Teaching artists uncover language that makes visible the underlying benefits to students of their arts-based teaching.

Participants will begin by articulating their core teaching values.  They will identify and map benefits that accrue from these approaches.  Based on this mapping, TA’s will identify the effects of arts-based teaching and learning in order to document them more carefully as well as articulate common benefits across artistic disciplines.

Wednesday 3:30-5:00

Conference Strand: Curriculum and Assessment

Educators: will achieve a deepened understanding of why AIE work is beneficial for students.

Artists: will be able to articulate benefits students experience through arts-based learning.

Organizational Administrators: will understand how the benefits of arts-based learning affect students.

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Karen Fitzgerald’s paintings, drawings, and prints have been widely exhibited and collected.  She has been a teaching artist for 22 years and continues to provide consultations for a wide range of institutions on a variety of educational issues.  Currently, she is a coach for the Center for Arts Education’s Leadership in Practice and Partnership Extension programs.