Strategies
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat – Strategies for Student Engagement
Try using Edgar Allen Poe's work, The Black Cat, as an arts integration strategy.
Assessment
Discover a variety of arts assessments and integrated assessment ideas that capture creativity in the classroom and help identify where your students need to go next.
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We're sharing with you these cool lock screens and wallpapers, awesome STEAM images for your iPhones, Android phones,
Strategies
Art Making: Concentration with Imagination
Art Making - As I have shared on a number of occasions, visual art is not my forte but I am loving having the opportunity to teach art for art’s sake.
Approaches
GAIN: A New Arts Integration Network
GAIN is the Global Arts Integration Network and its founder, Maria Barbosa, is a brilliant Arts Integration Specialist and STEAM pioneer.
Educator PD
The Power of Your Default Future
One concept that has had a lasting and valuable impact on me is the idea of the default future.
Approaches
STEAMaker Classroom Ideas
In celebration of this week's announcement about our summer STEAM conference, we're discussing STEAMaker classroom ideas.
Strategies
Yes, and: Teaching Students to Improvise
Yes, and” is a great way to get started teaching students about acceptance of others’ ideas and building on those ideas.
Strategies
Are you getting MYST-y?
One new one that I learned is called MYST and I like it because it involves reflective practice for teachers - the core of my educational philosophy.
Strategies
Arts: The Great Unifier
I was reminded how important the arts are to celebrations and how lucky I am to be a part of a family that values and participates in the arts.
Strategies
Focused Notes: it’s not the note-taking, it’s the note-making that counts
Mastering effective note taking is an important part of a student's college preparation.
Strategies
Paul Gauguin and the Three Questions
Paul Gauguin and his painting asks us to look deeply at our past, present and future not so much to answer questions but to search deep within ourselves.
Strategies
Love is in the Air: Colors, Lines and Valentines!
Making Valentines with elements of art is a great way to have the students create something they will be intrinsically motivated to share.
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