EDUCATION IN THE ARTS

Today, a trio of women taught us three lessons. Ana taught very interesting ideas about Spanish, her native language; Isabella introduced us to the details of the historic Panama Canal, located in her country, and Lucy shared with us how proud she is to be an Italian and everything about it, from geography, to monuments, to food and art. See Lucy's Lesson Plan bellow: Instructor : Lucia Pampana Subject and Grade Level : Italy: monuments, culture and cuisine                                             Fourth Grade Unit Topic : Lesson Topic: Geography and Culture  Date : 03/28/18 LESSON PLAN I. OBJECTIVE   To raise the students’ awareness of what Italy offers through the fun learning of its monuments, cuisine and language.                  LANGUAGE : English and It...

Break the Ice Today, the students started applying what they have learned throughout the semester. Gillian, Alexia and Joe, in that order, demonstrated their abilities to engage their classmates through their lessons. Bellow, A sample of Alexia's lesson plan. Alexia Hirlemann Lesson Plan          Grade:  10      Date: 3/26/18            Time: 20 min Subject :  World Languages   Lesson : Introduction to American Sign Language Material s:  Computer, Projector, Audio system Standards:  The student will be able to understand and interpret information, concepts, and ideas orally from culturally authentic sources in the target language. Objective:   By the end of this lesson, the students will know the alphabet in ASL and will understand the Procedures:   1.   ...

1 Children's Creativity Museum Getting Ready for Teaching Videos Above, there is a link to the Children's Creativity Museum in San Francisco.  Bellow, there are two links: one to Adam Grant's talk on original thinkers.  The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant Lucy shared this inspiring video; I hope you also get to watch it. Every Parent, Student And Teacher Needs To Hear This | by Jay Shetty Progression The purpose of today's class was to create consensus about teaching, its importance and its best possible practice through the visual and performing arts. The students were made aware of the "principles of progression" (simple to complex), thematic progressions, and the transition from creative freedom to sensual awareness to control of the form (Brehm & McNett 2008). Finally the main steps of lesson planning were reviewed, namely: Gathering information about your thematic topic Finding conceptual li...

Restoring Songs and Stories The students read the introduction to Integrating the Performing Arts and summarized the main ideas discussed in the introduction.

5 Tips to Help You Read a Script Today is the last day for groups to plan and present their lessons collectively. Students will begin to organize, plan and present their individual lessons in order to develop a hands on sense of what is like to teach a class. They will have 20 minutes to teach their objective by introducing their topic, leading a learning activity and assessing the degree to which students learned the content of the lesson. Bellow, see lesson plan: LESSON PLAN  Instructor:  Alexia, , K ennedi,  Joe,  Danielle,  Chelsea Subject(s) and  Grade Level: 4 th Grade  Unit Topic:   Theater Lesson Topic:   Introduction to expression  Date(s):   3/7/2018 OBJECTIVE: The students will be able to learn to tell the difference between stage positions and recognize anti-bullying interventions they can act on.  LANGUAGE:  English  MATERIALS:  Us...