Strategies
Dancing through Sound
Today's dancing through sound strategy is based in an old Dalcroze method that uses sound to provide a springboard for creativity and interpretation.
Professional Development
All teachers need professional development. Why not make it meaningful to your individual teaching practice? In this area, you'll find a wide variety of ways you can keep your own creative juices flowing. Be sure to dig into the subtopics for more specific PD opportunities.
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Strategies
Equation Rhyme Time: Math through Music
Featuring two music techniques that can be directly tied to Common Core math and Common Core reading and writing.
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.
Strategies
Music Strategies for Every Classroom
You just need to find an access point of music with which you feel comfortable, try out new music strategies and communicate freely with your music teacher.
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.
Approaches
Curriculum with Caution: Extension or Integration?
What I just described is extension, relevant connections or even a curriculum overlay.
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.
Strategies
Picture This: Exploring Art Elements in Picture Books
Today, we'll be discussing how to introduce your students to the concept of illustration and its elements!
Assessment
An Equitable Assessment Model
And here is where the Arts become truly reflected within this newly proposed assessment model.
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