Reflection 6: Field Experince

While I knew that I wanted to integrated Creative Arts in my lessons I didn't realize how easy it actually would be for me. It was actually one the most important things to me, to make sure that the kids were in some way using creative thinking while learning the subject matter at hand. Perhaps most importantly however was that I was able to notice how important it was for the students to have this aspect in instruction. In a couple of the lessons that Kristy and I did we first had to do direct instruction before the activities we had planned. The difference in interest between that and when there was no follow up was amazing. The students became actively involved in asking questions to make sure that they knew what was going on for the games that we had planned, and even students who were not normally involved were raising their hands with the rest of the class.

This just proved to me how important it is to include the creative arts in small ways throughout every single lesson planned. Human beings are innately curious, but something first has to spark that and creative arts is that something. Areas that don't seem to connect to this are the ones that are most important to do so with though... like math and science. Both involve creativity, but are often blocked to students who look at it as firm data that has no change. This is the exact opposite when you get to the most important areas of these fields. It's my goal in the future to do just this, and look forward to implementing creative arts in these areas as well. :)