Imani Consulting also offers other services in the Performing Arts including special events. NEED/PURPOSE
The need for the arts across school curriculums in before and after school programs as well as summer programs goes along with everything parents, administrators, educators and communities want for our children to grow and develop in terms of academic achievement, social and emotional developm
ent. Active involvement in the arts is linked with increases in math, reading, cognitive, critical thinking and verbal skills. Learning through the arts also improves motivation, concentration, confidence and teamwork. With increases in student enrollment in after school programs across the country, an estimated 8.4 million according to Afterschool Alliance (2009). Therefore the need for programs with a well-rounded academic curriculum that includes arts education is important especially to students who would otherwise have little to no exposure to the arts, particularly from a historical perspective. Week 1-2: Tradition of African American Spirituals
Week 3: Influence of Traditional Spirituals and Hymns on Gospel Music and the Civil Rights Movement
Week 4-5: The Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance
Week 6-7: Influence of the Harlem Renaissance on Contemporary Culture and Music including R&B, Pop, and Hip Hop
Objectives
• Students will have direct involvement with the arts and artists
• Extended engagement for students in the artistic process
• Encourage self-directed learning
• Promotion of complexity in the learning experience
• To broaden the student’s outlook in personal and academic ways
• Contributes to basic reading comprehension and achievement motivation through feelings of competence and engagement
• To increase reading skills, language development, and writing skills as well as general academic skills
• With the implementation of multiple arts such as music, drama, dance, and visual arts encourage engagement and strengthen fundamental cognitive capacities as spatial reasoning, problem solving, and creative thinking.
• Increased motivation, including active engagement, disciplined and sustained attention and focus, persistence and risk taking.
• Increased attendance and interest in pursuing education
• Promote growth in self-confidence, self-control, self-identity, conflict resolutions, collaboration, empathy, social tolerance, and attention to moral development
Contributions of each Area of the Arts
• Music: important impacts on brain functions related to spatial reasoning and spatial temporal reasoning, or relations of ideas and objects in space and time. This includes problem solving, mathematics, and creative scientific process
• 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 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. TEACHING APPROACH
Arts Integration
TEACHING METHODS
• Cooperative Learning
• Discovery Learning
• Multimedia Instruction
• Problem-Solving
Imani Consulting Services also offers bereavement services to provide comfort and support to families in their time of grief. Services include bereavement consulting to individuals and families, vocal performance, dance, spoken word, poetry readings, and culinary arts, as well tutoring for high school and college students in psychology.
