Webinar- Integration of Arts in Curriculum through Experiential Learning

-Link between Learning Outcomes and activity of Arts

Integration of Arts in curriculum is a pedagogy that integrates visual and performing arts as a route to  learning. Its aim is to increase knowledge of a general subject area with synchronic live observations as well as to enrich the  understanding and appreciation of visual and performing arts.

As part of CBSE’s initiative to impart online training to teachers to instill new knowledge & skills as per demand to keep teachers updated, to enable them to teach more effectively and lead improved learning outcomes, an interactive session on Integration Of Arts in Curriculum through Experiential Learning was conducted by the School Principal Ms. Anuradha Handa. Addressing a large virtual audience of teachers across schools pan India, she reiterated the importance of linking arts with the scholastic curriculum, and infusing them in all areas of learning.

Her presentation began with a quiz on breath-taking views of art used in Hindi cinema. This instantaneously invoked the curious minds of all teachers to reflect  on how those had a lasting impression about the sense of aesthetics as well as correlation.This was followed by training of teachers on the usage of the creative medium to make lessons interesting and appealing to the dynamic learner.

She also gave a glimpse of the school’s own creative programme -  ICLP (Integrated Creative Learning Programme) that allows students to inadvertently learn  principles of Science, Mathematics and Languages conveyed through the creative medium of Arts.The session was an eye opener for many resorting to conventional pedagogy. A Pandora’s box was  open to all that could absorb the alternatives available to impart lessons,  so that children are able to integrate and retain what they  learn through Arts and with the Arts.