Strategies
The Beauty of Simple Structure
This simple structure allowed their own ideas to be channeled and freed and allowed me the opportunity to really observe each child.
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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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Educator PD
Best Degrees for the Traveling Soul
Some people graduate from seminary schools and then spend their lives traveling through these “third world” areas, helping to build them up.
Educator PD
Nurturing Your Creative Self: A Fun New Year’s Resolution
I'm talking about nurturing your creative self, doing what it takes to take your creative mind to new heights, goals and success.
Strategies
Reading Comprehension Strategies Using the Arts
Here are different arts techniques you can use for reading comprehension strategies.
Strategies
From Movement to Meaning: A Study of Synonyms and Antonyms through Dance
One idea was simply to give a word and have the students find a synonyms and an antonyms for that word and dance those words.
Strategies
Equal Rhythms: Math, Music AND Movement!
Once you have read Susan Riley's Equal Rhythms Lesson consider using movement to deepen your students’ understanding and have them embody the rhythms.
Educator PD
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.
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.
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.
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.
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