Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

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• Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
• Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
• Mission
• To present and create excellent and innovative
  performing arts programs for the enrichment,
  education, and enjoyment of diverse audiences and
  participants.

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• Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning
• Through the Arts
• Founded 1981, federal funding
• Professional development for teachers and
• Direct services for children
• Teaching artists in classroom residencies

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• Performing Arts Integration to support childrens
  
• active learning,
• cognitive,
• social,
• physical and
• emotional development
• and teachers curriculum, goals and practice.

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Tell me, and I may forget. Show me, and I may
not remember. Involve me, and Ill understand.
Native American Saying
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• Residency Model
• Teacher-Artist Partnership shared goals and
  objectives
• Per class 7 weeks twice/week 30-45 min.
• Scaffold and Fade approach
• Coaching and mentoring
• Supporting materials
• Evaluation

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• Professional Development Program
• Workshops for Teachers
• Clinics
• One-week residencies
• Coaching residencies

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• Regional Replication and Dissemination
• 14 Regional Programs in US
• Continuing Community Partners
• University and Continuing Education

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• Supporting Services and Resources
• Field Trip Performances
• Family Involvement Workshops
• Evaluations
• Distance Learning stART smART Network

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• Program Evaluations
• Harvard Project Zero, 1990 94
• Self awareness and self confidence
• Group awareness and socialization skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Ability to concentrate and remember
• Awareness of individual creativity
• Gross and fine motor control
• Motivation and enthusiasm for learning
• Verbal and conceptual skills

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• Both educators and artists saw children as
  learning basic drama concepts and skills, and
  recognized clear connections with emergent
  literacy priorities.
• Alan Yaffe, Ph.D.

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• Residency activities, both by artists and
  teachers, have a positive impact upon the
  learning of emergent literacy skills and other
  developmentally appropriate skills and behaviors
  among children served.
• Yaffe

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Arts Education Partnership

• Task Force on Young Children and the Arts, a
  national response
• Early Childhood, Literacy and The Arts
• --a common language
• --guiding principles
• --resources and recommendations

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One and one makes two. Thats great. Whats a
two? --Bill Cosby
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Guiding Principlesfor Development of Arts-Based
Programs and Resources for Young Children

• 1. Focus The Child
• --learn in, through, and about the arts
• --active engagement
• creating, participating in/performing,
  responding
• --quality arts experiences
• -are developmentally appropriate
• -reflect childs culture

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Guiding Principles

• Focus The Arts Experience
• --maintains the integrity of the artistic
  disciplines
• --is meaningful to children
• --follows a scope and sequence
• --connects to early childhood curriculum/practice
• --may contribute to literacy development

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Guiding Principles

• Focus
• Learning Environments and Adult Interactions
• --development of qualtity programs/resources
  shared among arts and education professionals,
  parents/caregivers
• --connect with community resources

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Recommendations

• Development of early childhood arts standards
• Professional development
• Research

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Outcomes

• Head Start outcomes and NAEYC performance
  objectives in the arts
• Music and Dance Early Childhood Standards
• Programs literacy and arts
• Research Critical Links

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There is always one moment in childhood when
the door opens and lets the future
in. --Graham Greene
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• Recent Initiatives
• Pages emergent literacy
• Arts Link arts learning plus literacy
• stART smART Network distance learning

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• stART smART Network--
• An on-line community to support teachers and
  artists
• Communication, resources, evaluation
• Developmentally appropriate arts learning
• Emergent Literacy and Childrens Literature Links

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• New Research Opportunities
• Learning and Artistic Expression
• Arts, Literacy, and Language
• The Arts and Young Children
• New Practices and Attitudes of Classroom Teachers
• New Technologies and Learning
• Professional Teaching Artists in Schools

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• You are a marvel.
• --Pablo Casals

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• RESOURCES
• www.wolftrap.org
• www.aep-arts.org
• Making Creative Connections Young Children and
  the Arts
• Critical Links Research Compendium
• www.arts.gov
• Imagine! Introducing Your Child to the Arts
• www.menc.org
• Pre-K Music Standards
• www.ndeo.org
• Pre-K Dance Standards