Week 8

What are the arguments for teaching the Arts?

Sousa makes several different arguments for teaching the arts in schools. Basically, the arts play an important part in human development, enhancing the growth of cognitive, emotional, and psycho motor pathways. Schools are also obligated to expose the children to the arts at a young age and consider arts as fundamental, not optional, curriculum areas. Lastly, learning the arts provides higher quality human experience through a person's lifestyle.

How does art education develop cognitive growth?

Sousa provides several ways art education develops cognitive growth. First and foremost, students exposed to well-designed art experiences produce positive academic and social effects and assist in the development of critical development of critical academic skills, basic and advanced literacy, and numeracy. Students also develop essential thinking tools like: pattern recognition and development ;mental representation; careful observed or imagined; symbolic, allegorical, and metaphorical representations; careful observation of the world; and abstraction from complexity. Students also learn to work more diligently and learn from each other.

Week 7

What impact does hemispheric preference have on learning style?

Hemispheric preference has to do with how each student's brain processes the information. Since the brain is divided into two pieces, each side processes different information. The left side of the brain mainly deals with verbal concepts and the right side of the brain deals with things like mathematical concepts. Therefore when students use their more dominant side for learning, they tend to learn things easier and also remember them a lot better. However, they can still learn with their less dominant side, their more dominate side just makes it easier to comprehend different information.

Week 6

What is meant by the statement " Today's learning is tomorrow's transfer?"

Today's learning is tomorrow's transfer. This statement is meant that students will learn the knowledge that is taught in class and then tomorrow it will either transfer into their working memory, long term memory, or just go right out the door. A transfer is when a student's brain decides on what to do the the information. When teachers teach their students while they are engaged for example just by acting by doing or teaching others, the information being processed transfers over to the long term memory. Other wise like if teachers teach in a lecture format, it is less likely for the student to transfer the information into the long term memory. Usually it will just go out.
This is very important for a teacher to be aware of this and should be reminded to teach where students are engaged as well as making sure they are teaching more effectively.

Week 5

How will the current view of intellegence impact you teaching and learning?

Since there are many different kinds of intelligences, it is important to teach using these ways of teaching. It is best in different styles and keeping the students brains working all around. Having consistent lectures everyday will bore your students, it is best to teach in a variety. Some students also have more background knowledge than other students so it is important to not expect that all students will know certain information. It is also wise to go at a steady pace where fasting learners are still learning while the slower learners are not feeling rushed.