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Certificate Requirements
12 units of AISCP coursework must be completed within a 3-year period.
MANDATORY COURSEWORK (80 hours) :
- Core Class A: Strategies and Resources for Arts Integration (30 hours; 3 units)
- Core Class B: Collaborative Curriculum Design (30 hours; 3 units)
- Core Class C: Ongoing Assessment Strategies and Applications: Making Learning Visible, Studio Habits of Mind, Rubrics and Portfolios (20 hours; 2 units)
- (All courses require formative or summative on-line documentation of classroom/school site applications and learning)
ELECTIVES: Participants may take arts courses of their choice, including:
- Performing Arts skill building classes
- Visual Arts skill building classes
- Teaching with Contemporary Art
- Teaching with Museums and Visual Thinking Strategies
- English Language Development in the Arts
*All courses must be completed with a passing grade; student work is graded pass or fail.
The first of its kind in the United States, the Arts Integration Specialist 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.
The Arts Integration Specialist Program offers core courses and electives, with the option to acquire continuing education units through Mills College, and work toward an Arts Integration Specialist Certificate. The Arts Integration Specialist Certificate qualifies teaching artists, credentialed arts teachers, multiple subject and single subject credentialed teachers to provide leadership, as well as pedagogical and content knowledge to professional learning communities within their school and district contexts.
The Arts Integration Specialist curriculum gives participants experience in the following:
- working knowledge in their artistic discipline
- curriculum development using Teaching for Understanding frameworks and Visual and Performing Arts Standards as guides
- collaboration skills
- knowledge of contemporary art forms
- strategies for arts integration
- assessing student learning in the arts and making learning visible
- partnering with others for school accountability
- showing evidence of learning through public presentation