Series: Arts Integration
The Kennedy Center's perspective on the principles and best practices for arts integration
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Tipsheet: Art Critiques Made Easy
One-word answers and grunts don't count as student critiques of art. How to foster interesting and authentic discussion in the classroom
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Article: Arts Education: Making the Case With Legislators
Educators offer voter- and data-driven advocacy
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Take Five: Arts in the 21st Century Classroom
The skills our students need can be readily integrated into arts lessons and vice versa
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Tipsheet: Beyond Food & Fiestas
Practical ideas for creating authentic cultural experiences for your students
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Article: Constructivism: Actively Building Arts Education
A brief introduction to constructivism and how arts educators can utilize it effectively
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Article: Creative Conflict: Resolving & Avoiding Conflict in Group Art Projects
Explore ways to handle conflicts among students while teaching them that voicing their opinions matters, as well as being able to negotiate and compromise
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Take Five: Cultural Connections
Enliven and enrich your cultural heritage month observances through the arts
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Tipsheet: Dance and Historical Events
Dance helps students better understand the far-reaching impact of historical events on many areas of a nation’s life
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Article: Dealing with Sensitive Themes Onstage
Staging controversial shows in school theaters presents rewards and risks. Veteran arts educators share insights about the pros and cons of such shows, and how to produce them successfully
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Article: Do Tell: Giving Feedback to Your Students
How can arts educators provide engaging and useful feedback? Here are seven suggestions to get you started
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Article: Encouraging Your Students to Become Choreographers
Use these great ideas to get your students choreographing at your school
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Tipsheet: Five Easy Drama Games for the Early Elementary Classroom
Get your students up with these games that are great for any size class and classroom
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Tipsheet: Five Easy Social Dances for Early Elementary
Channel your students’ love of movement with these easy social dances
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Article: Formal Visual Analysis: The Elements & Principles of Composition
Help students build techniques to interpret what they see into written words using art
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Article: Get Wired for Learning
Are you stumped about how to integrate technology into your arts teaching? Check out these eight tips to put you on the road to tech-savvy arts learning
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Article: Getting Schooled: When Arts Teachers Become Students
Learn what makes up the five core elements of effective teacher development with a focus on learning in and through the arts
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Tipsheet: Going Public
Here are the best and safest ways to share your student's work with the world!
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Article: Growing from STEM to STEAM
Find tips to blend arts, sciences, math and technology by learning how one school district experimented with adding STEAM to their classrooms
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Article: How Dance Can Teach Literature
How to incorporate dance into a traditional English classroom
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Article: Inspired Classrooms
Need to battle off those creativity killers? Here are seven simple steps for educators to create a classroom environment that is friendly to creativity
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Article: It Takes a Village: Parent Volunteers
Learn how parent volunteers can contribute to the learning environment with the right goal-oriented guidelines
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Take Five: Music Matters
Incorporating music makes content lessons more exciting and memorable. And it's easy to do!
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Article: New Paths to Learning
An introduction for educators to differentiation instruction through the arts for academically gifted students
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Article: Opera-tunity Knocks
A guide for all opera newbies, both young and old, with some hints as to how to calm the opera skeptic
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