
Arts Integration with English Learners
English Learners force us to be better educators who constantly work to find creative methods to bring equity to education.
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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English Learners force us to be better educators who constantly work to find creative methods to bring equity to education.

Improvisation has applications in our schools.

So we are getting down to the wire, only 4 weeks left of my Arts Immersion To Do List.

Jazz is simply a metaphor for democracy! How you may ask?

Just allowing myself a few hours of making music helped remind me how satisfying art-making and making music can be.

I have mentioned TED Talks before in my blog because I find them to be such an amazing source of inspiration and information.

This week arts immersion, we'll discuss setting your intention, thinking outside of the box, and experiencing dance to make you a better human being.

For my Arts Immersion this week, I decided to prepare to celebrate National Dance Day 2013.

Of all the items on the Arts Immersion to-do list I think the artist date is the most key step to recovery and rediscovery of your playful, creative self.

It’s more of an “arts immersion” to-do list that I believe could serve as an Educator Recovery Program for those of you who may be like to join.

That night I was reminded how incredibly powerful it can be not only to experience live art being performed, how powerful and inspiring it is.

Ideally, when teaching an Arts Integrated lesson, you are looking through lens at the same time for the art and for your other focus content area.
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