Strategies
Love is in the Air: Colors, Lines and Valentines!
Making Valentines with elements of art is a great way to have the students create something they will be intrinsically motivated to share.
Amanda Koonlaba
Amanda Koonlaba, Ed. S. is an educator and educational consultant with over 12 years of experience teaching both visual art and regular education. Her career has been driven by the power of the arts to reach all learners. She is a published author and frequent speaker/presenter at education conferences. Amanda was named the Elementary Art Teacher of the Year for the state of Mississippi in 2016 and received the Arts Integration Service Award from the Mississippi Whole Schools Initiative (Mississippi Arts Commission) in 2015. She holds an Elementary and Middle Childhood Art certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. As a coach for The Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM, Amanda is on a mission to ensure every student in America has access to a high-quality arts-based education. She blogs at partyintheartroom.com.
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iNotice3 Arts Integration Strategy
A great strategy for extending and deepening learning through the arts is the iNotice3 strategy.
Strategies
Are you the FUN teacher or the MEAN teacher?
Are you the fun teacher or the mean teacher? In today's article, we'll look at the traits of both and let you in on what we're talking about.
Educator PD
Arts Integration Strategy Master Class
Our popular Arts Integration Strategy Master Class series is back for 2014 and we have an incredible offering to kick off the New Year.
Resources
Face Your Art Resistance and Find You Can’t Resist
Face Your Art Resistance - Plan a lesson that involves the art form with which you are least comfortable or art form with which you are least comfortable.
Approaches
The 2014 STEAM Conference of the Year is OPEN
his really is the STEAM conference of the year - we have presentations from art, music, classroom and technology educators from all over the globe.
Strategies
A New Perspective On Gaining Respect
I had the opportunity to lead a seminar on gaining respect in the workplace for twenty homeless adults in a culinary and custodial employment program.
Approaches
Using Badges in the Arts Classroom
One of the ways that always proves successful for me is by bringing a little fun to the mix: using badges in the arts classroom!
Resources
The Great Kindness Challenge: Using the Arts to Create a Culture of Compassion
If we really want to create a culture of kindness in our schools and in our world, we need to create a culture of compassion and empathy.
Organization
The Common Core are Just Standards
The Standards aren't the problem. Rather, the curriculum, leadership and professional development of Common Core is at the heart of this issue.
Strategies
Exploiting Chaos – Thriving When You Think You’re Failing
I love the book title Exploiting Chaos because it's so contrarian.
Strategies
Learning SmARTer: Using the Arts to Strengthen Memory and Learning
The arts can be an effective tool to help students with retrieval practice to solidify and maintain the integrity of their learning and strengthen memory.
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