Creative Arts 1

What: My personal experience with the arts has been decent. I had a few really good teachers in my elementary years that did a good job of incorporating arts into other subjects. I also had a few teachers that really brought music to our classroom and would have it playing the background, or else we would learn songs either for fun or that helped us remember something we were learning.

So What: For me arts has always been something that i loved. My favorite time of day would be art time. And in my 3rd grade year we put on a program for the whole school. We learned a lot of songs and some of the songs had dances or actions that we would do. It was just really fun to have that time during the day to learn songs and dance. Some of my favorite teachers were the ones that really cared about my school work and my life. The ones that really got to know me. The teachers that i weren't close to were the ones that just cared about the homework and grades, not about their students. So i hope to take what i learned from my teachers and apply it to my life so that i can be the best teacher possible.

Now What: Now i need to take skills that i have see teachers do as well as what i learned in chapters 1-3 and use them. As for preparing myself for integrative teaching i need to practice teaching and see what kind of art i could use while teaching a core subject.