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The Tobin Center’s FIRST ANNUAL Arts Integration Conference!
Harvey E. Najim Arts Integration Program
Network with like-minded professionals, taking a day-long deep dive into Arts Integration. Choose two workshops from eight opportunities, each connecting art form with curriculum, and take home effective and efficient strategies to elevate your classroom to the next level!
6 hours of CPE Credit upon request.
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Virtual Professional Development Series
All sessions are virtual, on your own time - at your own pace.
All sessions open until the end of June.
CPE Credit provided to all eligible participants after the sessions have closed.
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Lynne Silverstein
The Art of the Match: Connecting the Arts to Other Curriculum
ALL LEVELS AND ADMIN
Asynchronous
Creating arts-integrated topics remains a skill teachers continually ask about and want to develop. What makes a “good fit” between an arts focus and another subject area? How can teachers uncover the possibilities? Designed by the authors of the Kennedy Center’s definition of arts integration, Lynne Silverstein and Sean Layne have put their minds together again to create a helpful, user-friendly process for creating arts integration connections.
Sean Layne
Defining Arts Integration: The What and The Why
K-12
Asynchronous
Many professional development programs are based on a philosophy and practice of teaching called arts integration.
So what is arts integration? This session unpacks the definition the Kennedy Center developed and gives you the opportunity to uncover the characteristics of quality integration. In addition, the session includes your participation in an arts-integrated lesson and examines how arts-integrated instruction aligns with current learning principles and best practices.
*This workshop was designed by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Melanie Rick
Let’s Talk! Facilitating and Managing Student Conversations in the Arts Integrated Classroom
ALL LEVELS
Asynchronous
An arts-integrated approach to teaching is grounded in collaborative, social, and cooperative learning. The heart of this approach is the student’s ability to effectively engage in, navigate, and negotiate purposeful conversations. This session explores how to establish the literacy of academic conversations that develop the speaking and listening skills required of Common Core Standards and 21st Century Learning.
Designing Classroom Spaces for Arts Integrated Learning
ALL LEVELS
Asynchronous
Arts integration and 21st-century learning require collaboration, creation/design, and the engagement of higher-order thinking. Unfortunately, many classrooms were not designed with this type of learning in mind! In this session, consider how to redesign and organize your classroom's physical layout and furniture arrangement so it is flexible and can support students' ability to be creative and collaborative while constructing and demonstrating their understandings through the arts.
Imani Gonzalez
Building Comprehension Through Sound and Rhythm
K-8
Explore new paths to help students develop reading comprehension strategies and make connections between music and language. This session guides participants through a process to help students create a Soundscape – a way to retell the story that connects students to the story’s tone, mood, setting, and the characters’ culture(s). This learning process will help students create sensory images, use questioning strategies, develop inference skills, and determine importance.
Harlan Brownlee
Moving Through Poetry: Exploring Vocabulary and Meaning with Dance
(6-12)
Working with the elements of dance, this workshop provides teachers an engaging approach for students to explore free-verse poetry and delve into the nuances of rich vocabulary. Take back to your classroom movement and dance strategies to enhance the meaning of text and help students express their understanding of words and poems.
The Many Ways to Move Through the Curriculum
(K-8)
Dance is not one thing. It is many. There are multiple ways to effectively use it in the classroom as an instructional approach depending on your learning objectives and placement within a unit of study. Join Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, Harlan Brownlee, as he draws on his 39 years of teaching experience and guides participants in a series of participatory movement-based structures designed to integrate into daily lesson plans and increase instructional effectiveness. Dress comfortably to explore this toolbox of movement strategies and leave with the knowledge of when and why to use them and get your students moving through the curriculum!
Melanie Rick
Our final Hybrid Virtual Session! Get your seats now!
The Power of Pictures: Decoding Illustrations to Deepen Comprehension
December 12, 2023
(PK-3)
Students in the early years are often emerging readers who depend on images to provide visual cues that aid in comprehension. This workshop focuses on reading illustrations in fiction picture books before, during, and after reading to help students develop the skills of prediction, inference/drawing conclusions, sequence, and retelling a story.
Asynchronous Courses open the date of the Live-Synchronous session and close July 1, 2024.
