closure example

Rationale

As the teacher we often think we have to be

artistic to introduce or the arts to student; However, being an

artistic is not a prerequersite for

teachers who want to introduce arts to young

children.

Defining “The Arts”

It is necessary to define what is mean by “the arts” since more only often than not,

teachers only provide painting and crafts classes when trying to accomodate the arts. There is so much

more to this areas of learning. Arts Education

includes four distinct discipline areas, each with a separate body of knowledge and skill including : dance,

drama, music and visual arts (Black,2004).

Integrating “The Arts”

Methods

Modeling and demonstrating

Providing descriptive feedback

Explaining to help organize children’s

thought

Asking Question to extend children’s

ideas and understanding

When the arts are integrated in the early

childhood , childrens are given opportunites to express themselves

visually what they may not be able to say verbally.

Young Children are given develop independence,

confidence, pride and self expression through hands

on learning in an environment that

simulates creativity through the arts

Visual ArtsA teacher can integrate visual arts with language arts by giving children a

literature response activity.

As a teacher plan a theme, think of art activities related to the topic of

discussion in class. Visual arts learners will

surely show progress in language learning when

presented with artistic or practical activities to

apply langguage or knowledge

Example :“Healthy and Unhealthy

food”

Student can cut examples of these food and glue onto a plate. Making

phonics collages from magazine and newspaper

is also another great visual art activity

Music and DanceTeacher can integrate music and dance. Songs

also introduce new vocabulary or sentence

structure.

As the teacher we should consider bringing in a

third dimension to this learning environtment.

Instead of just using available musical

instrument, student could make “noise-

makers” to use.

Example :“Twinkle-twinkle little

stars”

For “noise makers”Dried beans in the bottle. Empty Big bottle aqua-can-

drums etc

DramaIt is also easy to integrate drama by

making animal mask or puppets and have

children pretend to be an animal.

Teacher could use drama to provide a beneficial supplemental approach.

Dramatic play also serves as a motivator for learning. Students’

overall understanding of a story improves once engaged in the

enactment of the story

Example :“The Ant and the

Grasshoper”

But I think it is very effective if we shown drama by pupet and using mix language.

The Advantages of using Arts in TEYL:

Providing students with the opportunity to practice the arts, have multiple benefits,

some of which are :

• Access multiple intelligences

• Develop higher thinking skills

• Enchance multicultural understandings

• Build self esteem

• Gain positive emotional responses to learning

• Engage through a variety of learning sytles

Strength

Learning English which are integrated by visual

arts, music, dance and also drama will be more fun and very effective

for beginner.

Weakness

To much spending lots of money.

Solution

We must be patient to help students

understanding well.

We need prepare a plan before .

Cause it can help us to know what is the next

step should we do together. So we can count these costs

ClosureEx :Visual arts

Ex : Music and Dance

Ex : Drama