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Benefits Of Implementing Visual Arts For Elementary School Students, Desiree Conway
Benefits Of Implementing Visual Arts For Elementary School Students, Desiree Conway
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
Walking into an elementary classroom you might have observed that visual arts have been consistently disappearing from elementary school classrooms. Visual arts curriculum is especially important in elementary schools because it helps students to fully understand concepts in other areas of their academics. This senior capstone will focus and discuss the many benefits of implementing visual arts into an elementary school classroom. Through the use of a literature review and interviews with teachers. The findings reveal that when visual arts are implemented into elementary schools, they do indeed serve students well and have positive effects in all academic areas of …
Evaluation Of Monterey Jazz Festival’S Clinicians In The Schools Program, Miguel L. Santos
Evaluation Of Monterey Jazz Festival’S Clinicians In The Schools Program, Miguel L. Santos
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
In recent years arts education programs in schools have been drastically reduced or eliminated due to economic challenges. Underfunded schools are forced to focus on the mandated curriculum. Though it is proven that arts education increases a student’s academic performance it is not funded at the same level components of academia. The Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF) assists schools in Monterey County that are suffering from the absence of art education. MJF partners with local schools by providing the necessary resources to ensure the continuance of arts education. This capstone consisted of an evaluation of MJF’s Clinicians in the Schools program …
Supporting Art In Low-Income Education, Gina Buckley
Supporting Art In Low-Income Education, Gina Buckley
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
This Capstone Paper focused on implementing art into low-income communities. The participants for the Capstone Project included 32 fifth-grade students in a public elementary school located on California’s Central Coast. The Capstone Project began by showing the students a video with figurative language music. After that, the researcher showed a presentation on the different figurative language to help the students understand the project better. The students then got into groups of four and created a poster on each of the different figurative language. After that, the next day, the students created Paint-Chip Poetry to reflect on what they had learned …