1. D1.Due to budget cuts, art programs are generally the first to be cut from school systems. They are deemed unnecessary; in what areas of learning and development does art play a role? -Answer can include: Basic reading skills, language development, writing skills, focus, concentration, skills in expression, persistence, imagination, creativity, and inclinations to tackle problems with zeal.
2. Education is an important part of any culture. Why would adding public art in schools be important? -Answer could include: Way to recognize the value of our places of learning, as long as the art is by students, staff, and the surrounding community. Helps create engaging facilities that students, faculty, staff, and communities find attractive and exciting. School buildings are a major factor in a child’s education, they are functional and meet curriculum requirements, but they do set the tone to encourage imagination, enthusiasm, and growth.
3.In what subject areas can art improve?
-Answer: All of them!
4. How can art teach diversity? -Answer could include: Art provides a medium for children to explore a large number of cultures in the world as well as different styles and experiences within their own. Facilitates the opportunity for students to communicate and to share knowledge and information across cultures. Through children’s artwork a teacher can facilitate discussion about what cultural experiences led to the style of art represented.
5. Why would colleges care what your extra-curricular activities are?
-Answers could include: How you’ve made a meaningful contribution to something. What your non-academic interests are. Whether you can maintain a long-term commitment. Whether you can manage your time and priorities. What diversity you’d bring to the student body.
Dance:
1. Dance is similar to a sport in that it is competitive and involves many of the same aspects however, it is still considered a fine art for now
2. False: Many colleges have athletic dance teams or club teams
3. To promote the activity and educational training that started with drill teams
4. Performances in schools, involvement in community, dance camps, and to condition and improve technical skill
Music: 1. List five ways that music can help us learn. -Answer can include: establish a positive learning state, create a desired atmosphere, build a sense of anticipation, energize learning activities, change brain wave states, focus concentration, increase attention, improve memory, facilitate a multisensory learning experience, release tension, enhance imagination, align groups, develop rapport, provide inspiration and motivation, add an element of fun, or accentuate theme-oriented units.
2.
What part of a child's growth and development
can music effect?
-A nswers can include: Social Interaction, Emotional Development, Physical Development, or Cognitive Development.
3. In the text: Composer Bruce Adolphe said, “To have music education stricken from the school system is devastating” What percent of K-12 students will be deprived of an education that includes music after the current round of budget cuts? -Answer: 60 percent.
Sports: 1. In what ways does physical education enrich the lives of the youth? -Answers can inlcude: long-lasting health and fitness skills, encouraging relationships with caring and consistent adults, and by enhancing self respect and respect for other through the Power of Positive Play.
2. True or false: Being involved with sports in high school while having to deal with all other responsibilities such as work, school, home etc. adds more stress to a student? -Answer is: False.
3. What are the three P's that associate with being involved in a sport and are beneficial to any student? -Answer is: Practice, Patience, Persistence.
Theatre:
1. When did the style of Noh and it's performance first begin?
-Answer: It's a style of Noh production and performance, and almost the entire repertoire of Noh plays, is established within a few decades of that day in 1374.
2. Theatres are built in many different structures. Describe what a "Thrust Theatre" looks like.
-Answer: A Stage surrounded by audience on three sides. The Fourth side serves as the background.
In a typical modern arrangement: the stage is often a square or rectangular playing area, usually raised, surrounded by raked seating.
3. What are the three main types of plays in performing arts?
-Answer: Drama, Comedy, Musical.
Art:
1. D1.Due to budget cuts, art programs are generally the first to be cut from school systems. They are deemed unnecessary; in what areas of learning and development does art play a role?
-Answer can include: Basic reading skills, language development, writing skills, focus, concentration, skills in expression, persistence, imagination, creativity, and inclinations to tackle problems with zeal.
2. Education is an important part of any culture. Why would adding public art in schools be important?
-Answer could include: Way to recognize the value of our places of learning, as long as the art is by students, staff, and the surrounding community. Helps create engaging facilities that students, faculty, staff, and communities find attractive and exciting. School buildings are a major factor in a child’s education, they are functional and meet curriculum requirements, but they do set the tone to encourage imagination, enthusiasm, and growth.
3.In what subject areas can art improve?
-Answer: All of them!
4. How can art teach diversity?
-Answer could include: Art provides a medium for children to explore a large number of cultures in the world as well as different styles and experiences within their own. Facilitates the opportunity for students to communicate and to share knowledge and information across cultures. Through children’s artwork a teacher can facilitate discussion about what cultural experiences led to the style of art represented.
5. Why would colleges care what your extra-curricular activities are?
-Answers could include: How you’ve made a meaningful contribution to something. What your non-academic interests are. Whether you can maintain a long-term commitment. Whether you can manage your time and priorities. What diversity you’d bring to the student body.
Dance:
1. Dance is similar to a sport in that it is competitive and involves many of the same aspects however, it is still considered a fine art for now
2. False: Many colleges have athletic dance teams or club teams
3. To promote the activity and educational training that started with drill teams
4. Performances in schools, involvement in community, dance camps, and to condition and improve technical skill
Music:
1. List five ways that music can help us learn.
-Answer can include: establish a positive learning state, create a desired atmosphere, build a sense of anticipation, energize learning activities, change brain wave states, focus concentration, increase attention, improve memory, facilitate a multisensory learning experience, release tension, enhance imagination, align groups, develop rapport, provide inspiration and motivation, add an element of fun, or accentuate theme-oriented units.
2.
What part of a child's
growth and development
can music effect?
-A
nswers can include: Social Interaction, Emotional Development, Physical Development, or Cognitive Development.
3. In the text: Composer Bruce Adolphe said, “To have music education stricken from the school system is devastating” What percent of K-12 students will be deprived of an education that includes music after the current round of budget cuts?
-Answer: 60 percent.
Sports:
1. In what ways does physical education enrich the lives of the youth?
-Answers can inlcude: long-lasting health and fitness skills, encouraging relationships with caring and consistent adults, and by enhancing self respect and respect for other through the Power of Positive Play.
2. True or false: Being involved with sports in high school while having to deal with all other responsibilities such as work, school, home etc. adds more stress to a student?
-Answer is: False.
3. What are the three P's that associate with being involved in a sport and are beneficial to any student?
-Answer is: Practice, Patience, Persistence.
Theatre:
1. When did the style of Noh and it's performance first begin?
-Answer: It's a style of Noh production and performance, and almost the entire repertoire of Noh plays, is established within a few decades of that day in 1374.
2. Theatres are built in many different structures. Describe what a "Thrust Theatre" looks like.
-Answer: A Stage surrounded by audience on three sides. The Fourth side serves as the background.
In a typical modern arrangement: the stage is often a square or rectangular playing area, usually raised, surrounded by raked seating.
3. What are the three main types of plays in performing arts?
-Answer: Drama, Comedy, Musical.