Description
Creative thinking is the #1 skill needed in the workforce, so it is a skill we must protect and continue developing in our students. Creativity is so much more than just artistry. The arts can help our students think creatively in every other subject area.
Award-winning educator, Genein Letford, shares how Intercultural Creativity®, which integrates cultural competence with creative thinking, is strengthened through arts integration. Her brain-backed curriculum ideas are easy to implement and increase engagement while advancing creative thinking for both the teacher and the students.
In this 1-hour course, you will learn:
- How to identify visual art elements and their characteristics
- How to implement visual art elements into other content areas
- How to increase students’ engagement and perspective-shifting
- How to incorporate creative thinking strategies with art foundations into general education content
Other courses in this series:
Intercultural Creativity for Classrooms and Beyond
Start with Art: Music Integration for the Gifted
EQ and Emotional Granularity for the Gifted
Jeffery – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Useful concepts
Jesse – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
A different perspective on adding images to power point presentations.
Lucy – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
As a former art teacher, I absolutely love the idea of integrating art in the classroom to help my students learn.
Selina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I liked it!
Elisa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It is informative.
Idalia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It’s a different approach to do lessons.
Martin – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas
carlos – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
good course
Jimmy – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I really appreciate the info and I thought the presenter did a great job and was well-polished. I think I just wanted more examples of ways to use the interconnectivity of the arts and my core content in the classroom. The examples given were very good, just not enough, in my opinion.
Oscar – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was a fun and quick course that helps integrate art into the core classes.
Arizbeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I love the course it brings in new perspectives to apply in the classroom and make it fun
Leanna – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great
Kealey – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed learning about some new elements and how I can utilize them with my class.
Ronnie – SPRING BRANCH ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course.
Kassandra – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
great course to integrative visual art in any classroom setting and improve students creativity skills and cultural competence
Sherry – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting and original.
Dean – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I’m not into art, so this course was a bit hard for me to follow.
Matthew – CIRCLEVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
One of the better ones
William – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Very thought provoking.
Betsy – TEAYS VALLEY LOCAL (verified owner) –
It was a great review of the creativity classes I took as part of my gifted coursework.
Shayne – ROCK HILL LOCAL (verified owner) –
The buttons are misleading. I kept clicking next instead of submit because the submit button was so light and the next button was so dark. Anyone taking this course would click next instead of submit, so fix that. Please?
Yolanda – Napoleon Area City Schools (verified owner) –
Great ways to incorporate the elements of art into lessons
Dominique – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner) –
It was ok
Candice – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –
Love including art
jaime – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Great training never new how much art can help students learn
Ana – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
informative
Joel – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It’s good!
Sandra – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It demonstrates ways to show students how to think and become creative. This will help students show their work in different ways.
Tammy – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
The course contained new information for me and got me thinking about how I would incorporate the ideas in my own classroom. I feel like I would have benefitted from some more examples of HOW to integrate the ideas. Since this is new to me, a wider variety of sample would have been helpful.
Michelle – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
This was a good course on how to incorporate art, music, and theater into lessons.
Leticia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was informal and is a great way to incorporate art in the classroom.
Lauren – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
It was great
Diana – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent.
Jorge – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The course provides the perspective of Art, that might have become underrated in teaching gifted students.
Richard – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
This is good
Susan – TEAYS VALLEY LOCAL (verified owner) –
This is a great instruction to visual arts!
Michelle – Defiance City Schools (verified owner) –
I love how the instructor was able to relate the arts to other subject areas. It sparked a lot of creative thinking when planning or introducing lessons!
Bethany – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
its good
Shawn – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
I really like the way the art was presented as a stimulation to a conversation before a lesson was taught.
Grace – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great course! Helps in understanding the connection between curriculum and visual arts.
Kristen – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas and love the Gems!
Tara – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this course. I do use aspects of these studies within my teaching in the classroom. The graphic that describes the Gems of Intercultural Creativity is amazing. I am going to print this resource to use with my planning.
trista – CRESTVIEW LOCAL – VAN WERT COUNTY (verified owner) –
Great way to bring different learning techniques into the classroom.
Patricia – DONNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great ideas shared to help incorporate art within the lessons.
Michelle – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course!
Julie – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
Great ideas for using art in the classroom
Tami – Prince George County Public Schools (verified owner) –
could have been more in depth
Ronda – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
This was a very useful course that encourages teachers to creatively use strategies to encourage higher level thinking and increase student engagement.
Elizabeth – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
This gives you practical ideas for implementing art in the classroom.
Kevin – DELAWARE CITY (verified owner) –
Nice intro, needs more.