Arts Integration in School Counseling
Presenter Name(s)
Sheila Garth
Target Audience
Elementary
Abstract
Are you interested in making your lessons more engaging and creative? Arts Integration is for you! Arts Integration combines Art Standards (music, drama, dance, and visual arts) within the ASCA Behaviors and Mindset standards to create innovative, insightful, creative, and meaningful lessons.
Description
The learning objective of the presentation is to provide counselors with take home lessons that contain Arts Integrated lesson plans that can be applied to ASCA Behaviors and Mindsets. These lessons are comprised of drama, dance, music, and visual arts. Throughout the session, counselors will be acting, drawing, dancing, and singing/ listening to music as we explore the lessons that I am providing them. The outcome of my presentation is not only provide counselors with highly engaging lessons, but to also show them how we can collaborate with other content areas by considering their standards as well as our own. This “whole child” approach is a part of best practices in teaching and counseling. Below is an article that I have written (published on Education Closet.com) reflecting my own insights to the power of Arts Integration.
https://educationcloset.com/2016/11/10/social-emotional-connections-arts-integration/