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How to Build Your STEAM Skills through Online Learning
Online learning enhancements, though, you can start and stop and re-watch whatever portions you need to really master the skills ahead of leaping in.
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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Strategies
Typography and Elements of Design
By arming students with an awareness of how typography can affect an audience, students can create effective presentations and become adept communicators.
Assessment
10+ Lifehacks for the Arts Teacher Evaluation
As we approach mid-year, teacher evaluations are in full swing for many educators.
Strategies
Cutting the Cord: Transitioning to Common Core
Support the Common Core reading objectives with this quick and easy strategy for reading informational text; and still have time for preparing performances.
Educator PD
Resolve to Set Goals that Matter
Goals are things that we can set for ourselves that propel our motion towards progress forward.
Educator PD
Bringing History into the Classroom
Acess to history archives, video, documents, and other tangible items that will get your history lessons out of the textbooks into students' imaginations.
Resources
Time: A “Four Letter Word” in Education
Time is the only thing that allows things to be done well.
Curriculum
Arts Integration and STEAM Conference
Annual Connectivity STEAM Conference and this year's focus will be all about Arts Integration, STEAM and the Common Core.
Assessment
EdCloset Best of 2013: Integrated PARCC Assessment Rubric
PARCC draft writing rubric for grades 4-5. The writing standards and rubrics provide all of us with such a natural way to weave into Common Core as ...
Curriculum
Informational Arts Lesson Seed
In this high school lesson, we're combining visual art, reading and music to focus on informational text analysis of non-traditional texts.
Strategies
How to Catch a Shark – Getting Your Students To Use Descriptive and Specific Language
At every opportunity ask students to dig deeper into their observations and rationales by using descriptive and specific language.
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