EDUA 5110 Arts Education for Early Learning
ARTS EDUCATION FOR EARLY LEARNING AND EMERGENT LITERACY
The arts surround us in everything we hear, see, and feel, provide emotional context for our experiences, and heighten our awareness of the world around us. The arts also deepen learning for students. In this course, teachers learn how to navigate arts-based educational strategies to foster creative thinking skills and nurture the continuing growth of children’s literacy skills and cognitive development. The teacher will learn what the arts are, why they are important, how they contribute to a child’s social-emotional, cognitive, creative, and psychomotor learning, and how they can be a part of everyday literacy instruction. With easy-to-use, pedagogical models, the teacher will discover how to intentionally plan arts activities and lessons to deliver classroom content and embrace arts-based strategies as effective and powerful learning tools.