Cikgu Isk: TSL- Art in Education

Art in education refers to learning, instruction and programming based upon the visual and tangible arts. Art education includes performing arts like dance, music, theater, and visual arts like drawing, painting, sculpture, and design works. Latest trends also include photography, video, film, design and computer in the part of art in education. In art education, instruction is through standards-based, sequential approach by a qualified instructor as part of the core curriculum. Art in education usually used by English teacher in the classroom. This is because art in education can attract the students’ attention to learn. English subject is considered as a dry and dull subject. So, English teachers have to find many interventions in order to make this subject interesting so that the students will like this subject. There are three main aspect in art in education that are music, visual and also movement.

For music, the teacher will use the medium such as song, musical instruments and others in classroom. Some students can learn best using this musical approach. The activity that can be adopt for music aspect is, teacher can have activity like singing in the classroom. Teacher should ask the students to each and everyone of them to sing. Teacher will show the lyrics using projector on screen. Then teacher will ask the students to stand up and sing. By using this singing activity, students can learn a lot of things. For example students can learn vocabulary. This is because there are certain unfamiliar English words in the lyrics of the song. So students will automatically learn the meaning of these words. Beside vocabulary, students also can learn grammar. Grammar also included in the lyrics of the song. For example, Old McDonald had a farm. Teacher can teach them present tense and past tense using this lyrics. Teacher can explain to them about the word “had” is actually comes from the original word of has. Teacher will explain to them that we use the word had because it was already done in the past. The other example of musical aspect is choir singing. Teacher will ask all the students to gather in a choir team position and teacher will do non verbal movement as to conduct the choir singing. Beside, the other example is teacher can use musical instruments inside the classroom such as guitar, piano and others during teaching and learning session. Most of the teacher will usually use guitar. This is because guitar is easy to bring and most of their students are familiar with guitar. Using musical instrument is also important because students will be attracted with this musical instruments. So, they will feel eager to study.

For the aspect of movement, teacher can adapt this aspect in classroom by conducting many activities such as dancing, games that involve movement and others. For example the game of sit and stand. This is a game that i used to play with Year 1 pupils during my School Based Experienced (SBE) in Sekolah Kebangsaan Padang Besar Utara.This game is very simple. The teacher will ask the students to stand when the teacher say King and the students will sit down when the teacher say rest. This game is very important because firstly, it triggers students to think logically as they will think that the action they should take in several activity. They should stand if the King walk in front of them in the term of respect. The students also should sit when they rest. The other importance of this activity is students will improve their brain and body coordination. This is because they have to think about what they should do after their teacher said the keyword that are King or rest. While they are thinking, they also have to do an action at the same time that is standing or sitting. The other activity involve moving aspect is dancing. Teacher can turn on the song and ask the students to dance. Before dancing, teacher must teach them the steps that they should do during the dance. Teaching this step also can improve the coordination of listening, body and also brain. This is because the students have to carefully hear the music and then they have to think about the movement that should they make and also they have to do the movement.

The third aspect of art in education is visual. Visual learning happen when teacher show the students the picture or something else in the purpose of teaching and learning. The adaptation of this aspect is the teacher can use the flash cards as the teaching aids in the classroom. This flash cards can help students understanding the lesson. For example, the teacher teach the students about occupation. Teacher will give examples of occupations that exist in this world by using flash cards. For example teachers show the picture of doctor, police, fireman and others. By using this flashcard, students can understand better on what is doctor, police and all other occupations. The other adaptation that can be used except the flash cards is realia. Realia is the real objects bring in the classroom and use the object as teaching aids. Teacher will use the realia in other to help students to understand the lesson. Realia is the best example of activity that can be done in the aspect of visual. This is because by using realia, the students can know the real shape of certain things. Beside knowing the shape, the students also can feel the objects by touching it using their hands. For example, teacher want to conduct the lesson of nouns. Teacher choose the topic of fruits. Teacher can bring rambutan into the classroom. So, the students will see the real shape of the rambutan. Students also can feel the shape of rambutan that are hairy by touching it using their hands.

As a conclusion, I can say that art of education is very important in the teaching and learning world nowadays. This is because students has their own way of understanding the lesson. By using art in education, students will be able to understand the lesson. Beside, art in education also can attract the students’ attention to study. This is because they will feel attracted with the activities that involved in the all aspects of art in education. So, the art in education is very important to produce more successful generation.