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Teacher / Artist partnerships that help students integrate HOT Season for Young People performance experiences with their lives and learning, and Arts Integration professional development for educators. ArtSmart means:
Team-Teaching ArtSmart Study Units - Of the many resources offered to HOT teachers, leading an ArtSmart Study Unit with a Teaching Artist is your ultimate option for maximizing the educational value of an HOT offering. Study units include three TA visits to your classroom. Educators in Metro Nashville Davidson County and other area schools may request this value-added option for any HOT Season for Young People offering bearing the ArtSmart Focus Work icon.
Creating effective Educator / TA partnerships - Each study unit participant attends two prerequisite events and receives additional materials to promote successful partnerships:
- Refresher workshop (TA activities, Focus- Work-of-Art preview and grade-level brainstorming) Participants earn 3 professional development hours recognized by some school districts.
- Study Unit Planning Meeting at your school
- ArtSmart Study Unit Calendar
- HOT Performance Guidebook
- Ongoing communication with TA and Contact Teacher
- HOT Survey (with artist residency section)
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Developing your ability to integrate the arts in everyday instruction.
Offered twice a year, TPAC Professional Development supports the aspirations of educators and artists who believe that the arts are a powerful way of knowing and essential to educating the whole child. The foundation of this training is Aesthetic Education, a highly effective philosophy and practice of arts integration developed by Maxine Green and Lincoln Center Institute and nurtured and refined in Nashville for over 30 years.
We thank Gaylord Entertainment for their generous sponsorship of ArtSmart.
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"Aesthetic education... is an intentional undertaking designed to nurture appreciative, reflective, cultural, participatory engagements with the arts by enabling learners to notice what there is to be noticed, and to lend works of art their lives in such a way that they can achieve them as variously meaningful. When this happens, new connections are made in experience: new patterns are formed, new vistas are opened. Persons see differently, resonate differently..."
-- Maxine Greene, from Variations on a Blue Guitar, The Lincoln Center Institute Lectures on Aesthetic Education (2001) |
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