Preparing Educators for Arts Integration - 9780807758489

Preparing Educators for Arts IntegrationPlacing Creativity at the Center of Learning\nAuthor(s): Gene Diaz, Martha Barry McKenna\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Teachers' College Press, United States\nImprint: Teachers' College Press\nISBN-13: 9780807758489, 978-0807758489\nSynopsis\nThis resource examines professional development approaches from across the United States to help schools and allied arts groups integrate the arts into an already crowded K12 curriculum. The authors document the purposes and structures of a broad spectrum of current efforts and programs. Several of these programs have been in place for decades, thus demonstrating their sustainability and effectiveness. Emphasizing the value of collaboration among teachers, artists, educational leaders, and community partners, the book draws on the broad range of experiences of the authors, who came together as a working group of the Art Education Partnership. Readers will find strong, empirically tested models of arts int.