Assessment
Digital Assessment Tools for Arts Integration and STEAM
In today's SmART Ideas Video, I'm sharing my favorite digital assessment tools for diagnostic, summative, and formative assessment across content areas.
Holly Valentine
Holly Valentine is the Director of Curriculum and Assessment for the Institute for Arts Integration and Steam. Prior to joining the Institute, Holly worked as an Arts Integration and Classroom Teacher for 20 years in a suburb of Rochester, NY. She is a certified Arts Integration Specialist and has served as an Arts Standards Writer for the New York State Education Department. Holly has been a recipient of the NYC Broadway League's Apple Award for her work in Arts Education. She also serves as the Director of Education for the Rochester Broadway Theatre League, where she has created nationally recognized programs and develops standards-based curriculum for touring Broadway shows in order to bring the theatre to classrooms and classrooms to the theatre. Holly holds both a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Psychology as well as a Masters degree in Education from Nazareth College in Rochester, NY, where she currently lives.
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Strategies
The Magical Tool of Tableau
How can a tableau be useful in classroom? Are you intrigued to know?
Educator PD
Make the Most of Your Planning with this Tool
During the summer months, use this download to help break down our website and its resources.
Resources
Groove Pizza
The Institute shares how Groove Pizza, a music app for kids, can be used for arts integration.
Resources
Get Featured in the July 2016 Issue of STEAMed Magazine
We know you have a story to share! If you'd like to get your project, lesson, or idea featured in the July 2016 issue of STEAMed Magazine, here's your chance.
Educator PD
Week 14: Introduction to Music
Moving on in our Arts Appreciation course, we begin our discussion on Introducing Music.
Educator PD
Books for Personal and Professional Development: Volume 4
Everyone reaches a plateau creatively both personally and professionally.
Educator PD
Learning Math From a Different (Art) Angle
Teaching students to apply their knowledge of geometry and their use of protractors.
Resources
Art Every Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Social Connection, Health and the Arts
We all know why the arts are necessary. It provides expression, or a release of our inner feelings, and emotions, we can't easily express.
Curriculum
Dancing Shape Attributes STEAM Lesson
This free shape attributes lesson has been designed for use at the end of the year during your geometry units with 2nd and 3rd grade.
Curriculum
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
Are you looking for a culminating, arts integrated project for the end of the year?
Educator PD
Week 13: Designing the Dance Performance Season
As we close out our dance unit on week 13, students should be able to show a basic understanding of dance and performances listed here in this article.
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