Top 10 skills children learn from the arts
www.washingtonpost.com: You don’t find school reformers talking much about how we need to train more teachers in the arts, given the current obsession with science, math, technology and engineering (STEM), but here’s a list of skills that young people learn from studying the arts. They serve as a reminder that the arts — while important to study for their intrinsic value — also promote skills seen as important in academic and life success. (That’s why some people talk about changing the current national emphasis on STEM to STEAM.) This was written by Lisa Phillips is an author, blog journalist, arts and leadership educator, speaker and business owner.
Campus weighs in on stress culture
The Tartan Online: Dean of Student Affairs Gina Casalegno, Vice Provost for Education Amy Burkert, and leaders in the student government hosted a Town Hall on Carnegie Mellon culture last Monday. The meeting, held in Rangos 1 in the University Center, was highly attended — the auditorium was filled to capacity.
Boerne teen crushed by stage prop; school says it won't pay
kens5.com San Antonio: Many people in the audience at Boerne High School on Nov. 15 described it as the worst thing they had ever witnessed. During opening night for the school's production of "Grease," a 16-year-old stagehand named Zach Bickford ran on stage to flip the page of a 12-foot-tall wooden yearbook. The structure, more than twice Zach's height with an estimated weight of 500 pounds, fell and crushed him.
High levels of stress at Carnegie Mellon decried
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: After learning that a fellow student at Carnegie Mellon University had committed suicide last month, graduating senior Katie Chironis would not stay silent. In a forum piece published by the student newspaper, she bemoaned a campus culture in which overachieving students wear insane workloads like a badge of honor, pretending to be fine while academic and personal stresses approach a breaking point. Citing friends who had left school early or stewed on campus alone, she wondered why her university wasn't doing more to get them help. "Many are suffering, and no one's talking about it," she wrote. "Why?"
Amit Drori's Robotic Wooden Animals Are Like A Da Vinci Drawing Brought To Life
The Creators Project: Until recently my knowledge of puppetry began with Punch and Judy and ended with Being John Malkovich. But this all changed when master puppeteer and theatre producer Amit Drori invited me to his latest show Savanna: A Possible Landscape. The production is based on the lives of African animals portrayed by handcrafted wooden robots and, like a steampunk Attenborough, Amit invites the viewer to take a robot safari through this mechanical jungle.
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I found that the article on how the arts have valuable lessons for children to was very accurate.I, personally, am a huge advocate for the arts in schools and that they are just important as the regular math, science, language arts, and history courses. While those core classes teaches a student to be studious, or "educated", intelligent etc. the creative arts have the ability to shape a child's personality, develop his or her's creative sense and imagination, learn how to be a part of something and the importance of an ensemble, working hard at something to be great and that nothing comes over night, etc. The arts should be a necessity in schools, not a budgeting burden.
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I found that the article on how the arts have valuable lessons and ways for for children to learn was very accurate. I, personally, am a huge advocate for the arts in schools and I believe that they are just important as the regular math, science, language arts, and history courses. While those core classes teache a student to be studious, or "educated", intelligent etc. the creative arts have the ability to shape a child's personality, develop his or her's creative sense and imagination, learn how to be a part of something and the importance of an ensemble, work hard at something to be great and that nothing comes over night (process over product) and things like that. In my opinion, the arts should be a necessity in schools, not a budgeting burden.
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