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Connecting with the Arts: A Workshop for Middle Grades Teachers
Integrating the arts into content-area instruction
Grade Levels:
6-8
Length:
60 minutes
Taping Rights:
School year
Web Site:
Annenberg
Teaching Materials:
See Below

This eight-part professional development workshop shows middle school teachers why and how to integrate the arts (dance, music, theater, and visual art) into other subjects such as language arts, social studies, science, and math. Extensive classroom examples present teachers working together to create rich integrated learning experiences for their students, and a panel of arts educators responds to and discusses each example.

Connecting with the Arts is part of the Annenberg/CPB collection.



Broadcast Schedules

Individual episodes of this series also air on KET4. See the complete Connecting with the Arts broadcast schedule for details.


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2007/08 Block Feeds on KET ED

Block Feed: Programs 101-104 Program Details
3 hours, 59 minutes
    Monday, October 22 at 4:00 pm on KETED
    Monday, March 31 at 4:00 pm on KETED

Block Feed: Programs 105-108 Program Details
3 hours, 59 minutes
    Monday, October 29 at 4:00 pm on KETED
    Monday, April 7 at 4:00 pm on KETED


Episodes Included in These Block Feeds

101. Workshop 1. What Is Arts Integration?
Presents three instructional models for integrating the arts: independent instruction, team teaching, and collaborations with community resources. Participants also explore informal, complementary, and interdependent curricular connections and present examples of what these different types of arts-integrated instruction look like in the classroom. 60 minutes.

102. Workshop 2. Why Integrate the Arts?
Explores how integrating the arts with other subjects raises the level of student engagement, helps teachers address diverse learning styles, establishes the relevance of learning for students, and provides alternative ways to communicate. 59 minutes.

103. Workshop 3. How Do We Collaborate?
How teachers integrating the arts can benefit from collaborating with fellow teachers, partnering with visiting artists, and drawing on community resources. 59 minutes.

104. Workshop 4. What Roles Do Students Take On?
Examines the artistic process of creating, performing, and responding. Classroom examples show students assuming the roles of researcher, writer, designer, director, performer, and critic. 59 minutes.

105. Workshop 5. What Are Connecting Concepts?
Presents strategies for planning lessons that integrate the arts with other subjects, including organizing instruction around themes and concepts. 59 minutes.

106. Workshop 6. What's the Big Idea?
Demonstrates how to plan and teach toward big ideas—important understandings that have lasting value—and help students make deeply personal connections to what they are learning. 59 minutes.

107. Workshop 7. Identifying What Students Are Learning
Investigates ways to evaluate student learning in and through the arts. Classroom visits feature teachers using arts-based performance tasks to assess understanding. 59 minutes.

108. Workshop 8. Reflecting on Our Practice
Explores methods for assessing instructional practice. The participating teachers reflect alone and interact with colleagues to evaluate and refine their planning and teaching, and the discussion group models a protocol that allows teachers to draw on others' expertise to refine their own practice. 59 minutes.

Teaching Materials

VIDEO
http://www.learner.org/resources/series199.html
Annenberg Media Educational Sales
(202) 879-9600
401 9th St. NW
Washington, DC 20004
info@learner.org

VIEWER'S GUIDE
http://www.learner.org/resources/series199.html
Annenberg Media Educational Sales
(202) 879-9600
401 9th St. NW
Washington, DC 20004
info@learner.org



Kentucky schools may tape and retain programs according to the rights listed above. For further information, contact the KET Education Division.

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