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"The Arts in Every Classroom" (Series)
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Ages: 18 - 18
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Successful collaborations between classroom teachers and artists who come for a residency enrich the curriculum of this rural school in Idalia, Colorado. A visiting actor brings story–telling and vocabulary to life for kindergarten and fourth–grade s...tudents and their teachers, while a musician engages first– and third–grade students in writing songs that relate to subjects they are studying.
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March 11, 2010 at 02:46 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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Students and teachers at P.S. 156 (The Waverly School of the Arts) in Brooklyn, New York, benefit from the school’s established relationships with artists from local organizations. This program focuses on a first–grade class creating original works w...ith visiting artists — a dancer and a writer.
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March 11, 2010 at 02:44 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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This program includes three segments: What Is Arts Education? shows a montage of insights from teachers and administrators, plus examples of successful arts instruction in classrooms across America. What Are the Arts? presents teachers, administrator...s, students, and parents who offer thoughtful and sometimes humorous comments on what the arts mean to them. In How Do You Know They’re Learning?, educators from several schools tell how they know if their students are "getting it."
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March 11, 2010 at 02:23 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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Two music specialists from arts–based schools demonstrate different approaches to serving diverse student populations. At Harmony Leland Elementary School in Mableton, Georgia, all 500 students study the violin. Their classes with Barrett Jackson bec...ome lessons in character and discipline. At Smith Renaissance School of the Arts in Denver, Sylvia Bookhardt and a class of fifth–graders explore the Renaissance through choral singing.
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March 11, 2010 at 02:38 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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Two teachers with contrasting training and approaches to teaching bring rich dance experiences to students at their arts–based schools. Kathy DeJean, the dance specialist at Lusher Alternative Elementary School in New Orleans, promotes inquiry and se...lf-expression in a multi-grade dance class. Scott Pivnik, a former physical education teacher at P.S. 156 (The Waverly School of the Arts) in Brooklyn, New York, uses African dance as a gateway to geography, writing, and personal growth for a class of second–graders.
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March 11, 2010 at 02:37 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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Two specialists work on basic theatre skills with children of various ages, and use theatre education as a gateway to other kinds of learning. At Lusher Alternative Elementary School in New Orleans, Amanda Newberry’s lesson in improvisation with a th...ird–grade class stimulates students’ imagination, heightens language and listening skills, and encourages critical thinking. At Barney Ford Elementary School in Denver, George Jackson teaches basic movement skills to a first–grade class, invites fourth–graders to take center stage as they explore a script, and works with fifth–graders to create masks that reveal inner feelings.
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March 11, 2010 at 02:40 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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A fourth–grade teacher and a museum educator in New Orleans collaborate to develop a unit of study with ties to language arts, social studies, and visual art. Students explore the work of a well–known artist, visit an exhibition of his work, meet for... a drawing lesson alongside the Mississippi River, and create poems and pictures that they proudly display to their parents.
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March 11, 2010 at 02:45 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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Three arts teachers work with colleagues around their schools, using collaborative techniques that go beyond the traditional work of arts specialists. Kathy DeJean is a dance artist at Lusher Alternative Elementary School in New Orleans; Mary Perkers...on is the visual art teacher at Harmony Leland Elementary School in Mableton, Georgia; and Amanda Newberry is the theatre specialist at Lusher.
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March 11, 2010 at 02:24 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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A team of arts specialists and classroom teachers at Lusher Alternative Elementary School in New Orleans guides kindergarten and fourth–grade students in creating an original work based on Cirque du Soleil’s Quidam. The program presents highlights of... the creative process, including brainstorming about characters’ emotions, creating speech and movement for the characters, constructing costumes, and performing.
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March 11, 2010 at 02:48 PM
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