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Srijanalaya’s Art-in-School is a teacher training program on how to integrate the arts in the daily classroom. Through workshops and hands-on demonstrations, Srijanalaya’s team of artists and art educators create lessons that incorporate different visual arts mediums that align with the government curricular. This site is a resource of our lessons, available to all educators.

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Our Lesson Plans

Why do we believe in an arts integrated education?

Teachers using art-integrated methods create more responsive students and dynamic classrooms. Not only do students enjoy engaging in the lessons, their motor and visual literacy skills improve as well as their long-term information retention abilities. Furthermore, art integration also provides teachers multiple ways to assess each child’s social development and academic understanding of the lesson.

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📣 What are the impacts of our lessons? 📣

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Creating a Responsive Classroom

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Student Engagement

Bringing arts in the classroom promotes student centered learning. Students are more engaged when they are allowed to express themselves in hands-on and exploratory activity. Subjects can be taught repititively using different mediums.

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Listening To Each Other

Arts allows students to focus on a medium, which brings order to an unresponsive and loud classroom. Specifically, teachers state how drawing quiets the students. Furthermore, backbenchers who previously were not paying attention become interested as well.

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Joyful Learning

Activities involving movement, specifically dancing and singing, excite students. Being silly with art brings laughter. Students are excited to present their works to share and celebrate them with the class. Furthermore, teachers are amazed how well their students are able to draw.

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Bridging Home and School

Art is a crucial connection facilitates the flow of communication between these two vital spheres of a child's life. It ensures that values, perspectives and insights from both realms harmoniously contribute to their growth. It also allows students understand how both the academic sphere and their home relate to each other.

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Respecting Differences

In art, each student can present their works that represent their background, culture, ethnicity, language, gender, and priviledge. Tapping into students’ cultural and linguistic knowledge better equips educators to cultivate daily learning experiences that promote authentic and sustained learning.

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Cognitive Memory: Long Term Retention

By engaging students in the process of actively retrieving information through mediums like quizzes, flashcards, songs, storytelling, repetition, revision, and drawing, teacher can enhance their ability to retain and comprehend the context more effectively. Using especially storytelling and collage to solidify the students' knowledge, the knowledge art carries is embedded in student’s memory. Incorporating long term memory into teaching practice can help facilitate the development of a strong cognitive foundation, ultimately leading to enriched understanding and lasting retention for the students.

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Student Improvement

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Improving Motor Skills

Teachers we have taught that have been surprised during art integrated lessons that students are able to draw, collage, or move than they expected. Furthemore, the more the teachers engaged in practical activities, the more the students are able to engage in the acitivity quickly.

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Developing Visual Literacy

We observed that the tendency to use images and objects to engage students in conversation or in extended physical activities allowed students to exercise different intelligences such as spatial, naturalistic, interpersonal, linguistic, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, logical-mathematical intelligences. This allowed for greater participation across diverse students.

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