Strategies
Equation Rhyme Time: Math through Music
Featuring two music techniques that can be directly tied to Common Core math and Common Core reading and writing.
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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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.
Strategies
Music Strategies for Every Classroom
You just need to find an access point of music with which you feel comfortable, try out new music strategies and communicate freely with your music teacher.
Resources
Science is Play
The process of making art and the process of doing science are both forms of play and important means of learning.
Curriculum
Reading the Art Lesson
Today's lesson combines Common Core literature reading standards and visual art standards.
Strategies
Transition Time: The Art of Successful Transitions
Time is a precious commodity in today’s classroom and transition times can cause us to lose some.
Approaches
Curriculum with Caution: Extension or Integration?
What I just described is extension, relevant connections or even a curriculum overlay.
Strategies
How to Connect Across the Curriculum
Connect theater, movement, music and science through the concept of color intensity.
Assessment
Common Core and Arts Integration Assessment Rubric
To finish up our assessment series this week, we are providing you with a fantastic new assessment rubric tool that you can use in your classroom today.
Assessment
Connecting Assessments through the Arts
Today, we're going to take a look at the PARCC sample assessment prototypes and find out how connecting assessments through the arts.
Strategies
Picture This: Exploring Art Elements in Picture Books
Today, we'll be discussing how to introduce your students to the concept of illustration and its elements!
Assessment
An Equitable Assessment Model
And here is where the Arts become truly reflected within this newly proposed assessment model.
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