A User

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A Users Guide To

• Arts Integration

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Introduction

• Created by Marcia McCaffrey, Arts Consultant, NH
  Dept. of Education
• Recommend policy around arts education, identify
  best practices in arts education, train
  teachers in best practices
• Develop partnerships within the state to
  implement best practices in arts education

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New Hampshire K-12 Curriculum Framework for the
Arts

• Guiding document that describes what students
  should know and be able to do in the four arts
  disciplines of dance, music, theatre and visual
  arts.
• Making connections among the arts and other
  disciplines is a common standard across all four
  arts disciplines.

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Arts defined as

• Dance, music, theatre and visual art
• What about poetry, creative writing, media arts,
  film
• All schools K-12 in New Hampshire are required to
  offer instruction in music and visual art, while
  providing opportunities for students to study
  dance and theatre
• ½ credit required for HS graduation

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Imagination is more important than knowledge
Albert Einstein The etymology of the word
education indicates that its Latin root,
educere means, to draw out.
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Education

• Occurring during the regular school day-that is
  curricular.
• Teaching and learning that is standards-based.
• Relating with other arts-based organizations that
  may provide supplemental arts learning
  experiences for students.

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Educational Drivers
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No Child Left Behind Act

• Includes arts as a core subject area
• However, under NCLB, the arts are not part of the
  required state testing system or the definition
  of adequate yearly progress.
• What is tested, is taught(another presentation,
  another day)

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So, we must ask

• How core are the arts, really, in todays
  education?
• What value does the study and practice of the
  arts bring to education today?
• What is unique about studying the arts? What do
  the arts have to contribute to education as a
  whole?
• How do we know?

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How core are the arts, really, in todays
education?
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What value does the study and practice of the
arts bring to education today?
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What is unique about studying the arts? What
do the arts contribute to education as a whole?
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How do we know?
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Arts Integration

• Arts integration begins to look at these
  questions in terms of learning processes, brain
  functioning, cognition, and research.
• But first things first

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• Interdisciplinary education
• Interdisciplinary education enables students to
  identify and apply authentic connections between
  two or more disciplines and/or to understand
  essential concepts that transcend individual
  disciplines.
• Authentic Connections Interdisciplinary Work in
  the Arts
• Consortium of National Arts Education
  Associations AATE MENC NAEA NDEO
• 2002

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Interdisciplinary education is a knowledge view
and curriculum approach that consciously applies
methodology and language from more than one
discipline to examine a central theme, issue,
problem, topic or experience. Heidi Hayes
Jacobs Columbia University, Teachers College
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Same animal, different name

• Interdisciplinary education that includes that
  arts
• Arts integration
• Integrated arts
• Arts-based learning
• Arts-infused learning
• And maybe a slightly different intensity level

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What is Integrated Arts Education? Integrated
arts education is a pedagogy in which the arts
are deeply embedded within the core of
interdisciplinary learning and affirms the
indispensability of arts as a core curriculum
subject and concurrently a catalyst to learn
other subjects.  Vermont State Arts
Council http//www.vermontartscouncil.org/tabid/16
4/default.aspx January 15, 2007
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• For many teachers, interdisciplinary work is
  satisfying but challenging in that it requires
  new ways of thinking about content, students
  engagement, and often, collaborative planning
  with other teachers.
• This slide and the next two slides source
• Authentic Connections Interdisciplinary Work in
  the Arts
• Consortium of National Arts Education
  Associations
• AATE MENC NAEA NDEO
• 2002

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Valid interdisciplinary work can take many forms,
including a single lesson that features
connections between two or more disciplines
an interdisciplinary unit of study a
school-wide project involving many classrooms,
students, and teachers an entire curricular
framework.
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The creative development of an interdisciplinary
curriculum can spring from many different first
steps. For example, teachers may choose to start
with the process inherent in the art form
such as creating, responding, or performing
a particular work in the art form aesthetic
principles broad, generative themes
standards in one or more disciplines key
concepts and principles in other disciplines
shared elements, functions, or contexts across
disciplines.
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Connections

• How can you connect local arts resources and the
  work you do with students to the broader school
  curriculum?
• What interdisciplinary connections have you
  inherently made?
• What connections do students make on their own?