CommonGround
2008
Mindful Innovations
Exploring
Best Practices of Embedded
Professional Development to
Develop an Arts-Integrated Curriculum
and Differentiated Instruction
Julie
Kabat
Co-director, Beyond Paper and
Pencil, Composer/Teaching Artist
Susan Griss
Co-director, Beyond Paper and
Pencil, Choreographer/Teaching
Artist
Beth
Barnes
Teacher, John L. Edwards Elementary
School
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What
are some of the "best practices"
for professional development that help
teachers incorporate the arts into
their own teaching practice and offer
differentiated instruction to reach
all their students?
Embedded
professional development can serve as
a powerful tool for school change. In
this workshop, participants will explore
what constitutes ‘best practices’ for
professional development, and see examples
that show the impact of these practices
on teaching and learning. The session
will include discussion, experiential
learning, and reflection. The three presenters
make up a collaborative team of two teaching
artists and a first grade teacher.
Conference Strand:
Curriculum and Assessment
Educators,
Education
Administrators: will
understand
the value of incorporating the arts into
teaching and have examples of how professional
development can serve this end.
Artists: will
understand
how to design a more effective professional
development program and collaborate with
teachers and other teaching artists to
do so.
Cultural Organization
Administrators: will
understand how to design a more effective
professional development program that
promotes collaboration between teachers
and teaching artists.
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Julie Kabat is
Executive Director of Concerted Effort,
a not-for-profit devoted to arts
in education. As a composer and teaching
artist, she draws on thirty years
of experience working on creative
projects in schools. Dancer Susan
Griss co-directs two of
Concerted Effort's programs, "The
Arts and Curriculum Institute," and
an ESP project, "Beyond Paper and
Pencil: Bringing Literacy to Life
through the Arts," in partnership
with Hudson Opera House and JLE Elementary
in Hudson, NY. She also has close
to thirty years of experience as
a teaching artist in the field. Beth
Barnes is the school Project
Coordinator and a first grade teacher
at JLE Elementary School in Hudson,
NY.
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