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Using the Arts in the Classroom
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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. (28:00)
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March 5, 2011 at 12:07 AM
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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. (28:00)
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March 4, 2011 at 11:48 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. (28:16)
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March 4, 2011 at 11:31 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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To add vitality and context to day–to–day learning experiences, three teachers use techniques drawn from the arts that engage their students’ minds, bodies, and emotions. In Denver, a teacher uses rhythm, color, movement, and hands–on projects to eng...age her class of fourth– and fifth–grade boys. In White Plains, New York, third–grade students create short skits that help them understand the concept of cause and effect. In Lithonia, Georgia, a fifth–grade social studies unit on family history culminates with students using favorite objects to make visual representations of their lives. (28:25)
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March 5, 2011 at 10:59 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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This video includes three segments: What Is Arts Education? (14 minutes) shows a montage of insights from teachers and administrators, plus examples of successful arts instruction in classrooms across America. What Are the Arts? (5 minutes) presents ...teachers, administrators, 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? (4 minutes), educators from several schools tell how they know if their students are "getting it." Total time is 23 minutes.
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March 4, 2011 at 10:51 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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At Lusher Elementary School in New Orleans, principal Kathleen Hurstell Riedlinger works closely with a Leadership Team of classroom and arts teachers. The team’s central role in management is part of a long–term strategy to protect the school’s comm...itment to arts–based learning. We meet individual members of the team and see them work together on a diverse agenda, including the school’s annual Arts Celebration, the increased demand for enrollment from outside the school’s neighborhood, and orientation of new teachers to the school’s arts–based curriculum. (28:25)
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March 5, 2011 at 11:30 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. (28:25)
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March 5, 2011 at 10:10 PM
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Ages: 18 - 18
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Three administrators provide instructional leadership and solve day–to–day challenges at arts–based schools serving diverse student populations. In Brooklyn, principal Martha Rodriguez–Torres describes her role as "politician, social worker, parent, ...and police officer," and says that her primary responsibility is to "provide teachers the resources they need to fulfill the program." In Georgia, principal Sandra McGary–Ervin encourages use of the arts to achieve the school’s priority goal of literacy. And in Denver, assistant principal Rory Pullens uses his own arts background to ensure that the arts play a prominent role in day–to–day learning. (27:50)
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March 5, 2011 at 11:10 PM
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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. (27:25)
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March 5, 2011 at 10:28 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. (28:00)
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March 5, 2011 at 10:45 PM
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