Teaching In, Through, With and About the Arts

I have been amazed how much I just really didn't know about education and the arts until I participated in this class and read the assigned chapters so far in the text. I don't really understand why the arts are not more implemented currently in curriculum in edcation. Its surprizing to me how much teaching in, through, with and about the arts can make a difference in many aspects of students' education. There has been so much research on how much it can help their test scores improve dramactically, inspite of difficult personal circumstances. It also has been shown to improve social and other situations. I am excited to be learning these beneficial art activities to implement in my future classrooms. I feel like every students needs to have the opportunity to learn with and through arts and that by educating us as future teachers, this will help us implement arts into our curriculum and pedagogy.