Benefits of the Arts in kindergarten - An

EFL Perspective

by :

Ni Putu Suryantini

(4359)

Indexs

RationaleDefining “the arts”

3 areas of “The arts”

Visual arts

Music and dance

Drama

Advantages

Stengh & Weakness

Solution

Closure

example

RationaleAs the teacher we

often think we have to be artistic to

introduce or the arts to student; However, being an artistic is not a prerequersite for teachers who want to introduce arts to young children.

Defining “The Arts”It is necessary to define what is mean by “the arts” since more only often than not, teachers only provide painting and crafts classes when trying to accomodate the arts. There is so much

more to this areas of learning. Arts Education includes four distinct

discipline areas, each with a separate body of knowledge and skill

including : dance, drama, music and visual arts

(Black,2004).

Integrating “The Arts”

Methods

Modeling and demonstrating

Providing descriptive feedback

Explaining to help organize children’s thought

Asking Question to extend children’s ideas and understanding

When the arts are integrated in the early childhood ,

childrens are given opportunites to

express themselves visually what they may not be able to say verbally. Young Children are given

develop independence,

confidence, pride and self expression through hands on learning in an environment that

simulates creativity through the arts

Visual ArtsA teacher can integrate visual arts with language arts by giving children a

literature response activity.

As a teacher plan a theme, think of art activities related to the topic of discussion in class.

Visual arts learners will surely show progress in language learning when

presented with artistic or practical activities to

apply langguage or knowledge

Example :“Healthy and Unhealthy

food”

Student can cut examples of these food and glue onto a plate.

Making phonics collages from magazine and newspaper is also another great visual

art activity

Music and DanceTeacher can integrate music and dance. Songs

also introduce new vocabulary or sentence

structure.

As the teacher we should consider bringing in a third dimension to this learning environtment. Instead of just using

available musical instrument, student could make “noise-makers” to use.

Example : “Twinkle-twinkle

little stars”

For “noise makers”Dried beans in the

bottle. Empty Big bottle aqua-can-drums

etc

DramaIt is also easy to integrate drama by

making animal mask or puppets and have

children pretend to be an animal.

Teacher could use drama to provide a beneficial supplemental approach.

Dramatic play also serves as a motivator for learning. Students’

overall understanding of a story improves once engaged in the

enactment of the story

Example :“The Ant and the

Grasshoper”

But I think it is very effective if we shown

drama by pupet and using mix

language.

The Advantages of using Arts in TEYL:

Providing students with the opportunity to

practice the arts, have multiple benefits, some

of which are :

• Access multiple intelligences

• Develop higher thinking skills

• Enchance multicultural understandings

• Build self esteem• Gain positive

emotional responses to learning

• Engage through a variety of learning sytles

StrengthLearning English

which are integrated by

visual arts, music, dance and also

drama will be more fun and very effective for beginner.

WeaknessTo much spending lots

of money.

Solution

We must be patient to help students

understanding well.

We need prepare a plan before .

Cause it can help us to know what is the next step should we do

together. So we can count these

costs

ClosureEx :Visual arts

Ex : Music and Dance

Ex : Drama