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- Volume 30
- Issue 4
- Publication Date: Fall 2007
Ways of Knowing: Exploring Artistic Representation of Concepts
Timothy J. Duggan
Teachers have the ability to give students opportunities to produce alternative, artistic responses to concepts they learn in school. Such opportunities may be used to foster specific talents and to provide expanded perspectives for thinking about schoolwork. When a student writes a poem for a character in an assigned story, creates a drawing to illustrate an event in history, or writes a skit to clarify a scientific idea, the classroom becomes a more interesting space, and students think in new ways. For gifted children, such opportunities can mean the difference between an enriched, challenging experience and just another dull day in class. Differentiated instruction can provide the context for artistic representations of knowledge that show many ways of knowing and engage gifted students in meaningful learning construction.
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