Artful Teaching: Integrating the Arts for Understanding Across the Curriculum, K-8

by Donahue, David M.

• ISBN13: 9780807750803
• ISBN10: 0807750808
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

The authors in this volume share exemplary arts-integration practices across the K-8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be followed, they carefully describe how the arts provide an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn. The book includes rich and lively examples of public school teachers integrating visual arts, music, drama, and dance with subject matter, including English, social studies, science, and mathematics. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of why and how to use the arts everyday, in every school, to reach every child. Both a practitioner’s guide and a school reform model, this important book: Explains how arts integration across the K-8 curriculum contributes to student learning; Features examples of how integrated arts education functions in classrooms when it is done well; Explores intensive teacher-education and principal-training programs now underway in several higher education institutions; Offers concrete ideas for educators who are looking to strengthen their own skills

Author Biography

David M. Donahue is associate professor of education at Mills College, Oakland, California. nnifer Stuart is arts coordinator at San Francisco Friends School.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction: Five Best Questions About Arts Integration: What to Ask Before Your Start	p. 1
Essential Questions About The Arts and Integration
What Is Art?	p. 19
How Does Art Connect to Social Justice?	p. 31
Art for Every Child
Creating Alliances for Arts Learning and Arts Integration	p. 45
Seeing Is Believing: Making Our Learning Through the Arts Visible	p. 57
Art In Every School
Leadership for and in the Arts	p. 71
Arts Integration: One School, One Step at a Time	p. 79
Musical People, a Musical School	p. 89
Art Every Day
Visual Prompts in Writing Instruction: Working with Middle School English Language Learners	p. 103
Creativity as Classroom Management: Using Drama and Hip-Hop	p. 111
Keeping Reading and Writing Personal and Powerful: Bringing Poetry Writing and Bookmaking Together	p. 122
Learning and Teaching Dance in the Elementary Classroom	p. 138
Working with K-12 Students: Teaching Artists' Perspectives	p. 148
Afterword	p. 159
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 167
Index	p. 171
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