This is why after school drama classes are so important:
Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development (Deasy, 2002) illustrated how the arts work to broaden students’ social and academic skills. This compendium summarizes and discusses 62 research studies, conducted in a variety of settings and methodologies.
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Special populations: arts activities associated with outcomes related to writing
and reading skills, oral language skills, and sustained attention and focus.
Arts activities had special value to English Language learners, low SES
students, special education, and students who responded to different learning
strategies.
Differentiated groups: the studies in Critical Links identify no fewer the 84
separately distinguishable, valid effects of the arts when differentiated among
groups of children who benefit, from children at risk to all children.
Literacy Skill development: the arts pay off greatly in the areas of reading
skills, language development, and writing skills, as well as general academic
skills.
Fundamental Thinking Skills and Capacities: Learning in individual art forms,
as well as in multiple arts experiences engages and strengthens such
fundamental cognitive capacities as spatial reasoning, conditional reasoning,
problem solving and creative thinking.
Motivation to Learn: Learning in the arts nurtures motivation, including active
engagement, disciplined and sustained attention, persistence and risk taking.
It also increases attendance and interest in pursuing education.
Effective Social Behaviour: Learning in certain arts activities promotes student
growth in self-confidence, self-control, self-identity, conflict resolutions,
collaboration, empathy, and social tolerance, and attention to moral
development.
Specific contributions of each of the arts: many of the studies looked at music
and classroom drama with their predictable effects on literacy and math; fewer
looked at dance and visual arts. Highlights include:
Music: important impacts on brain functions related to spatial
reasoning and spatial-temporal reasoning, or the relations of ideas and
objects in space in time. This includes problem solving, mathematics,
and creative scientific processes.
Drama: shows consistent effects on narrative understanding as well as
on identifying characters and the motivations, reading and writing
skills and interpersonal skills, collaboration and conflict resolution.
Dance: contributes to self-confidence, persistence, social tolerance,
and appreciation of individual and group social development;
indirectly also to originality, fluency, flexibility, and creative thinking.
Visual Arts: increases reading readiness in preschoolers, drawing helps
communication and writing, contributes to science, history, and
reading skills.
Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development (Deasy, 2002) illustrated how the arts work to broaden students’ social and academic skills. This compendium summarizes and discusses 62 research studies, conducted in a variety of settings and methodologies.
The arts and children at risk: the arts contribute to basic reading comprehension and achievement motivation through nurturing feelings of competence and engagement, especially for economically disadvantaged children. These children also showed increased attendance and fewer discipline referrals.
Special populations: arts activities associated with outcomes related to writing
and reading skills, oral language skills, and sustained attention and focus.
Arts activities had special value to English Language learners, low SES
students, special education, and students who responded to different learning
strategies.
Differentiated groups: the studies in Critical Links identify no fewer the 84
separately distinguishable, valid effects of the arts when differentiated among
groups of children who benefit, from children at risk to all children.
Literacy Skill development: the arts pay off greatly in the areas of reading
skills, language development, and writing skills, as well as general academic
skills.
Fundamental Thinking Skills and Capacities: Learning in individual art forms,
as well as in multiple arts experiences engages and strengthens such
fundamental cognitive capacities as spatial reasoning, conditional reasoning,
problem solving and creative thinking.
Motivation to Learn: Learning in the arts nurtures motivation, including active
engagement, disciplined and sustained attention, persistence and risk taking.
It also increases attendance and interest in pursuing education.
Effective Social Behaviour: Learning in certain arts activities promotes student
growth in self-confidence, self-control, self-identity, conflict resolutions,
collaboration, empathy, and social tolerance, and attention to moral
development.
Specific contributions of each of the arts: many of the studies looked at music
and classroom drama with their predictable effects on literacy and math; fewer
looked at dance and visual arts. Highlights include:
Music: important impacts on brain functions related to spatial
reasoning and spatial-temporal reasoning, or the relations of ideas and
objects in space in time. This includes problem solving, mathematics,
and creative scientific processes.
Drama: shows consistent effects on narrative understanding as well as
on identifying characters and the motivations, reading and writing
skills and interpersonal skills, collaboration and conflict resolution.
Dance: contributes to self-confidence, persistence, social tolerance,
and appreciation of individual and group social development;
indirectly also to originality, fluency, flexibility, and creative thinking.
Visual Arts: increases reading readiness in preschoolers, drawing helps
communication and writing, contributes to science, history, and
reading skills.
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