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Introduction. Created by Marcia McCaffrey, Arts Consultant, NH Dept. of EducationRecommend policy around arts education, identify best practices in arts education,
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1. A User’s Guide To Arts Integration
2. Introduction Created by Marcia McCaffrey, Arts Consultant, NH Dept. of Education
Recommend policy around arts education, identify best practices in arts education, & train teachers in best practices
Develop partnerships within the state to implement best practices in arts education
3. New Hampshire K-12 Curriculum Framework for the Arts Guiding document that describes what students should know and be able to do in the four arts disciplines of dance, music, theatre and visual arts.
Making connections among the arts and other disciplines is a common standard across all four arts disciplines.
4. “Arts” defined as: Dance, music, theatre and visual art
What about poetry, creative writing, media arts, film…
All schools K-12 in New Hampshire are required to offer instruction in music and visual art, while providing opportunities for students to study dance and theatre
˝ credit required for HS graduation
5. “Imagination is more important than knowledge” Albert Einstein The etymology of the word education indicates that its Latin root, ‘educere’ means, “to draw out.”
6. Education Occurring during the regular school day-that is “curricular.”
Teaching and learning that is “standards-based.”
Relating with other arts-based organizations that may provide supplemental arts learning experiences for students.
7. Educational Drivers
8. No Child Left Behind Act Includes “arts” as a core subject area
However, under NCLB, the arts are not part of the required state testing system or the definition of adequate yearly progress.
What is tested, is taught…(another presentation, another day)
9. So, we must ask: How core are the arts, really, in today’s education?
What value does the study and practice of the arts bring to education today?
What is unique about studying the arts? What do the arts have to contribute to education as a whole?
How do we know?
10. How core are the arts, really, in today’s education?
11. What value does the study and practice of the arts bring to education today?
12. What is unique about studying the arts? What do the arts contribute to education as a whole?
13. How do we know?
14. Arts Integration Arts integration begins to look at these questions in terms of learning processes, brain functioning, cognition, and research.
But first things first…
15. Interdisciplinary education
Interdisciplinary education enables students to identify and apply authentic connections between two or more disciplines and/or to understand essential concepts that transcend individual disciplines.
Authentic Connections: Interdisciplinary Work in the Arts
Consortium of National Arts Education Associations: AATE MENC NAEA NDEO
2002
17. Same animal, different name: Interdisciplinary education that includes that arts:
Arts integration
Integrated arts
Arts-based learning
Arts-infused learning
And maybe a slightly different intensity level
22. Connections How can you connect local arts resources and the work you do with students to the broader school curriculum?
What interdisciplinary connections have you inherently made?
What connections do students make on their own?