The Brock Art Conference - ART MATTERS

When I was beginning to think about my genius hour question I had heard about the art conference from my visual art teacher at the time. I knew that this signing up would be a perfect opportunity to help me answer my question. I am so happy that I signed up and went, even though it was on a Saturday at 8am it was so worth it. I learned at this wonderful conference that incorporating music in the class is not just singing, playing instruments and musical theory but it is also dance, drama and art. Music is integrated into all of these amazing art forms. I am so excited that I one day get to teach and submerge my students into these subjects. I learned that dance isn't about being a professional ballerina but it is about expressing, answering and interpreting things through the movement of your body, moving to certain music such as native sounds can express your understanding of the struggle they may have gone through in terms of residential schooling. Music can fill the room with live and it can create words in a scene with no lines, it can evoke emotion in a single scene. Music allows students to go beyond traditional pen and paper, it helps students who may not be good at answering questions on a test to find their strengths. It gives them a chance to express themselves and answer questions in a new way. Music can be used in so many wonderful ways, and I would be very surprised if incorporating what I learned in the art conference doesn't work in a classroom to inspire students.