On July 15, 2008 thirty area Teaching Artists attended an eight hour workshop developed by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. entitled ARTISTS AS EDUCATORS: LAYING A FOUNDATION: DEFINING ARTS INTEGRATION. The workshop was lead by Sean Layne, Kennedy Center artist.
The workshop unpacked the definition of arts integration and gave teaching artists the opportunity to uncover the characteristics of quality integration. In addition, the session included participation in an arts-integrated lesson and examined how arts-integrated instruction aligns with current learning principles and education’s predominant learning theory.
Area Teaching Artists were inspired and challenged by the workshop. Teachers, contact the Education Department to learn how you may work with a teaching artist in your classroom.
The Kennedy Center’s Working Definition for Arts Integration:
Arts Integration is
an APPROACH to TEACHING
in which students construct and demonstrate
UNDERSTANDING
through an
ARTISTIC MODALITY.
Students engage in a
CREATIVE PROCESS
Which connects
an art form and another subject area
and meets
IN-DEPTH OBJECTIVES
In both.
