Preparing Educators for Arts Integration: Placing Creativity at the Center of Learning

by Gene Diaz, Martha Barry McKenna

Overview

This resource examines professional development approaches from across the United States to help schools and allied arts groups integrate the arts into an already crowded K–12 curriculum. The authors document the purposes and structures of a broad spectrum of current efforts and programs. Several of these programs have been in place for decades, thus demonstrating their sustainability and effectiveness. Emphasizing the value of collaboration among teachers, artists, educational leaders, and community partners, the book draws on the broad range of experiences of the authors, who came together as a working group of the Arts Education Partnership. Readers will find strong, empirically tested models of arts integration to inform curriculum development and teacher professional learning.

“This book affirms an ideal of helping more school children and communities realize the importance of arts integration and how it can make a difference in the classroom, improving the preparation of all for work and life.”
—From the Foreword by Jane R. Best, director, Arts Education Partnership

“We owe the authors a debt of gratitude for bringing varied perspectives together in this important book.”
—Madeleine F. Holzer, former director of educational development, Lincoln Center Institute.

Contributors: Sibyl Barnum, Elaine Bernstorf, Karen Bradley, Amy Charleroy, Colleen Hearn Dean, Lisa Donovan, Eric Engdahl, Don Glass, Elizabeth F. Hallmark, Jean Hendrickson, R. Scot Hockman, Joyce Huser, Julia Marshall, Una McAlinden, Susan McGreevy-Nichols, Mary Ann Mears, Kathy O’Dell, Pamela Paulson, Susan J. Rotkovitz, Lori Snyder, Terry Sweeting, and Peg Winkelman

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807775813
Publisher:	Teachers College Press
Publication date:	03/24/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Gene Diaz is a visual artist, international educator, and professor of distinguished achievement at Lesley University providing faculty development and arts program evaluation. Martha Barry McKenna is university professor and director of the Creativity Commons at Lesley University and is chair of the Higher Education Task Force of the Arts Education Partnership.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jane R. Best vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction Gene Diaz Martha Barry McKenna 1

Part I Theory and Practice in Arts Integration 17

1 Using the Creative Process as Pedagogy Gene Diaz Martha Barry McKenna 19

2 Arts Integration and Standards Alignment Amy Charleroy Pamela Paulson 29

3 Using Curriculum Design Frameworks for Arts Integration Don Glass Lisa Donovan 41

Part II Statewide Models of Arts Integration 53

4 Whole-School Models of Arts Integration: Oklahoma A+ Schools Jean Hendrickson 55

5 The Evolution of Arts Integration in Maryland: Working in Consortium Mary Ann Mears Kathy O'Dell Susan J. Rotkovitz Lori Snyder 65

Part III Education of Leaders in Arts Integration 77

6 Preservice Teachers Advocating for the Arts Eric Engdahl Peg Winkelman 79

7 Principals Art Leadership Program Una McAlinden 91

8 Learning from an Arts-Savvy Charter School Principal Elizabeth F. Hallmark 103

Part IV Arts Specialists in Arts Integration 113

9 Championing the Way to Effective Arts Integration Joyce Huser R. Scot Hockman 115

10 Professional Learning in and Through the Arts Sibyl Barnum 125

Part V Arts Integration in Practice 137

11 SLANT: Professional Development in Science and Arts Integration Julia Marshall 139

12 Dance Literacy: A Pathway to Arts Integration Karen Bradley Susan McGreevy-Nichols 149

13 The Resonant Heartbeat: Folk Dance, Physical Literacy, and Arts Integration Colleen Hearn Dean Terry Sweeting 159

14 Kansas: Pioneering Arts Integration Elaine Bernstorf 169

Conclusions and Recommendations: Different Strokes for Different Folks Gene Diaz Martha Barry McKenna 181

About the Contributors 198

Index 203

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This book affirms an ideal of helping more school children and communities realize the importance of arts integration and how it can make a difference in the classroom, improving the preparation of all for work and life."
—From the Foreword by Jane R. Best, director, Arts Education Partnership

“Gene Diaz and Martha McKenna have tackled the question of how to prepare teachers for the task of arts integration, something of proven value for all students, and not often included in formal teacher education. We owe them a debt of gratitude for bringing varied perspectives together in this important book.”
—Madeleine F. Holzer, former director of educational development, Lincoln Center Institute

“As compelling and promising as arts integration is, it can't fulfill its promise until we create professional development models that demonstrate its core principles, including interdisciplinarity, deep collaboration, rigorous reconceptualization of the nature of curriculum, and the value of reflection. The authors take on this challenge and, in the process, illuminate critical elements of any rigorous contemporary professional learning experiences—pre- or in-service."
—Steven Seidel, Harvard University

“McKenna and Diaz have assembled a robust collection that gives the reader a view of several arts-integration professional learning programs offered across the country. This will prove to be an indispensable resource to educators, teaching artists, and community partners who provide arts education programs.”
—Barbara Shepherd, director, School and Community Programs, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Editorial Reviews

"Leaders in the schools and districts should be required to read this book to gain awareness and knowledge of arts integration across disciplines and begin to view the arts as a crucial component of education."

—Teachers College Record

From the Publisher