Assessment
Creating Assessments to Demonstrate Student Growth
If you want to give your students ownership of their learning, you'll definitely want to keep these things in mind when creating assessments that demonstrate student growth.
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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Understanding Culture through Arts Integration
When teaching about archaeology and the stories artifacts tell about people in the past, we depend on art to be a way of connecting modern culture to ancient and historical cultures.
Strategies
Place Value Picnic STEAM Lesson
Ah, place value. Such a challenging concept for some elementary students.
Resources
Arts Integration: Art Musical Chairs
Art Musical Chairs is different from the original in that no one gets eliminated and everyone is painting to the beats, harmonies, and emotions of the music.
Strategies
Where They’re From: A Media Arts Project
Connecting with students can sometimes be difficult but connecting with those for whom English is not their first language and it can be even more daunting.
Educator PD
Creativity Personified: An Interview with Artist Melissa Goodling
Creativity. Everyone has a different definition or opinion of it.
Educator PD
3 Tips on Co-Teaching for Arts Integration and STEAM
Co-teaching is when more than one educator works to organize instruction, implement lessons, and assess the same group of students, sharing the same classroom.
Organization
30 Essential Questions through the Creative Process
Have you ever tried writing essential questions for your lessons or curriculum?
Educator PD
Deepening Understanding by Integrating Art with Art
Integrating the arts with core content area deepens the understanding of the concept being taught.
Educator PD
Teacher Motivation: Step Outside of Your Box
" Twyla Tharp said those words of wisdom. If you find yourself in a rut and need some motivation, we have you covered!
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