WGU C105 Visual and Performing Arts questions
with verified answers
accommodation Ans✓✓✓-(Piaget)
person creates new or modifies old schemas
thinking is adjusted based on new information
Acting skills Ans✓✓✓-(integrating drama) taking roles, pretending, improvising
Aesthetic Learning Environment (drama) Ans✓✓✓-open space
basic materials (Scarves, hats, paper, socks)
teacher who is always ready to think of "what if" and do "let's pretend"
Aesthetic Learning Environment (visual art) Ans✓✓✓-create opportunities to
respond to color, texture, line, and shape
each teacher creates a unique classroom canvas
Clean
Color schemes need to complement one another.
Light should be soft, not glaring white, to relax and make learning pleasant.
Storage areas are needed to organize tools and materials.
Framed art, live plants, music, pleasant smells, fresh air, and art displays
Aesthetic orienting Ans✓✓✓-(Best Teaching Practices for Arts Integration)
Teachers slow it down and teach students to use all their senses to understand,
especially observing carefully to find evidence to ground interpretations
,AI Level 1- with Ans✓✓✓-experiment with a few arts strategies in an arts area of
most comfort and interest
Daily arts routines like Art Print Discussions or Poem a Day
set up arts-based centers and stations for independent follow-up work by
students
AI Level 2- about & in Ans✓✓✓-plan lessons that include teaching about arts
content and skills that naturally connect to established units, often related to
science and social studies. Songs, dances, music, and art from historical periods
and different cultures are frequently the first kinds of arts content classroom
teachers use
AI Level 3- through Ans✓✓✓-involves creating an aesthetic school and classroom
environment in which substantial content units are taught using the arts as both
learning tools and unit centers
Apply-practice-rehearse Ans✓✓✓-(Best Teaching Practices for Arts Integration)
Teachers coach students as they practice using specific feedback that produces
higher quality work.
Art Integration Ladder Ans✓✓✓-teaching with, about, in, and through the arts to
conceptualize levels or degrees of meaningful integration
art integration- academic achivement Ans✓✓✓-arts involved students score
higher than other students
greater arts involvement yields higher test scores
academic achievement builds over time
arts experiences especially benefit "undereducated" students
, art integration- cognitive effects Ans✓✓✓-Arts experiences engage and
strengthen higher order thinking.
Critical thinking is developed through the arts.
Creativity as a "capacity for learning" is expanded
Spatial reasoning, organization, planning, self-direction, and self-assessment
improve
art integration- diverse learners Ans✓✓✓-Arts-based teaching engages a wide
range of learners
Arts-based teaching and learning "opens avenues."
Significant relationships and improvements in reading, writing, and math were
found.
art integration- learning environment Ans✓✓✓-The arts enhance learning by
creating "strong school ecologies."
The arts promote a greater spirit of cooperation and participation
art integration- literacy and math effects Ans✓✓✓-Arts instruction complements
basic reading instruction
The arts offer additional ways to understand and represent ideas and feelings.
Increased communication leads to other effects.
Music instruction develops math-related skills
art integration- motivational/affective effects Ans✓✓✓-Self-esteem, flexibility,
and willingness to take risks, experiment, and tolerate uncertainty increases
with verified answers
accommodation Ans✓✓✓-(Piaget)
person creates new or modifies old schemas
thinking is adjusted based on new information
Acting skills Ans✓✓✓-(integrating drama) taking roles, pretending, improvising
Aesthetic Learning Environment (drama) Ans✓✓✓-open space
basic materials (Scarves, hats, paper, socks)
teacher who is always ready to think of "what if" and do "let's pretend"
Aesthetic Learning Environment (visual art) Ans✓✓✓-create opportunities to
respond to color, texture, line, and shape
each teacher creates a unique classroom canvas
Clean
Color schemes need to complement one another.
Light should be soft, not glaring white, to relax and make learning pleasant.
Storage areas are needed to organize tools and materials.
Framed art, live plants, music, pleasant smells, fresh air, and art displays
Aesthetic orienting Ans✓✓✓-(Best Teaching Practices for Arts Integration)
Teachers slow it down and teach students to use all their senses to understand,
especially observing carefully to find evidence to ground interpretations
,AI Level 1- with Ans✓✓✓-experiment with a few arts strategies in an arts area of
most comfort and interest
Daily arts routines like Art Print Discussions or Poem a Day
set up arts-based centers and stations for independent follow-up work by
students
AI Level 2- about & in Ans✓✓✓-plan lessons that include teaching about arts
content and skills that naturally connect to established units, often related to
science and social studies. Songs, dances, music, and art from historical periods
and different cultures are frequently the first kinds of arts content classroom
teachers use
AI Level 3- through Ans✓✓✓-involves creating an aesthetic school and classroom
environment in which substantial content units are taught using the arts as both
learning tools and unit centers
Apply-practice-rehearse Ans✓✓✓-(Best Teaching Practices for Arts Integration)
Teachers coach students as they practice using specific feedback that produces
higher quality work.
Art Integration Ladder Ans✓✓✓-teaching with, about, in, and through the arts to
conceptualize levels or degrees of meaningful integration
art integration- academic achivement Ans✓✓✓-arts involved students score
higher than other students
greater arts involvement yields higher test scores
academic achievement builds over time
arts experiences especially benefit "undereducated" students
, art integration- cognitive effects Ans✓✓✓-Arts experiences engage and
strengthen higher order thinking.
Critical thinking is developed through the arts.
Creativity as a "capacity for learning" is expanded
Spatial reasoning, organization, planning, self-direction, and self-assessment
improve
art integration- diverse learners Ans✓✓✓-Arts-based teaching engages a wide
range of learners
Arts-based teaching and learning "opens avenues."
Significant relationships and improvements in reading, writing, and math were
found.
art integration- learning environment Ans✓✓✓-The arts enhance learning by
creating "strong school ecologies."
The arts promote a greater spirit of cooperation and participation
art integration- literacy and math effects Ans✓✓✓-Arts instruction complements
basic reading instruction
The arts offer additional ways to understand and represent ideas and feelings.
Increased communication leads to other effects.
Music instruction develops math-related skills
art integration- motivational/affective effects Ans✓✓✓-Self-esteem, flexibility,
and willingness to take risks, experiment, and tolerate uncertainty increases
