Elements of Form

At the center of the Integration of Abilities philosphy was the exploration of what Baker called the Elements of Form. The Elements of Form were line, shape, texture, color, movement, sound, light, and space. Baker saw it necessary to incorporate the observation with, and use of, senses in order to learn and create. This style of sensory learning became a hallmark for the Baylor and Trinity children's theater and eventually Jearnine Wagner's Learning About Learning educational foundation. Wagner and Baker's wife Kitty wrote the foundational text for this creative process with children which was called A Place for Ideas: Our Theater. Baker would later write about its use in a K-12 learning environment in Making Sense with the Five Senses which reflected on a program at the Waelder Independent School District in the 1990s.