ONLINE Arts Integration & Professional Development
Moving Through Math & Teaching the Music of Language
We understand your need for flexibility this school year, so we offer CUSTOMIZED ONLINE Professional Development for Educators to meet the specific and evolving needs of your staff and students.
Depending on your school’s situation, your staff may be teaching in-person, online, or both. Our online professional development prepares your staff to facilitate arts integrated lessons in-person or online with students. We tailor your training to your situation.
We offer ONLINE DEMONSTRATION TEACHING. This gives your educators the opportunity to watch how arts-integrated teaching strategies are facilitated online with your own students.
All trainings are LIVE RECORDED with your team of educators and students, so that teachers or students who miss sessions are able to go back to view the recordings.
WORKSHOPS
Each of the workshops listed below has been SUCCESSFULLY PILOTED for online teaching.
Moving Through Math
Geometry: Meet the Shape Family
Four 75-minute online sessions for Teachers, Grades K-5
Six 40-minute demonstration teaching sessions with Students, Grades K-5
Avoid rote memorization and deepen students’ spatial reasoning when they use their bodies to create and manipulate 2- and 3-dimensional shapes!
Moving Through Math
Repeating Patterns: Laying the Foundation for Elementary Mathematics
Four 75-minute online sessions for Teachers, Grades K-2
Six 40-minute demonstration teaching sessions with Students, Grades K-2
Primary students chant and move as they learn to decompose patterns and discover the part-to-whole and addition concepts embedded inside.
Moving Through Math
The Patterns of Music, Movement, and Multiplication
Four 75-minute online sessions for Teachers, Grades 3-6
Six 60-minute demonstration teaching sessions with Students, Grades 3-6
Intermediate students explore the patterns of multiplication and division. Understanding key patterns of repetition and growth helps kids move past rote memorization and develop conceptual thinking.
Moving Through Math Toy Stories
Lucky the Leprechaun’s Growing and Shrinking Patterns
Three 75-minute online sessions for Teachers, Grades K-2
Four 40-minute demonstration teaching sessions with Students, Grades K-2
Primary students learn to analyze key mathematical number patterns through dramatizing Lucky’s search for hidden pots of gold!
Teaching the Music of Language
Part I: Exploring Rhythm, Reading, and Writing
Four 75-minute online sessions for Teachers, Grades K-5
Six 40-minute demonstration teaching sessions with Students, Grades K-5
Students explore the musical and rhythmic foundations of language as they master reading and writing with fluency.
Teaching the Music of Language
Reading Detectives: Discovering Sound Writing in Children’s Literature
Three 75-minute online sessions for Teachers, Grades K-2
Five 40-minute demonstration teaching sessions with Students, Grades K-2
Young readers learn to analyze children’s poetry and literature to reveal the author’s writing craft and purpose.
Teaching the Music of Language
Part 2: Word Painting to Read with Expression
Four 75-minute online sessions for Teachers, Grades K-5
Six 40-minute demonstration teaching sessions with Students, Grades K-5
Students explore the expressive and musical foundations of language as they master reading with comprehension.
Musical Adventures: A Door to Writing
Four 75-minute online sessions for Teachers, Grades 6-12
Six 60-minute demonstration teaching sessions with Students, Grades 6-12
Listening attentively to music opens the imagination and helps students develop powerful visual and sensory images. These “Mental Movies” in turn stimulate language and vocabulary development. In this participatory workshop, teachers learn how to begin with focused listening to music and then guide students through a visualization and creative writing process. Participants discover how this writing process helps students develop listening skills and visual imagery, brainstorm descriptive vocabulary, determine importance, establish mood, and learn how to structure a story outline.
TESTIMONIALS
Davenport, Iowa Kennedy Center Partnership…
“Marcia researched well and went out of her way to test the institute with ArtsBasics board and staff to provide the highest quality of online training. Many attendees were participating in their first online professional development and felt highly engaged and confident going forward with their arts integrated lesson planning.”
Greenville, South Carolina Kennedy Center Partnership…
“Marcia created a comfortable learning environment, one that allowed us the opportunity to take risks and play.”
“Marcia was very nurturing in her ways of teaching and moved at a pace that worked well for everyone to complete the activities and discussions.”
Fayetteville, Arkansas Kennedy Center Partnership…
“Marcia Daft did a great job preparing the participants in advance of the Online Institute with a series of emails outlining instructions and directions.”
FRENCH ELEMENTARY, Arts Integration School…
“Marcia Daft was very professional and SO helpful! She knew the content so well and she also has a broad knowledge of the technology to help out when needed. I enjoyed her humor and lovely connection with us!”
