This partnership benefits Windmill by providing access to early childhood education research along with teaching and learning opportunities (39). This partnership requires de Lissa to investigate young children’s learning in and through the arts (39). The project began from Windmill Director’s interest in children’s first experience of theater (39). She wanted to discover the elements that make a memorable and engaging first performance experience for very young children (39). Three visiting artists worked in early childhood centers in their final year of ECE, and they observed the children’s responses and reported to Windmill (39). This project focused on dance, music and visual arts (39). These art forms provide a special opportunity to understand young children’s responses and interactions as they begin to develop spoken language (39). Locally based artists were matched into three interested early childhood centers (39). The artists were not supposed to lead workshops, but to play with ideas and create dance, music, and visual arts …show more content…
Students found it easy to learn from the artists when they expressed different forms of art in an interesting and intriguing way and allowing students to participate in art-related activities. This study allowed students to think creatively, learn simple lessons, practice various learning styles, and use multiple bits of intelligence. Art-based learning helps students to learn visually by watching what the artist does, learn in an auditory form by listening to instructions given by the artist, and learn kinesthetically by practicing what the artist does. Most of the time in schools, teachers focus on one type of learning throughout their lessons while the artists in this experiment helped students to learn in multiple forms. The lessons given by these artists intrigued the students and they were also able to retain and repeat the information learned by these artists. This study can benefit any teacher, not just art teachers. If teachers started doing lessons that were intriguing to students that involved more learning styles, more students would be able to better enjoy lessons and successfully learn the information because it is given in different ways that can benefit students of any learning