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Creating Context and Relevance in the Classroom
Strategies for creating context and relevance for classroom students to make learning more meaningful and engaging.
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BEST: An Integrated Teaching of the Elements of Dance
By looking at each of those 4 dance elements, you may find some natural points of integration with core content.
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Student Art Inspires Writing
Showcased a writing lesson which incorporated a slightly different version of a visual art strategy that that I love to use with kids at all grade levels.
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Teaching Students to Know How they Know: Metacognition through the Arts
Using the arts to support and illuminate metacognition for students empowers them to pursue a lifetime of deep and meaningful learning.
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Look, Think, Write!
I was scheduled to attend a workshop at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) called Teaching Writing through Art.
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Planning for Success
The best way to have a successful Arts Integration lesson is to be over-prepared so you can relax and enjoy the process of planning for success.
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Drama Adds Up to Literacy with CBRT
Do you want to integrate drama into your classroom in a simple but highly effective way?
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Mantras for Sanity
"Baby steps” combined with “keep it simple” have proved to be useful mantras when my enthusiasm overrides my reason and human limitations.
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Write Like an Artist!
Have you tried using artist statements as assessments in your classroom?
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Attention to Detail
I was working with a team of elementary teachers to develop a series of arts integrated writing activities that would provide students a targeted practice.
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Preparing Students for Changing Careers
Career-based education in the next few years, as more stakeholders begin to realize that we are no longer preparing students for a single, lifelong job.
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Learning for Life and the Late Bloomers
People no longer see learning as something simply for teenagers and 20-somethings hoping to crack into their dream field.
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