Annotated Bibliography For Critical Analysis

Annotated Bibliography for Critical Analysis Paper The issue relating to schools I choose to write my critical analysis paper on is, how important integrating the arts in the classroom is in order to help increase student learning outcomes. This does not specifically include having art offered as a course, but how the arts can help students of all ages and backgrounds fully understand common subjects such as: math, science, social studies, literature, or a more concentrated course. This is an important topic that needs to be addressed because while attending school I felt lost and confused during class and felt embarrassed to raise my hand to have the teacher clarify. As a future teacher, my hope is to find a more effective way for the students

(2002). How arts integration supports student learning: Students shed light on the connections. Chicago, IL: Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE). Retrieved from https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0f8e/b783b2ed081237b298ba81bbcff8e0f69aac.pdf

This article was found on google scholar written by Karen DeMoss with the help of Terry Morris. DeMoss graduated with her Ph. D. from the University of Chicago and has worked for many well-known colleges in New York City. She has written countless books regarding different research topics and has been cited in many peer-reviewed academic articles, making this resource reliable. Her evaluation in this primary source is a collection of data and analysis of students showing how arts integration affected them. The purpose of this text was to show data results done on students about the relevance of art integration. According to the research, DeMoss (2002) found an increase in student achievement when art was incorporated into the learning process. Thirty students that were gathered from many classes were selected to help discover the processes and outcomes related to arts integration. The students came from three categories high, medium, and low achievers. She reported, “Even though we observed differences in levels of arts integration across classrooms, students from all achievement levels displayed significant increases in their ability to analytically assess their own learning following arts-integrated units”

Her expertise is in the arts, regarding primary education, teacher education, and pre-school education so this makes her a reliable source. This is a secondary source in which the author is commenting on research that has already been conducted. May (2013), describes in her peer-reviewed article that, it can be hard and overwhelming for teachers to integrate arts into their classrooms. She quotes, “It requires a great deal of time, necessitates collaboration with other teachers, and can unfortunately promote bias of one subject over another” (May, 2013, pg. 2). May (2013), believes it can offer many benefits to both teachers and students. The arts can also have a positive social impact on students, by increasing their academic success and enhancing their perspectives. The information in this article can be very helpful in figuring out why it is important to integrate arts in schools. Also, the findings can be helpful to figure out why it is hard for teachers to use the arts in the classroom. The article is relevant to my topic in dealing with the arts integration, because May describes a lot of the struggle teachers face with trying to integrate certain arts into their classroom. In her article, What’s the problem?, she talks about the reasons teachers fail to successfully integrate the arts into their curriculum. She concluded that, it mostly