Curriculum
A Balanced Composition – STEAM Lesson Seed
Today’s Free Friday is a new STEAM lesson seed, following our week’s theme of balance.
Social Emotional Learning
In a time when schools are facing issues with bullying, poverty, and intense expectations, social emotional learning is more important than ever. As a tool for making meaning and communication, the arts can have a profound impact on the social emotional health of our students. In this section, you'll find resources and tips for integrating SEL with the Arts in your own classroom. Want more? Explore our online SEL and the Arts course for 25 PD hours.
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Approaches
5 Ways to Bring Balance To Student Work
Here are 5 ways that you can encourage students to develop their ability to bring the art of balance to their student work.
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.
Resources
Transforming from Traditional to Tradigital
We live in a world where technology is becoming more and more prevalent, and being released with new innovations every year.
Resources
8 Ways to Create a Networked Classroom
There is no reason that in the 21st century we shouldn’t be seeing an explosion of the networked classroom as a standard of good teaching.
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.
Approaches
Tour the New Institute Website!
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Educator PD
Best Degrees for the Traveling Soul
Some people graduate from seminary schools and then spend their lives traveling through these “third world” areas, helping to build them up.
Resources
Managing ePortfolios through the Cloud
ePortfolios are going to change the way that we assess students, beyond the arts classes, across all contents.
Resources
Creating Courses through Pinterest
Our focus today is using social media giant Pinterest and teaching you and others how we succeed creating courses through Pinterest.
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.
Resources
How to Ask Interesting Questions using the Creative Process
Students must be able to find and craft interesting questions in order to truly be invested in what and how they learn.
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