Teaching Curriculum Through the Arts Ebook

• What if the learning of every child was designed to discover and nurture that special individuality which each of us possesses?
• What if every classroom were a place of exhilaration and fresh wonder, each day a celebration, each teacher a fount of inspiration?
• What if every child expressed their highest potential in school ... and then ventured forth to build a better world?
• What if coming to school each morning were a joy for teachers and students alike?
• What if an educational system might be devised through which every teacher were encouraged to use his or her special gifts to guide and motivate, to monitor, and to reveal the universe in which we live and move and have our being?

Here's what you'll find in:

• Theatre Forms for Use in the Classroom: narrated pantomime, improvisation, story theatre and written scripts .
• The Elements of Creativity -- how to use space, time, light, movement color, line, shape, form, sound, pattern, rhythm and texture to put together your own Creative Classroom.
• Improvisation, taking role playing to the next level, emphasizing plot, character and setting.
• Designing the Arts-Based Thematic Curriculum -- specific strategies to make the connection between literacy, the Multiple Intelligences, Standards and curriculum content through the visual and performing arts.
• Creative Drama, games and activities to prepare K-8 students to successfully act out stories, events, concepts and ideas in all curriculum areas.
• Bibliography, Resource Lists, Index and much, much more.
• Artists in the Classroom -- getting the most for you and your students out of working with guest artists in the school, the five levels of arts residencies, and the art of teacher and artist co-mentoring.