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Arts Integration: A Way to Reach All Learners
Integrating the arts into my teaching was a powerful and effective way to reach all learners, especially those who were not successful.
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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Using the Arts to Build Empathy, the Ultimate 21st Century Skill
Without empathy any one of those skills would be nearly, if not entirely, impossible to attain.
Educator PD
Gut Instinct: Go with It! Arts and the Second Brain
When you learn something that you find fascinating, what is your first gut instinct?
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Tweet Me a Story
If you are looking for new ways to inspire & facilitate the sharing of writing in your classes, challenge students to tweet you a story through Twitter!
Approaches
Samsa and Seuss: Analyzing Literature through Character Correspondence
What a fantastic tool character correspondence would be to use in the classroom for analyzing literature, writing and performing.
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The Art of Baseball
By looking at the theater of baseball we might make baseball more accessible to arts lovers and help some sports fans find a way to connect to the arts.
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Lifelong Learners: The Ultimate Goal
Educators have a responsibility to keep the flame of curiosity alive so our students will be lifelong learners equipped to handle whatever comes their way.
Strategies
Teaching Nonfiction Content Through the Art of Story
Stories are an effective teaching tool for nonfiction content because they help make new concepts more personal, more memorable, more meaningful.
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Fun? In School?!
While engaging in the serious work of education, yourself permission to indulge in some art-making with the pure intention of just having some serious fun!
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Don’t Forget to Ask: Guiding Reflection to Deepen Learning
While I believe that having an arts experience is worthwhile for any child, I know that any experience is richer with guided reflection.
Strategies
Alive, Alert, Awake, Enthusiastic!
The song with movements I am going to share with you today can be a great tool for enlivening the class' energy or make an uplifting transition activity for your students!
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Make Not Art the Servant
In our zeal to improve test scores and make learning the core curriculum more engaging, let us not make art a faithful servant to the core curriculum.
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