Topic > Diverse Curriculum for Art Students - 526

Art is meant for everyone to enjoy and learn from. Through an artistic curriculum; phonics, math, and readiness skills, to name a few, can be learned through an arts curriculum. With this curriculum a teacher can adapt centers to teach people with different abilities, such as emotional and intellectual problems, visual impairments, hearing impairments and orthopedic disorders. The importance of having a curriculum that adapts to different students, allows the child to learn at their own level or ability. A child with emotional and intellectual problems may not have the verbal or comprehension skills or ability to control their body like their peers. With this in mind, classes with diverse students can excel with an adapted curriculum. An activity, for example, that involves using large Legos to teach the whole class about colors or numbers, can help intellectually challenge by asking them to construct a building using certain colors or quantities. By doing this activity students can have fun and learn at the same time using very few words. Even in a group activity emotions...