1 00:00:00,00 --> 00:00:28,400 [music] 2 00:00:28,410 --> 00:00:31,500 Honestly, the Arts Integration Network 3 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,500 has changed my love of teaching tremendously. 4 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,100 This has been the first year that I have been excited about coming to work to teach my kids 5 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:44,000 because I know my kids are excited about learning and that they are actually learning and 6 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:45,900 learning in ways that they want to learn. 7 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Arts Integration has changed the climate in my classroom in terms of the fact that 8 00:00:52,100 --> 00:00:56,300 students are really engaged. They love the idea that I can use their vesture 9 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:05,600 which is a physical way of showing vocabulary words. They love the idea that they're a part 10 00:01:05,700 --> 00:01:08,200 of the conversation in whatever we're making. 11 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:12,400 Before attending the Arts Integration Network professional development, I thought 12 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:19,800 Arts Integration was just bringing arts into the classroom through singing, dancing, I just that that's all that it was. 13 00:01:19,900 --> 00:01:28,700 My idea of Arts Integration was more drawing, sketching, using paints arts and crafts. It was very visual. 14 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:33,600 It was not a physical interpretation of what art can be in the classroom. 15 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:38,100 [music] 16 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:46,600 I would now define it as integrating arts in the classroom, not just bringing a game here or there, it's also integrating into the curriculum 17 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:56,500 students are learning. [clip audio] When I say solid, get into a shape of a solid.5-4-3-2-1 18 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:02,200 Make sure you stay on your two feet! Make sure you're not squishing anybody!Very careful... 19 00:02:02,300 --> 00:02:06,400 When I say liquid, you're going to begin to move away from each other 20 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:17,500 And when I say gas, you're going to move really fast. 21 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:27,000 And now Arts Integration to me in the classroom is taylored more towards the children using their bodies to show me a definition for example. 22 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:32,600 or articulate to me their problem solving. It's using their body to comprehend. 23 00:02:32,700 --> 00:02:41,300 Probably one of the most noticable things when you first walk into a session, is the level of student engagement. 24 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:48,800 Just how focused they are and how much enjoyment they are getting from the interaction between themselves and the coach. 25 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:55,500 and just how attentive, how much they retain, after their interaction with the coach. 26 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:06,200 But this is sort of a new exciting frontier in Arts Education where we take a fine arts subject like theater, and we combine that with the four core subjects 27 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:15,600 ELA, Social Studies, Math and Science, and use those art forms as a method to teach content of those core subjects. 28 00:03:15,700 --> 00:03:22,100 When I use Arts Integration in the classroom, as a teacher, it makes me feel like I'm the fun teacher again. 29 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:30,200 It's enjoyable. My class not just, of course they enjoyed it before, I like to beleive, but they enjoying much more. I've seen 30 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:32,600 it show up in their test scores as well. 31 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:41,300 The teachers that are involved in the Arts Integration Network are learning how to do Arts Integration from the Alley Theater's teaching artists, who are masters in their craft. 32 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:51,800 And what's great is they come in and have 16 hours of professional development embedded in the classroom, where it's not just a sit and get with their peers, but they're actually modelling. 33 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:57,700 They're co-teaching and they're teaching teachers in the network how to do Arts Integration. 34 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:04,200 We learned a lot of different things, fun things, eye opening things, things I really wanted to use in the classroom. 35 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:19,400 One thing I really enjoyed is we would learn a particular game, or something we could use in our content, and we were actually able to see it, integrated used in a classroom. 36 00:04:19,500 --> 00:04:30,100 I'm very excited that we began this partership with the Alley by the Alley bringing teachers into the classroom to deliver the Staging Stem but now we're actually partnered with them to train. 37 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:38,700 our own teachers to use those prinicples in the classroom. And I think that it's huge becuase our teachers are learning innovative strategies. 38 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:49,100 They're teaching and learning.In Fort Bend, one of our big goals is being innovative, and providing an engaging learning environment. We talk a lot about inspiring students. 39 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:56,400 And equipping students, and that begins by inspiring and equipping teachers. So I think any teacher of any experience level 40 00:04:56,500 --> 00:05:04,800 would be inspired to go sit in a class about Arts Integration, learn some new strategies, things they never have even thought of before 41 00:05:04,900 --> 00:05:11,100 and them to bring them to the classroom and use them in a way to help teach English, math, science, social studies. 42 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:17,500 in new ways to really take the learning in the classroom to a whole new level. 43 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:34,500 [kids] Up, down, I'm pulling on a pulley. [teacher] solid [kids]particles are packed closely together. 44 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:39,400 [teacher]liquid. [students unintelligible] [teacher] Good. 45 00:05:39,500 --> 00:05:44,500 What I would say to a teacher that is thinking about using Arts Integration 46 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,100 in the classroom is Do It. Try It 47 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,900 I also thought at the beginning there was no way this is going to work. 48 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,600 It's more than worth the compromise of changing a few things in your classroom. 49 00:05:55,700 --> 00:06:00,200 becasue the outcome far outweighs what you have to change in the classroom. 50 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:02,000 So if you'd like to find out more about 51 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:04,400 our Arts Integration and Professional Development 52 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:08,600 Activities, Check us out on the Alley Theatre website 53 00:06:08,700 --> 00:06:12,400 Just click into Education and and there's a lot of information about how 54 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:13,500 to contact us. 55 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,400 We look forward to working to working with you 56 00:06:15,500 --> 00:06:20,000 and we hope that you enjoy learning about what we have to offer. 57 00:06:20,100 --> 00:06:23,800 to the Houston area schools, and individual teachers 58 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:28,700 and our students. 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