The message that creative thinking, critical thinking, problem-solving, and reasoning improve due to the arts education being introduced to a academic setting. Perpich includes details about a correlative study that shows a strong relationship between arts education, a positive emotional development that lead to stronger abilities to learn for understanding, and a decrease in disciplinary issues in schools. The article first shows the benefits of the arts and education, then the author goes into examples of schools that are already addressing the extracurricular benefits to student learning. This causes the article to be more reliable because there is proof that their argument is being supported by others. This source contains information on arts education and how it correlates with required learning. This information is just one answer to many, of how extracurricular activities affect academic achievements. Perpich published their Arts Education article in 2016 and used reasonable evidence to support their theory that arts education strongly benefits academic achievements. “Arts Education and Academic Achievement” does answer the question of how extracurricular activities could affect an academic setting.
This proves that arts education improve a student’s ability to understand and learn. Perpich is a high school in Minnesota, that currently are endorsing their students in the arts and academic achievements. Perpich students have the average GPA of 3.26, and 22% of the class graduate with honors, or a 3.6 GPA or higher. This is an unbiased article that supports arts integration in an academic setting. Perpich gives facts and evidence to support their findings, as well as other research studies (besides their own) to prove their evidence is not false. In the article, “Creativity and education: an Australian perspective,” it focuses on how creativity, that usually belong in extracurriculars, could be added to everyday subjects. This author believes that if schools made required learning more creative, it would benefit the students’ academic readiness. Arthur Cropley uses the opinions of his fellow writers to support his claim. He writes, “Creative pedagogy can be applied in all disciplines and with all children (i.e. not just in creative areas and not just with gifted students) and is claimed by various Australian authors to lead to greater motivation and better learning, and reduce boredom, disruptive behaviour and dropping out.” Included in his writing was also a chart that contains the cognitive benefits of creative learning, such as improved questioning skills, problem-solving, exploring alternatives, and recognizing patterns.
All of these benefits would happen if school districts put as much creativity in required classes as they do extracurricular classes. This article in particular uses many subheadings like, “Focus on the Arts, Conflation of Creativity And Special Needs Education, Perceived Incompatibility of Creativity with Rigour, Defining Creativity and Infusing Creativity into Learning.” These are used to structure the article and hit on every perspective in Arthur’s argument. By doing this, the he creates a trustworthy article. The article, published in April 2012, shows the importance of creativity in a school environment which is precisely what extracurricular activities contain. It also gives a different perspective on the need for creativity in schools. An Australian author writes about how creativity, usually found in extracurricular, could be added to an academic setting to improve learning. This article supports the idea that extracurricular mindset in the classroom, could benefit it. Arthur Cropley was the founding editor of High Ability Studies and was on the board of the Creativity Research Journal. Cropley received the Creativity Award of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children in 1997. In 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Latvia. The source, MackinVIA is a database provided by the Prosper School District.
This leads to believe that the source is credible and trustworthy. This article can also be found elsewhere as a book. Arthur Cropley may write a slightly biased article toward creative learning and its benefits, but all evidence founded in this article is supported by facts. McLaughlin, Charlie. ‘Music: integrative education.’ The article, “Music: integrative education,” is conveying the idea that scientific studies indicate that music is essential for maximum brain development. “It seems that the portions of the brain that react to music are also the same areas that are stimulated by language. It has been suggested that the co-processing of musical information, sounds, tones, and rhythms, strengthens a student’s auditory and word-retention skills.” This provides information that supports that music is an important aspect of school, and how it affects the students. Mclaughlin says, “It seems that the portions of the brain that react to music are also the same areas that are stimulated by language. It has been suggested that the co-processing of musical information, sounds, tones, and rhythms, strengthens a student’s auditory and word-retention skills.” The article is separated by scientific facts/theories, and then it uses real-life stories to support its claims. It supports my topic, in the theory, that an extracurricular (music), plays an important role in a student’s academic achievements.
This article, published in December 2011, contains surprising evidence supporting fine arts’ roles in students academics. This does support my research topic because fine arts is a major extracurricular. Charlie McLaughlin is a coordinator for the Technology Education Program at Rhode Island College and the Field Editor for CTE. MackinVIA is a database provided by the Prosper School District. This leads to believe that the source is credible and trustworthy. This article shows the only fact, Charlie finds facts and then backs up his claims with real-world stories. This is a credible article. Raja, Tasneem, et al. “Is Coding the New Literacy?” “Is Coding the New Literacy?” it explores the benefits of teaching students how to write code during their career of school. If these young students are unable to think about how computers solve problems, they don’t even know where to begin on asking a question that needs to be answered. Tasneem Raja exposes the importance of implementing a dose of code into a classroom environment. The author says this is crucial because when the students are 30 they will be capable of retaining enough information to ask the right questions of a programmer. This article first starts out with the benefits of being able to write code, but then it transfers into the importance of teaching code to the young minds of the world. This article held little information to support my argument of ho extracurricular activities helps a student’s academic achievements.
But it did, however, give a different perspective, that if a creative style of learning where to be added to the required learning list, academic achievements would improve. This article, published on June 16, 2014, does not adequately answer the question given. While I am looking for information relating to extracurricular activities and academic achievements, this article talks about the importance of instituting coding programs into schools. Tasneem Raja used to be an editor at Mother Jones. She specializes in web app production, interactive graphics, and user interface design. Mother Jones is a reader-supported news agency that was given the award of, Magazine of the Year. This information is slightly biased when it talks about how coding should be part of every child’s learning. See, Beng Huat, et al. “Arts Education May Be Important, but the Academic Benefits Are Unproven.” The Conversation, The Conversation, 7 Sept. 2018, theconversation.com/arts-education-may-be-important-but-the-academic-benefits-are-unproven-50496. In the article, “Arts Education May Be Important, but the Academic Benefits Are Unproven,” it is said that studies proving extracurricular activities effects on academic achievements, are too inconclusive to create a concrete answer. But if the arts make children feel happy and feel good about themselves, then that is justification in itself. Beng Huat See writes about how playing an instrument benefits creativity, spatial-temporal ability, IQ scores, and reading and language. The importance of extracurricular activities is not whether they benefit required learning, but whether pursuing arts education makes a student happy.
This article starts out with the problem of, “Arts education may be important, but the academic benefits are unproven,” but after that idea is developed more, we are given the subheading, “So what does work?” This is an answer to our question. Since the article is organized like this, it gives us reasons why arts education is important, and how to improve academic achievements. This article was focused on how extracurricular activities benefit academic achievements, which is apparently very little. This is a beneficial resource for my research because it not only answered the question, but it also gave us solutions and an overall perspective. This article, published on November 17, 2015, is a reliable answer for my research, it shows a unique view on extracurriculars, they believe that you should not participate in extracurriculars because of the unsupported theory of it benefitting you’re brain activity, but that you should participate for enjoyment. Beng Huat is a researcher at Durham University, a School of Education. She was brought up as a social scientist and has worked in a variety of social science including health promotion, character education, and developing critical thinking skills. The Conversation is a committed journal that wants to provide their readers with only the most accurate knowledge. Authors are only allowed to write on a subject on which they have proven high understanding and information. Authors must also sign a disclosure statement to support that they will stay credible. This article shows the substantial fact but has a biased opinion that extracurriculars need to be taken for enjoyment.
