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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.
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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Time: A “Four Letter Word” in Education
Time is the only thing that allows things to be done well.
Strategies
Structuring Dance
It’s all about structure. Here are a few pointers that may help you with structuring dance, a piece based on a story or a process.
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Designing a Difference
Learn to work with others to create real change, however small, in the world.
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Getting Serious about Having Fun
Teaching and learning are very serious business but because they are so important, we educators must get serious about having fun.
Strategies
BEST: An Integrated Teaching of the Elements of Dance
By looking at each of those 4 dance elements, you may find some natural points of integration with core content.
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Teaching Students to Know How they Know: Metacognition through the Arts
Using the arts to support and illuminate metacognition for students empowers them to pursue a lifetime of deep and meaningful learning.
Organization
Planning for Success
The best way to have a successful Arts Integration lesson is to be over-prepared so you can relax and enjoy the process of planning for success.
Organization
Mantras for Sanity
"Baby steps” combined with “keep it simple” have proved to be useful mantras when my enthusiasm overrides my reason and human limitations.
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Making SMART Goals to Strive for Success
We're getting ready to start a new school year and it's time to start thinking of new SMART goals we intend to accomplish this year.
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Arts Integration, The Antidote to Creative Paralysis: Arts Immersion To-Do List Week 9
The arts can allow for exploration of the content areas and the content areas can provide an antidote for the debilitating condition of creative paralysis.
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