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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 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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Finding an Arts Integration Buddy
Why not employ the same technique for creating Arts Integration lessons by finding an Arts Integration Buddy?
Approaches
Blogging to be Better
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.
Strategies
Now That’s Getting Personal!
When something is getting personal, we care deeply about it; it carries meaning for us.
Strategies
Intention…That’s What’s Missing!
There is something that you feel your students lack, or your lessons lack?
Organization
Balanced Engagement: Giving Every Art Form Its Share of the Pie
In an arts integrated classroom, we want to be giving as much equal and balanced engagement in the various arts as we can.
Strategies
The Beauty of Simple Structure
This simple structure allowed their own ideas to be channeled and freed and allowed me the opportunity to really observe each child.
Educator PD
Nurturing Your Creative Self: A Fun New Year’s Resolution
I'm talking about nurturing your creative self, doing what it takes to take your creative mind to new heights, goals and success.
Strategies
Reading Comprehension Strategies Using the Arts
Here are different arts techniques you can use for reading comprehension strategies.
Strategies
From Movement to Meaning: A Study of Synonyms and Antonyms through Dance
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.
Strategies
Equal Rhythms: Math, Music AND Movement!
Once you have read Susan Riley's Equal Rhythms Lesson consider using movement to deepen your students’ understanding and have them embody the rhythms.
Educator PD
Connect to Your Inner Artist and Transform Yourself
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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