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Why Arts Integration? |
Michele strives to use her extensive knowledge and passion for Education and the Dramatic Arts to improve classroom instruction, by coaching teachers on implementing various Arts-Integration techniques.
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Students involved in classrooms with Arts-Integration, experience the content in a creative way. Students actively engage with the text/content, developing higher level thinking skills such as synthesis and problem solving. They also gain confidence, the ability to collaborate with peers, and make creative choices.
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"Living Timeline"
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"Dramatizing Directions"
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"Vocal Health for the Educator"
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Acting in the ClassroomActing in the Classroom: Actors possess a variety of skills that transcend the art form and enhance an individual's success in many areas of life. In this residency, students will become actors, developing their actors' toolkit, and building their skills of concentration, focus, cooperation and collaboration.
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Bring your Content to LifeBring Your Content to Life: Providing curriculum-based, in-class lessons tailored to your current unit plan. Working directly with the classroom teacher, the Teaching Artist will create lessons that teach the content through the art of theatre. Students will be actively engaged in the learning process.
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What Teachers are saying about Arts Integration"There are many children who never have the opportunity see a real performance. The Shakespeare Theatre allows these students to have this experience. Having a person come to our school and engage the students in dramatic exercises and give them to opportunity to do improvisation is an incredible experience that allows them to discover a whole different side of themselves. Arts are an important part of the curriculum. They give students who sometimes struggle academically a chance to be successful in another way. It allows them to explore their creative side which fosters a sense of self confidence which they can take into their regular academic subjects. Sometimes all that students need is the self-confidence to feel like they can do anything they put their mind to."
Kathleen Miller, Language Arts Teacher 5-8th Grades St. Jude Regional Catholic School Content Copyright © Michele D. Vicino, Inc 2022
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