"Use Arts Integration to Enhance Common Core" Response

This article depicts the creative side of learning and how teachers can incorporate the arts into Common Core lesson plans. It suggests that, rather than the Common Core be integrated by using the STEM, teachers use the Arts Integration instead. The claim is that it is just as effective just not as prevalently used. The article lists different activities teachers can use to make their classrooms more creative, such as the mirroring game. The most enlightening part of the article is the parallels drawn between the Common Core Standards and the Arts Integration. The article accurately convinces its audience that the  arts can result in the Common Core being more effective.

I believe that arts within the classroom are vital. Since American children go to school to receive a broad (unspecialized) education, I think the trick to a well-educated American is balance. We teach math, english, science, social studies, and even technology courses, so the incorporation of arts is deserving of the same attention. I also believe that the Common Core's implementation of critical thinking could easily translate into creative and artistic learning. The authors of the Common Core simply "forgot" to incorporate it into the curriculum. The simple solution to the loss of arts in the schools is to have it written into the Common Core, so teachers are not fearful to administer it with their students.