
Analyze This!
By integrating the arts into the core curriculum, the students get more practice with those skills of analyzing text and supporting answers with examples.
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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By integrating the arts into the core curriculum, the students get more practice with those skills of analyzing text and supporting answers with examples.

Why not employ the same technique for creating Arts Integration lessons by finding an Arts Integration Buddy?

If you are looking for a tool to encourage you to reflect and fully articulate ideas you have around your teaching craft, commit to blogging.

When something is getting personal, we care deeply about it; it carries meaning for us.

There is something that you feel your students lack, or your lessons lack?

In an arts integrated classroom, we want to be giving as much equal and balanced engagement in the various arts as we can.

This simple structure allowed their own ideas to be channeled and freed and allowed me the opportunity to really observe each child.

I'm talking about nurturing your creative self, doing what it takes to take your creative mind to new heights, goals and success.

Here are different arts techniques you can use for reading comprehension strategies.

One idea was simply to give a word and have the students find a synonyms and an antonyms for that word and dance those words.

Once you have read Susan Riley's Equal Rhythms Lesson consider using movement to deepen your students’ understanding and have them embody the rhythms.

Connect with your inner artist, the richer your teaching will be and the more committed to Arts Integration you will become.
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