Education in Arts - Fall 2019

  Curriculum Development - An Introduction --------------------------------- Article and Video on Arts and Technology in Miami Miami-Dade middle-school students put their drone and coding skills to the test at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article233040877.html#storylink=cpy Important Concepts Curriculum : It is the outline of concepts to be taught to students to help them meet the content standards. Curriculum is what is taught in a given course or subject. Curriculum refers to an interactive system of instruction and learning with specific goals, contents, strategies, measurement, and resources. It is a framework that identifies: learning goals for children, concepts and skills to taught, teaching strategies, and instructional methods. Curriculum Design : Curriculum design is seeing the big picture. When designing a unit, teachers think in terms of what they wants students to be able t...

Sir Kenneth Robinson is a British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was Director of the Arts in Schools Project and Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick, and is now Professor Emeritus at the same institution. In the following introductory video, Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.   Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson Site - specific performance is performance created in relation to a physical site and staged at the site itself (as opposed to a theater space). It often involves research of the site prior to the performance . It is available to all at no cost. It is an ideal medium for children who go to schools where there is no budget for the arts at the same time that it allows them to be creative in multiple ways using ju...

Students Romeo Finley, Robert Burns, and DeeJay Dallas with their piece Rivals  Lesson: Weather and Seasons Teaching Team: Molly Halback, Valerie Izquierdo, Kayla Pournazarian Objective : To teach first graders the meaning of weather and seasons. By the end of this lesson, they will understand the visual transformation in nature/temperature as seasons change. Materials : Recycled materials outside the classroom from courtyard- specifically leaves, flower, dirt, sticks, scrap paper. Encourage students to use imagination when selecting items.  Activity : As a class, we will go into the courtyard of school and collect three items each.  Before we go outside, we will explain an example for each season so they get the idea. Bring back to the classroom, and divide into “buckets” of spring, fall, summer, winter. If there is an item that can fit into two buckets, students can explain their thoughts and allow for discussion.  ...

Life and Death  Artists: Sami Tano, Susana Bustamante, Megan Rittemberg, Julia Kaplan Some people are lively in class and some people are not paying attention. Everybody is similar, yet different. The different types of leaves represent different types of people. They all make up the world. Untitled  Artists: Brennan Prusack, Caroline Kapp, Sim Vreeland, Annie Stockel In our piece the fork represents each of us as an individual. We are wrapped up by what society expects from us, thus the paper towel serves as a shield to who we really. We are teeter-totering in life as the fork tries to balance on the water bottle. The hair tie on one end bridges the fears and societal expectations. The ring is shiny, demonstrating the internal conflict we feel to try to break away from the shield, exposing who we really are as individuals along with revealing our vulnerabilities.   Santa's Enchanted Forest Artists: Kayla Pournaz...