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1. Enriches other content areas

   • Art can be used to enhance other content areas and also boost academic achievement, promote creativity, self-confidence, and school pride. An example would be referencing pictures in history class to further solidify the information given to the students about that specific time period.

2. 3 types of ways to incorporate into curriculum

   • Art as Curriculum: Students develop skills and knowledge in one particular art form. Students begin learning how visual arts developed over time and they begin to analyze work in a variety of media.
   • Arts-Enhanced Curriculum: Acts as a “hook” to engage students in learning content. Used to support other curriculum areas, but there are no objectives in the art form that are explicit.
   • Arts-Integrated Curriculum: Dual learning objectives when engaging in a creative process to explore the connections between an art form and another subject area so there is a greater understanding of both. The teacher must engage in professional development to learn how to connect the arts to the curriculum they teach.

3. Cultural Competency

   • Arts integration enhances diversity and cultural differences through the ways students express their knowledge in artworks. Here, students can choose their own art form that they want to share such as through dance or painting which allows them to have freedom on their own projects. As a result, art integration helps to connect students from different backgrounds since art is relevant and important across all cultures.

4. Critical Thinking Skills

   • Arts-integrated lessons require students to think critically when constructing personal meaning. Thus building the strengths we need to grow as learners.

5. Activates Creativity

   • Creativity is such a large part of a child's education. It is important to allow students to be able to express themselves and share what is going on in their minds. This gives them the opportunity to be innovative and challenge themselves in finding how far their creativity can take them. Students having a creative outlet allows them to express their personalities and in that also finding friends with things in common enhancing their social skills as well.

6. Problem Solving

   • Students are challenged to troubleshoot problems that real-life artists face in their daily lives. Answers to these problems are not found through process of elimination like a multiple choice quiz, instead they must use art and creativity to solve their problems. This simulataneously helps foster critical thinking skills