Specials
Fine Arts
Education in the Fine Arts is essential to developing the whole child. Summit Academy schools offer a variety of fine arts classes and extended learning opportunities, including visual art, media arts, music, and drama/theater. Aligned with Ohio’s Fine Arts content standards and model curriculum, these fine arts opportunities address each of the following Learning Domains:
- Foundational Knowledge and Skills: Instruction in the arts enhances the learning of literacy, numeracy and technology.
- 2. Well Rounded Content: Instruction in the arts expands students’ understanding of the world around them.
- 3. Leadership and Reasoning: Instruction in the arts fosters design thinking, creativity and problem solving.
Instruction in visual and performing arts allows students to develop the creative imagination, skills, and the dispositions that students need to become critical thinkers, effective communicators, and life-long learners. Art classes give opportunities for our students to express themselves in healthy, creative ways. It is a wonderful experience for any child to make a work of art and feel proud of creating it. Painting, drawing, collaging, etc., are positive ways to learn to identify and express strong emotions. Students are taught to analyze, appreciate, and give honest feedback to one another through structured critique of one another’s work. Similarly, music class and theater performances encourage focus and teamwork as students work together to produce musical or stage performances. Just like our other programs at Summit Academy, fine arts classes are taught in a therapeutic way to support our students’ social, emotional, and cognitive needs.
Physical Education
Physical education teaches students the importance and value of a physically active lifestyle. There are a variety of benefits gained through physical education. Personal health, social skills, self-esteem, motor skills, and knowledge base are areas that can be positively impacted. Summit Academy physical education classes align to Ohio’s Learning Standards for Physical Education. This helps to ensure that all of our students develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions to live a physically active, healthful lifestyle. Students engage in a wide variety of skills, activities, and sports, with the goal of fostering enthusiasm for physical activity. It is hoped that this will be the foundation for life-long enjoyment of physical games, sports, and other physically healthy activities. Physical education classes in Summit Academy schools are also taught in a therapeutic way to support our students’ social, emotional, and cognitive needs, with physical adaptations being provided as necessary to allow students with disabilities the opportunity to maximize their strengths, compensate for any physical limitations, and participate fully.
