ANNENBERG/CPB PRESENTS
A New Professional Development Resource
for Elementary School
Teachers
featuring Teachers and students from
Drew Model Elementary School!
The Arts in Every Classroom is designed to give
elementary school teachers a richer understanding of dance, music, theatre, and
the visual arts, and to help teachers integrate the arts effectively into their
classrooms. It is intended for use by
general classroom teachers as well as arts specialist teachers. The Arts in Every Classroom includes:
$ a Video Library of fourteen
half-hour documentary programs showing classroom teachers and arts specialist
teachers using the arts in a variety of successful ways
$ a Workshop of eight one-hour
television programs
for use as a professional development series, with graduate credit available
$ two coordinated Web sites, one for the Video Library
and one for the Workshop, to enrich and support the viewing experience
$ print guides for Workshop facilitators
and users of the Video Library.
Video Library and Workshop
programs will be available free of charge via the Annenberg/CPB Channel, and Aon demand@ at the Annenberg/CPB Web
site: www.learner.org. Programs
will also be available for purchase online or by calling 1-800-LEARNER. All print and Web materials will be
available free of charge on the Web site.
VIDEO LIBRARY PROGRAMS
Organizing for the Arts
<
Three
Leaders at Arts-Based Schools
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Leadership
Team
Arts Specialists at Work
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Expanding
the Role of the Arts
Specialist
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Teaching
Dance
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Teaching
Music
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Teaching
Theatre
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Teaching
Visual Art
Arts in the General
Classroom
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Developing
an Arts-Based Unit
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Working
With Local Artists
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Collaborating
With a Cultural Resource
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Bringing
Artists to Your Community
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Students
Create a Multi-Arts Performance
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Borrowing
From the Arts to Enhance
Learning
WORKSHOP PROGRAMS
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What
is Art?
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Responding
to the Arts
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Historical
References in the Arts
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Creating
a Multi-Arts Performance Piece
In these four programs,
Workshop Leaders from the Southeast Center for Education in the Arts guide
Learner Teams from three elementary schools through a multi-arts unit of study
that viewers can use in their own classrooms.
Each Learner Team includes the school=s principal, an arts
specialist teacher, and two classroom teachers.
<
Designing
a Multi-Arts Curriculum Unit
<
The
Role of Assessment in Curriculum Design
Workshop Leaders explain how
they used an Enduring Idea, Essential Questions, and Unit Objectives to create
the unit modeled in Programs 1-4. The
Learner Teams start to develop their own arts-based curriculum units.
<
Building
on New Ideas (working title)
< Collaborating for Success
With the Arts (working title)
Members of the Learner Teams
are seen in their own schools, putting into practice what they have learned.
The Arts in Every Classroom is produced by Lavine
Production Group in collaboration with
KSA-Plus Communications and the Southeast Center
for Education in the Arts. LPG is a
New York-based company that specializes in television programming about
education and the arts. KSA-Plus, based
in Arlington, VA, works with a wide variety of education-based organizations to
create effective communications strategies and innovative print and Web
materials. SCEA is a nationally
recognized center for excellence in professional development for teachers,
located at
The University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga.
Annenberg/CPB, a partnership between the
Annenberg Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, uses media
and telecommunications to foster excellent teaching in American schools. Annenberg/CPB funds educational series and
teacher professional development workshops for the Annenberg/CPB Channel, which
is distributed free by satellite to schools and other educational and community
organizations nationwide. For further
information on The Arts in Every Classroom, contact Lavine Production
Group at (212) 643-7550 or <information@lavinegroup.com>.
July 2002