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Resources
Curriculum Resources & Guides
Maestro's Music Manners
Mondavi Center Curriculum Guides & Cue Sheets
Sacramento Philharmonic Educational Resources
State of California Visual and Performing Arts Standards
Performing Arts Workshops Guide
Books
Summaries taken from www.amazon.com
Art Matters: Strategies, Ideas, and Activities to Strengthen Learning Across the Curriculum
Eileen S. Prince
This collection of ideas and lesson plans will help classroom and homeschool teachers integrate art into their general curriculum. These inventive
and effective methods use the visual arts to inspire creative writing and drama; explore math, music, science, and history; and cultivate critical
thinking skills. Art instructors will learn strategies for incorporating other areas of study into the art classroom. Ranging from thought-provoking
suggestions to concrete, hands-on lesson plans, these activities include an extensive resource list for classroom teachers without an art
background.
The Arts & The Creation of the Mind
Elliot Eisner
In this eloquent book, Eisner (education & art, Stanford) presents strong arguments for the inclusion of aesthetics as a core element of the school
curriculum for all children. Eisner's work in this area is not as well known as Howard Gardner's (e.g., Frames of Mind; Intelligence Reframed),
but since the 1960s he has been steadily promoting the ideal of diverse curricular emphases, including arts education. By analyzing student
artwork as well as vignettes of good teaching, Eisner delves into both the theoretical (often citing John Dewey, Bruner, and Lev Vigotsky) and the
practical applications of his insights. He firmly addresses assessment and evaluation in the arts, proposing a shift from the evaluation of outcomes
to the evaluation of process. He also recommends an ongoing practice of criticism, engaged in by students and teachers together in the classroom,
with the intention of improving both student work and programs of instruction. This persuasive work is recommended for academic and large
public libraries.
The Power of the Arts: Creative Strategies for Teaching Exceptional Learners
Sally L. Smith
From the founder and director of the Lab School in Washington, D.C., this enlightening book provides an alternative method for teaching academic
subjects to students with disabilities - the arts. Educators, art teachers and therapists, learning disability specialists, recreation leaders, and
parents will discover how to infuse academic material and life skills into arts activities in order to help exceptional students learn. Through
interviews with Lab School teacher-artists, readers will get step-by-step instructions for a variety of projects that enable students to see science in
woodwork, find geometry in sculpture, learn vocabulary through theater, and study math through music. Case examples illustrate that this
innovative approach builds on students' individual strengths and interests and raises their self-esteem - and that all children will learn and be
uplifted through the power of art.
Why Our Schools Need the Arts
Jessica Hoffmann Davis
This inspiring book leads the way to a new kind of advocacy one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues
instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subjects, teach our kids. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, a leading voice in the field of arts
education, offers a set of principles and tools that will be invaluable to advocates already working hard to make the case and secure a strong place
for the arts in education. She also reaches out to those who care deeply about education but have yet to consider what the arts uniquely provide.
This book is for anyone willing to brave a new terrain in which the arts are finally embraced without apology!
Lesson Plans
Arts for Learning!
Examples of arts programs, resources, and discussions that can support and animate teaching and learning.
ArtsEdge Lesson Plans
ArtsEdge has hundreds of lesson plans designed for grades K-12 focusing on all of the arts.
Crayola Lesson Plans
Find hundreds of hands-on, standards-based lesson plan ideas designed to integrate the arts into the daily curriculum and stimulate
independent thinking through visual learning. Search ideas by grade, subject, theme, and/or Crayola product
KinderArt Lesson Plans
The largest collection of free online art lesson plans and art education information on the internet.
The Lesson Plan Page
Curriculum Resources & Guides
Maestro's Music Manners
Mondavi Center Curriculum Guides & Cue Sheets
Sacramento Philharmonic Educational Resources
State of California Visual and Performing Arts Standards
Performing Arts Workshops Guide
Books
Summaries taken from www.amazon.com
Art Matters: Strategies, Ideas, and Activities to Strengthen Learning Across the Curriculum
Eileen S. Prince
This collection of ideas and lesson plans will help classroom and homeschool teachers integrate art into their general curriculum. These inventive
and effective methods use the visual arts to inspire creative writing and drama; explore math, music, science, and history; and cultivate critical
thinking skills. Art instructors will learn strategies for incorporating other areas of study into the art classroom. Ranging from thought-provoking
suggestions to concrete, hands-on lesson plans, these activities include an extensive resource list for classroom teachers without an art
background.
The Arts & The Creation of the Mind
Elliot Eisner
In this eloquent book, Eisner (education & art, Stanford) presents strong arguments for the inclusion of aesthetics as a core element of the school
curriculum for all children. Eisner's work in this area is not as well known as Howard Gardner's (e.g., Frames of Mind; Intelligence Reframed),
but since the 1960s he has been steadily promoting the ideal of diverse curricular emphases, including arts education. By analyzing student
artwork as well as vignettes of good teaching, Eisner delves into both the theoretical (often citing John Dewey, Bruner, and Lev Vigotsky) and the
practical applications of his insights. He firmly addresses assessment and evaluation in the arts, proposing a shift from the evaluation of outcomes
to the evaluation of process. He also recommends an ongoing practice of criticism, engaged in by students and teachers together in the classroom,
with the intention of improving both student work and programs of instruction. This persuasive work is recommended for academic and large
public libraries.
The Power of the Arts: Creative Strategies for Teaching Exceptional Learners
Sally L. Smith
From the founder and director of the Lab School in Washington, D.C., this enlightening book provides an alternative method for teaching academic
subjects to students with disabilities - the arts. Educators, art teachers and therapists, learning disability specialists, recreation leaders, and
parents will discover how to infuse academic material and life skills into arts activities in order to help exceptional students learn. Through
interviews with Lab School teacher-artists, readers will get step-by-step instructions for a variety of projects that enable students to see science in
woodwork, find geometry in sculpture, learn vocabulary through theater, and study math through music. Case examples illustrate that this
innovative approach builds on students' individual strengths and interests and raises their self-esteem - and that all children will learn and be
uplifted through the power of art.
Why Our Schools Need the Arts
Jessica Hoffmann Davis
This inspiring book leads the way to a new kind of advocacy one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues
instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subjects, teach our kids. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, a leading voice in the field of arts
education, offers a set of principles and tools that will be invaluable to advocates already working hard to make the case and secure a strong place
for the arts in education. She also reaches out to those who care deeply about education but have yet to consider what the arts uniquely provide.
This book is for anyone willing to brave a new terrain in which the arts are finally embraced without apology!
Lesson Plans
Arts for Learning!
Examples of arts programs, resources, and discussions that can support and animate teaching and learning.
ArtsEdge Lesson Plans
ArtsEdge has hundreds of lesson plans designed for grades K-12 focusing on all of the arts.
Crayola Lesson Plans
Find hundreds of hands-on, standards-based lesson plan ideas designed to integrate the arts into the daily curriculum and stimulate
independent thinking through visual learning. Search ideas by grade, subject, theme, and/or Crayola product
KinderArt Lesson Plans
The largest collection of free online art lesson plans and art education information on the internet.
The Lesson Plan Page
