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Build your Capacity in Arts Integration (Without Breaking the Bank)
Our goal, however, is to show you all of the ways that you can build your capacity in arts integration without breaking the bank.
Pat Klos
Pat is an arts integration specialist in Anne Arundel County, MD. Having been a mentor teacher and instructional coach, she passionately believes that integrating the arts is the best approach to teaching: it enriches the classroom environment with art, engages students and motivates learning. Her mission is help all teachers realize that they can teach through the arts with a little know-how. Pat appears every Monday. Email Pat.
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Art Inspired Cooperative Poetry
One of my favorite visual arts writing strategies, and a favorite with everyone who learns it, is Cooperative Poetry.
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5 Reasons You Need an Arts Advocacy Plan
Want to see what a sample arts advocacy plan looks like?
Strategies
The Improvisation Frame: A Music Arts Integration Strategy
This tool may help classroom and music teachers alike use this as a strategy for connecting the arts to other areas.
Resources
Arts Immersion To-Do List: Week 1
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.
Educator PD
Arts Integration 101
Here are my suggestions for laying a foundation of your arts repertoire-- Arts Integration 101!
Resources
Top 5 Tech Tools for Integrated Lessons
Here are my top 5 tech tools for integrated lessons, which help to move your message forward and connect across subjects.
Resources
Summer “Educator Recovery Program” with Arts Immersion!
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.
Curriculum
The Difference between Standards and Standardization
There is a difference between standards and standardization.
Resources
Getting Better with AI
Sometimes I can’t decide whether implementing Arts Integration (AI) in our classrooms is better for the student or for the teacher!
Educator PD
Building a Stand Out Resume
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