Integrating Art and Spanish a research study of cross-discipline integration

Deborah Kling, Ed.DKathryn G. Zimmer, Ed.D.

Stacey Groshart

cross-discipline integration will serve to…

create and cultivate interconnections

stimulate global awareness

help students make links between disciplines which helps to construct and connect their own learning

achieve high academic standards

explore ways that students might realize the diversity of the population and environment

help students acquire and integrate new knowledge

They compared National Standards in Art and World Language …

then modified class schedules by blocking the time into one longer class period

…enlisted the help of Board of Ed., administrators and community…

BENEFITS STUDENTS AND TEACHERS BY…

reducing interruptions reducing level of stress for students

and teachers longer time frame to apply knowledge longer time to demonstrate and

develop skills and behaviors teachers could nurture relationships

with students more time for group activities,

processing and reflection

larger proportions of student continued to upper level Spanish and upper level Art compared to the traditional classes

higher achievement in Art, Spanish, Public Speaking classes, school wide art shows

students observed positive collaboration between adult teachers

no D’s or F’s

RESULTS

IN ANOTHER RELATED RESEARCH ARTICLE

Effective Strategies for Mastering Spanish in Grades 9-12 Julieta Goode 2007 cooperative learning

groups was the most effective way to increase success

the finished product

of the group was of higher quality than individual projects

students were

able to practice daily

students encouraged each other to strive harder