Discuss the importance of planning instruction that promotes a range of communication strategies between student-teacher and student-student that encourage student participation, and TPE 1.7 relates to the importance of incorporating the Visual and Performing Arts into the classroom curriculum. How do these to TPEs set the stage for an active and participative environment where children are encouraged to communicate orally and in other modalities that might include the visual and performing arts. What activities can be woven into a class unit that might encourage poetry, painting, performing as in a readers theater or role play, or in a musical way. Does that charge seem too difficult or can you determine ways to be comfortable and encouraging with the charge?
