Stephanie De La Cruz Diaz’s Profile

This class is an introduction to art principles, practices and materials that are appropriate for integrating creative arts–visual arts and performing arts–into the elementary school curriculum. Through reading, writing, and hands-on projects, teacher education students will experience and discover the intellectual and emotional joy of creativity and develop effective strategies for integrating the creative arts within a 1-6 grade curriculum to students with diverse cultural backgrounds.

This class is an introduction to art principles, practices and materials that are appropriate for integrating creative arts–visual arts and performing arts–into the elementary school curriculum. Through reading, writing, and hands-on projects, teacher education students will experience and discover the intellectual and emotional joy of creativity and develop effective strategies for integrating the creative arts within a 1-6 grade curriculum to students with diverse cultural backgrounds.