Extra-Curricular Activities 2
Art as an elective keeps students attentive
Learning with arts has been combined with greater student achievement, but the reasoning of the arts may support related increase in students is undocumented. Thirty students in ten classes in veteran teacher artist partnerships were selected to help explore the processes and outcomes associated with arts-integrated learning units verses learning processes and outcomes in comparable non-arts units. The student sample evenly represented comparatively high, medium, and low achievers. Students who do art, do better in school, are more engaged, they are more attentive, they have better attendance, and their achievements get stronger because the arts draw them in and give them a creative sense in learning.
Resources: http://www.artseveryday.org/uploadedFiles/Cultural_Organizations/How%20Arts%20Integration%20Supports%20Student%20Learning.pdf.
http://www.keepartsinschools.org/
Extracurricular activities help students....
Time during non-school hours, for students have seemed to be the cause of their academic achievement. Studies have found that young adults who frequently participate in extracurricular activities have higher chances of success than those who don't. In a research of 1,259 mostly white adolescents, found that 10th grade presence in team sports, school leadership or school spirit activities, school clubs, and performing arts were all separately related to having a higher 12th grade GPA, after regulating students gender, verbal and math ability, and parental education. The relationship between participation in activities in tenth grade and achievement outcomes in math and science in twelfth grade in a national sample, were examined. They found that students who participate in greater levels of structured activities and kids who spend longer time by themselves were both singly related with higher levels of success in math and science in the 12th grade.
resources: http://www.childtrends.org/what_works/youth_development/education/t5bestbets6.asp
http://www.googobits.com/articles/436-the-importance-of-extracurricular-activities-in-a-students-life.html
