Strategies
Exploiting Chaos – Thriving When You Think You’re Failing
I love the book title Exploiting Chaos because it's so contrarian.
Project Based Learning
Project Based Learning (also known as PBL), is an approach that connects inquiry, solving real-world problems and meaningful hands-on experiences. This is a perfect opportunity to integrate the arts! But be careful - there's more to this than just fun projects. In this comprehensive area, you'll find everything you need to connect PBL and the arts with integrity. Want to learn more? Try our Project Based Learning in the Arts online class in our Accelerator membership and build a PBL lesson while getting 25 PD hours.
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Strategies
Learning SmARTer: Using the Arts to Strengthen Memory and Learning
The arts can be an effective tool to help students with retrieval practice to solidify and maintain the integrity of their learning and strengthen memory.
Resources
How to Build Your STEAM Skills through Online Learning
Online learning enhancements, though, you can start and stop and re-watch whatever portions you need to really master the skills ahead of leaping in.
Strategies
Typography and Elements of Design
By arming students with an awareness of how typography can affect an audience, students can create effective presentations and become adept communicators.
Assessment
10+ Lifehacks for the Arts Teacher Evaluation
As we approach mid-year, teacher evaluations are in full swing for many educators.
Strategies
Cutting the Cord: Transitioning to Common Core
Support the Common Core reading objectives with this quick and easy strategy for reading informational text; and still have time for preparing performances.
Educator PD
Resolve to Set Goals that Matter
Goals are things that we can set for ourselves that propel our motion towards progress forward.
Educator PD
Bringing History into the Classroom
Acess to history archives, video, documents, and other tangible items that will get your history lessons out of the textbooks into students' imaginations.
Resources
Time: A “Four Letter Word” in Education
Time is the only thing that allows things to be done well.
Curriculum
Arts Integration and STEAM Conference
Annual Connectivity STEAM Conference and this year's focus will be all about Arts Integration, STEAM and the Common Core.
Assessment
EdCloset Best of 2013: Integrated PARCC Assessment Rubric
PARCC draft writing rubric for grades 4-5. The writing standards and rubrics provide all of us with such a natural way to weave into Common Core as ...
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