1. Introduce AHCMC’s Arts Integration Residency (AIR) Program

2. Define Arts Integration Residency 3. Demonstrate The AIR Links to Academic

Curriculum 4. Demonstrate How AIR Enhances

Student Learning5. Discuss Keys to Success

Session Objectives:

The Arts & Humanities Council of The Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery CountyMontgomery County

32 year-old 501(c)(3) designated by law to disburse arts and humanities funds appropriated by Montgomery County Council

Mission to take an active role in the social and educational welfare of the County’s children and youth by providing high-quality arts experiences

Arts Integration Program

• Teaching Artist Roster (TAR) – A List of Pre-Screened Teaching Artists Trained in Arts Integration

• Grants for Arts Integration Residencies Using the TAR – Awards of $750 to $3000/ Applications accepted twice/year.

How Does It Work?• Grade Level• Academic Focus• Arts Discipline

TAR

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Your Residency

What is an Arts Integration Residency?

Arts Integration uses the fine and performing arts as primary pathways to learning. Arts integration differs from traditional arts education by its integration of an arts discipline with traditional academic subject, such as math or reading.

Arts Integration Residency refers to a multi-visit program where the artist is in “residence” at your school for several days to several weeks.

Shadow Puppetry and Aesop’s

Fables

Sample Residency

Motivating Oral Language

& Literacy Skills through Drama• Sargent Shriver ES• Pre-K - K • Academic Subject: Language Arts • Arts Discipline: Creative Drama, Music• Artist: Ali Oliver• Classroom Visits: 24 visits (8 classes, 3 times) plus

staff workshop and performances

Sample Residency

• Marylanders in Mixed Media: Visual Biographies of Famous Marylanders

• Rockledge Elementary• Grade 4• Academic Subject: Social

Studies• Arts Discipline: Visual Arts• Artist: Marcie Wolf-Hubbard• Classroom Visits: 3 visits with

1class

AIR Links to Academic Curriculum

• Heroes and Leaders in Mixed Media

• Glenallan Elementary School

• Grade 2• Students working on

reports/biographies of a chosen hero or leader

AIR Links to Academic Curriculum

• Social Studies Grade 2:• Standard 5- History• Students will use historical thinking skills to understand how individuals and

event have changed society over time.

• Standard 6.0 Social Studies Skills and Processes• Students shall use reading, writing and thinking processes and skills to gain

knowledge and understanding of political, historical and current events using chronological and spatial thinking, economic reasoning and historical interpretation by framing and evaluating questions from primary and secondary sources.

• B. Learn to Write and Communicate Social Studies Understandings• Indicator 1. Compose oral, written and visual presentations that express

personal ideas, inform and persuade

AIR Links to Academic Curriculum

Artist’s Overall Objectives:• For Students: Provide arts-based

learning experiences that stimulate oral language and reading comprehension among PreK-K students, particularly ELL students

. • For Teachers: Provide and model

strategies to integrate drama and music into classroom instruction.

AIR Links to Academic Curriculum

MD Voluntary State Curriculum: Reading/Language Arts (PK-K)

Students will:• Listen to and discuss a variety of fictional literary texts 3.0 A.1.b. • Retell the story in their own words by sequencing the main

events 3.0 A.6.a.• Understand, acquire, and use new vocabulary 1.0 D.3.c• Participate in oral presentations 7.2.a

AIR Links to Academic Curriculum

MD Essential Learner Outcomes in THEATRE: Students will:• Identify and apply the basic acting tools and skills of

imagination, voice, body, cooperation and concentration to participate in a group drama III.A.2, IV.C.3.

• Use accurately and respond appropriately to drama cues and vocabulary IV.C.3.

• Analyze when the acting tools and skills were used appropriately and effectively IV.A.1,2,3., IV.C.3.

How Do AIR Enhance Student Learning?

Arts Integration Residencies provide students with

• Opportunities for academic exploration and

• Inquiry within a creative and experiential framework.

Enhancing Student Learning

• Students are empowered to experiment and explore

• Students who struggle with reading/testing demonstrate comprehension through the art form

• Students draw more immediate, powerful personal connections to text/content

• Students explore subjects in depth

and make “their own”

6 Keys to Success

1. Establish clear goals and objectives2. Design residency to achieve

goals/objectives—no cookie-cutter residencies

3. Communicate and collaborate4. Plan together for adequate time, space,

resources, and staff investment5. Be flexible  6. Assess and Document

Arts Integration Residencies

• Enliven curriculum and

• Inspire students and teachers with their depth and richness.

Resources

• AHCMC• Grants: http://www.creativemoco.com/grants/guidelines• Teaching Artist Roster:

http://creativemoco.com/directories/teaching-artist-roster

• Donors Choose http://www.donorschoose.org/

• Maryland State Arts Council: AiE Artists-in-Residence Program http://www.msac.org/