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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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Pat Klos taught middle school foreign languages and served as an arts integration specialist in MD. She shares how to connect literacy and the arts through visual thinking strategies.
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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?
Organization
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.
Organization
Who Exactly Does the Integrating?
WHO exactly does the integrating? arts integration lesson is one where the content and fine arts standards are being taught and assessed equitably.
Assessment
Write Like an Artist!
Have you tried using artist statements as assessments in your classroom?
Educator PD
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.
Educator PD
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.
Educator PD
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.
Strategies
Visual Analysis: Writing to Source
How can visual analysis benefit our students in an arts integrated classroom?
Resources
Making SMART Goals to Strive for Success
We're getting ready to start a new school year and it's time to start thinking of new SMART goals we intend to accomplish this year.
Assessment
Shaking Student Growth through the Arts
Many districts are moving to Student Learning Objectives or Student Growth Targets as a part of their teacher evaluation for use with Common Core.
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