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Tell Me a Story: A Guide to Interactive Storytelling
How to keep the story interesting and keep the students interested during storytelling?
Deirdre Moore
Deirdre is a teaching artist and AI coach in the San Diego public schools dedicated to helping classroom teachers make arts an integral part of their teaching. Deirdre has an MEd in Arts Integration and over twenty years of classroom and performing arts teaching experience. Email Deirdre.
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Teachers dislike students who exhibit curiosity and creative thinking even though teachers acknowledge creativity as an important educational goal.
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The Beauty of Co-Creation
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Art Making: Concentration with Imagination
Art Making - As I have shared on a number of occasions, visual art is not my forte but I am loving having the opportunity to teach art for art’s sake.
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Yes, and: Teaching Students to Improvise
Yes, and” is a great way to get started teaching students about acceptance of others’ ideas and building on those ideas.
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Arts: The Great Unifier
I was reminded how important the arts are to celebrations and how lucky I am to be a part of a family that values and participates in the arts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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