Core Courses

Strategies and Resources for Arts Integration (30 hours; 3 units) ~ This hands-on course focuses on art and art integrated teaching, curriculum development, and assessment using educational tools like Teaching for Understanding and Studio Thinking frameworks from Harvard’s Project Zero. Students develop curriculum that targets deep understanding and draws upon contemporary art practice from a diversity of perspectives and cultures. How to create visual arts and interdisciplinary arts strategies will be the focus.

Participants analyze existing curriculum and look at contemporary art practice to inspire their own curriculum development. They investigate the different ways that art helps people formulate questions, think about, synthesize, and express knowledge and learning. Participants also analyze curriculum delivery and implementation. Using observation protocols to help focus inquiry and discussion, the course examines a variety of arts learning experiences. At the end of the course, each participant has a binder of resources, as well as curricula and assessment tools created by the class that they can put into use in the classroom and share with their school or organization.

Participants understand:
• the breadth and depth of what art integration can be.
• how to develop, assess, and deliver curriculum that targets deep understanding and draws upon contemporary art practice from a diversity of perspectives and cultures
• how art making can connect to the knowledge, purposes, forms, and methods of other disciplines (developing powerful and authentic arts integrated learning experiences)
• how to develop learning communities to share knowledge and propel learning across disciplines and grade levels
NOTE: This course is a requirement for Arts Integration Specialist Certificate Program

Collaborative Curriculum Design (30 hours; 3 units) ~ This course builds on the arts integration course to help teachers and teaching artists build their own units and curricula. Each student must be actually teaching in a classroom or community program to take this course. Each participant develops and teaches an arts integrated unit during the course. Protocols, tools and frameworks are employed as needed to focus conversation on quality practice. At each session, new information connected to participants’ units are presented. Participants’ will be creating their own curriculum and actually teaching, conducting ongoing assessment, and reporting on their own learning.

Participants understand:
• how to create arts integrated units that are engaging, rigorous and teach thinking skills
• how to assess learning in an ongoing manner adjusting strategies as needed
• how to use and practice Teaching for Understanding, the Studio Habits of Mind and documentation to assess student learning and their own.

NOTE: This course is a requirement for Arts Integration Specialist Certificate Program

Ongoing Assessment Strategies and Applications: Making Learning Visible, Studio Habits of Mind, Rubrics and Portfolios (20 hours; 2 units) ~ Participants learn ongoing assessment strategies, including Studio Habits of Mind, Making Learning Visible and documentation, rubrics, and portfolios. They develop protocols, tools, and applications that are useful for evaluating and deepening their own learning and their students’ learning.

Participants understand:
• how to incorporate ongoing assessment into their teaching practice
• how to document students’ learning
• how to document and record their own learning

NOTE: This course is a requirement for Arts Integration Specialist Certificate Program

Art Integration Specialist Certificate Program ~ The first of its kind in the United States, the Arts Integration Specialist Certificate Program provides K-12 teachers and teaching artists in public schools the insight, understanding, and skills they require to provide engaging and effective art and arts-integrated lessons across all areas of curriculum and to advance professionally. Participants leave equipped with real classroom applications focused on achieving improved student and teacher learning across all subjects.

For more information on all these programs call 510-670-4557

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