Reflection # 1

Some things I learned so far: The importance of teaching and encouraging creative problem solving, why it is important to integrate art into you class. The difference =between teaching with the arts, in the arts and through the arts to name a few. Reading this chapter brought up some of the importance of being creative. The relation to creativity and work place and solving problems with our economy. I had never thought of how important creativity is to our society. Once it was brought to my attention, it made perfect sense, we need to creative problem solving at one time or another in all occupations. 

      I was surprised by the account of art based schools, it is amazing that they can show through these schools the success of integrating art into the classroom, I'm personally not an artsy person and do feel uncomfortable doing the activities in our class, yet I still think a class like the ones we read about would have been fun and beneficial even for me. I hope to learn more ways to integrate art into my own classroom and become comfortable enough to be able to implement what I've learned in my class. So far I really enjoy our class and have a completely new view on the arts.