Mr. James Palmarini
Pondering the Arts Education Lunchbox III: It's time to party!
Posted by Sep 17, 2010 0 comments
Mr. James Palmarini
Enough pondering. On with our Arts Education Week party. To wit, let’s celebrate:
- Students first, last, and always as learners, advocates, and our guides to the future.
- Student learning in the arts that gives ownership and choice and therefore empowerment.
- Training programs for arts educators that embrace changing modes of learning, new technology, and other tools that teachers and students need to succeed in the twenty-first century.
- Seminars, workshops, and breakout sessions that always remember to add students to the butcher block paper checklist of stakeholders.
- Arts space architects and builders that understand the need for facilities to be safe, and simultaneously messy and orderly enough for creativity to thrive.
- Initiatives like the P21 Arts Framework that suggest the learning of skills beyond the arts discipline while supporting the core content of the domain itself.
- Thoughtful advocates who recognize there is no single strategy to “make the case” for an arts program before school boards, legislators, administrators, or parents.
- Collaborating arts educators who work to integrate the arts with other core subject areas in order to deepen their own and students’ understanding of the world we live in. Read More
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