Learning with art is like learning to ride a bicycle.

 

Learning with art is like learning to ride a bicycle.

By Gaddier first publish in Spanish in July 2013

We live in an interactive and hyperactive environment with a number of visual and environmental stimuli that are often beyond our conscious capacity for assimilation. Just see how many times you are writing an e-mail or playing games on your phone while you watch a TV show and listen to music at the same time. Then we try to understand the current incidence in children and adults of what they call learning and behavioral disorders such as ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Doctors and health professionals mostly seek to counteract the issue with medicines that In my opinion, they help teachers more because they do not have to deal with one more challenge in the classroom, than they help children who take such medications that can have severe side effects. When other smarter methods can be used to help students in their intellectual, social and emotional development. The integration of art in education is one of the methods that can most help students.

Please understand that this is not just a visual arts or music class or course which I mean, but a true integration into the school curriculum, you can teach division with drums or scale of measurement with drawing workshops while having a real experience of teamwork and socio-cultural connection with individual personal satisfaction in the simple task of making a mural.
Professor Ron Butzlaff published with the University of Illinois; A pilot intervention study showed that music skills training is an additional valuable strategy to help students with reading difficulties. There are other studies that explain how the arts can be of great help in developing specific skills. Drawing helps writing, songs and poetry to memorization, dance and theater help to understand the processes more easily. At the same time as the understanding of being, society and culture. The individual and others. Art education allows us to see the connection with society, helping to understand other cultures, their stories, symbols, myths, values ​​and beliefs. Art is a powerful tool because it enables it to stimulate, motivate and attract the attention of different types of students.

Learning that occurs in contexts where artistic activities are developed generate significant experiences that load the content of what has been learned with meaning. Not only do they allow for a greater depth of learning, but they also positively impact future learning experiences.

Learning with art is like learning to ride a bicycle once you know it, you never forget it.