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This course has an assignment that is due by 11:55 pm Central Standard Time on Wednesday night of the first week of class. Failure to complete this assignment will result in your removal from the course for non-participation.

Textbooks

Isenberg, Joan Packer & Jalongo, Mary Renck. (2018).  Creative Thinking and Arts-Based Learning.  Seventh Edition.  Pearson: NY NY.  ISBN 13: 978-0-13-446112-0

Course Special Requirements

The student must have access to extra materials – any technology that can videotape, a camera, the capability to upload a video to YouTube, and art materials such as paint, pastels, charcoal, etc.

Course Description

This course is designed to encourage observation, participation, expression and appreciation through creative activity while exploring music, drama, visual arts, storytelling, poetry and movement. Participants will engage with information that will provide a clear view of the knowledge and skills to be internalized in order to maximize instructional opportunities and insure a successful professional career in education.

Course Objectives

1)  To experience and plan a variety of creative arts activities which can be used with diverse learners.     
 
2)  To develop an appreciation of the great value of expressive arts and play for learners unique to age levels. 
 
3)  To explore methods of teaching, evaluating and motivating in keeping with the philosophy of creative arts education. 
 
4) To examine a multitude of creative ideas which help learners to grow creatively, aesthetically, socially, emotionally, physically, and intellectually.
 
5)  To employ strategies for inquiry and self-reflection through the arts and realize the cultural symbolism of the arts.
 
6)  To realize the nature of imagery, language, movement and music within the imagination to produce and utilize the
creative arts as a communicative function of life.