Arts Centered Education Program
The Missouri Alliance Arts Centered Education (ACE) promotes and supports an arts across the curriculum approach to teaching and learning in Missouri's schools. This program enables schools to receive customized onsite professional development at no cost to the school.
Arts in Education leads to:
Engaged learners
Deeper understanding
Greater retention of content
Positive classroom and building climate
Joy in teaching and learning
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Arts Across the Curriculum practitioners may need:
support in learning more about arts areas outside their field of expertise
to learn about ways the arts can be included in lesson/unit designs
to learn how to allow students to construct and demonstrate understanding while engaging in a creative process.
Ideally, arts integrated instruction is designed from local curricula and aligned with the Missouri Learning Standards. Through an arts integrated approach to teaching and learning, students engage in a creative process which connects the art form and at least one other subject area and meets evolving objectives in both
Teaching artists, who specialize in arts integration, will customize the training received, based on the professional learning needs of the building. MAAE Arts Integration Specialists will meet with building leaders and determine which services will best meet the needs of the adult learners in a given situation.
Large group
Professional development for the full school staff can take the form that best meets the needs and professional learning objectives for the school. We suggest at least one session of professional learning for the entire staff to help those unfamiliar with arts integration become acquainted with the concept, and increase the likelihood of individuals from the school becoming a part of the current arts integration co-hort group or an arts integration practitioner of the future.
Cohort
Within the cohort group, professional learning often looks like:
the local educator identifying local curricular content to be delivered
the teaching artist and local educator designing lessons within a unit of study from the local curriculum, which reflect Missouri Learning Standards
the teaching artist facilitating any need for additional learning or experience as it relates to a given art form included in the unit of study.
the teaching artist modeling lessons utilizing an arts integrated approach in delivering instruction
the local educator and teaching artist co-teaching a given lesson from the unit of study
the teaching artist providing coaching services for the local educator in regard to delivery of instruction
Program Evaluation
We want to ensure that the program meets the stated objectives for the school, and collect evidence for our funders about the efficacy of the program.
Elements of the program evaluation will be determined for each school based on their objectives. It may include items such as:
examining teacher and student attitudes
student engagement
content assessment
retention of content knowledge
building climate data
If you want to become an ACE school or if you just what to learn more, please contact our Arts Integration Specialists,
Lauren Hanahan and Kristi Ponder at ace@moaae.org.