Teaching Strategies | The Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM

Showing 12 of 430 items

Strategies

Coach’s Corner: The Art of Lesson Planning

Lesson planning has become a lost art, with most teachers just turning to the PowerPoint presentation to get it done, missing most of a valuable lesson.

Mar 23, 2015

Strategies

Strategies to Revitalize the Arts Advocate

Mar 20, 2015

Strategies

Happy Belated St. Patrick’s Day! Group Dancing for some Classroom Fun

Whatever music or cultural tradition that inspires you like St.

Mar 18, 2015

Strategies

Unpacking the National Standards: Anchor Standard 8

This month we will be exploring National Standards 8 of our Unpacking the National Standards series.

Mar 16, 2015

Strategies

Core Music Anchor Standard 2

This month, as part of our year-long series unpacking the Core Arts Standards for General Music, we will be looking at Core Music Anchor Standard 2.

Mar 13, 2015

Strategies

Theatre Games: They’re Not Just for Theatre Anymore!

Need something fun to spice up your classroom?

Mar 11, 2015

Strategies

Listening with Intention: Building Better Listeners through Improvisational Dance

We can make that analogy for students between being constructive conversationalists, and active listeners and being good improvisational dance partners.

Mar 4, 2015

Strategies

Inspiration and Affirmation

Every now and then life hands you an experience that helps serve as both inspiration and aspiration.

Feb 25, 2015

Strategies

Core Music Anchor Standard 1

This is the first in an 11-month series where we shall break down the Core Music Anchor Standard for General Music.

Feb 13, 2015

Strategies

Unpacking the Dance Standards: Standard 7

In unpacking this dance standards we need to analyze what our students need to know, understand, and be able to do.

Feb 9, 2015

Strategies

The Umbrella of Inquiry: Problem, Project, and Passion-Based Learning

The umbrella of inquiry includes Inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, problem-based learning, Passion-Based Learning, where do we begin?

Feb 6, 2015

Strategies

I Like to Move It: Combining Gesture with Speech

Many of us unconsciously use gestures as we speak, but it turns out gesture may actually be an important aspect of language development and has implications for educators on increasing effectiveness of instruction.

Feb 4, 2015

Strategies

Listening with Intention: Building Better Listeners through Improvisational Dance

We can make that analogy for students between being constructive conversationalists, and active listeners and being good improvisational dance partners.