Participants will gain resources and strategies focused on how the fundamentals of theatre can connect students to their learning, their peers, and themselves. Participants will understand how this connection creates a relevance and rigor that gives their students the skills necessary for success in and out of the classroom. Participants will also understand the role the state standards can play in creating these connections—specifically regarding the Five Cs.

This presentation provides an overview of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning, instructional resources, and professional learning resources available to all Virginia music educators. 

This webinar provides an overview of the 2020 Theatre Arts Standards of Learning.The purpose of this webinar presentation is to provide background knowledge for understanding the 2020 Theatre Arts Standards of Learning, including the "big picture" and important background information and context of the Standards, and show the instructional and professional learning resources available to support implementation of the Standards in Virginia classrooms.This content was updated in August 2024

This webinar provides an overview of the 2020 Visual Arts Standards of Learning, and is specifically presented for teachers of secondary visual arts.VDOE fine arts program staff will share state and national resources, guiding principles, and timely information for fine arts instruction that are up to date for the 2024-2025 school year. This session is especially helpful for new fine arts educators and would be a good refresher for experienced fine arts educators. This presentation was updated in August 2024.

This webinar provides an overview of the 2020 Visual Arts Standards of Learning, and is specifically presented for teachers of elementary visual arts.

Dr. Angela Ammerman shares rehearsal strategies specifically geared toward English Learners (ELs). Learn about resources and strategies to provide language support and engage English Learners in the music classroom. 

This slide deck covers key considerations for writing a fine arts curriculum and key features of an exemplary fine arts curriculum. A sample approach to curriculum writing is offered, and curriculum resources are provided. This slide deck is intended to support division leaders and individual educators who are writing a curriculum aligned to the 2020 Fine Arts Standards of Learning.

This webinar and presentation is a previously recorded session, Resources from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.Webinar Description: Join VMFA educators to learn about the new opportunities, resources, and supportive measures developed by Museum staff members in response to the challenges faced by teachers, students, and parents for the 2020-2021 school year. Learn about the major exhibition Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities, and find out about fall opportunities for online Professional Development, distance and digital learning options, remote access to VMFA’s encyclopedic collection, and more.

Drawing on walls, banging on pots, dressing up, singing and dancing like everybody’s watching are ways we get ourselves out into the world. In this webinar, we’ll discuss creative thinking and joy in arts learning for students and teachers. We’ll laugh about best intentions, consider best practices in a new age, and celebrate transforming K-12 students into die-hard arts enthusiasts! Clayton Singleton is a Virginia artist, illustrator, author, and arts educator.

s workshop will focus on the basics of incorporating guitar and ukulele into your music program.

There are specific strategies that can assist us as we plan and present instruction to students with disabilities and differences. Accommodations can be transferred to music classrooms and ensembles. Through careful adaptations and modifications when needed, we can truly meet the needs of all students.

Lesson Demo: Kwame Shaka demonstrates one of his most popular lessons in this active/interactive workshop. We will explore the socio-historical roots and rhythmic movement of the Gumboot Dance, an art form created by forced laborers in the mines of South Africa in the 19th century.  Learn how tempo, rhythm, and pattern are used to create a percussive and socially impactful dance. Find the potential in using the power of collective movement to build community in your classroom.Talk Back: Hear Kwame Shaka speak about his 30+ year career as a performing artist and dance educator. Kwame Shaka will discuss his origins in dance, highlights of his career and challenges faced as a professional in showbusiness and education. Learn about his Triumph of Disruption pedagogy and its correlating progressions of success in the classroom. During the talk back, participants are encouraged to ask questions and to add comments to further discussion and bring forth new perspectives.

Artist habits of mind help students reflect on their work by considering learning as a process. These frameworks make thinking visible and, with consistent and pervasive use, develop habitual cultures of thinking in the classroom. Artist habits of mind help students reflect on their creative work by considering learning in the arts as a multilayered process.

In the first part of this session, Jeffrey Allison from VMFA On the Road will share works and educator resources from the traveling state-wide exhibition: A View from Home: Landscapes of Virginia. The paintings, photographs, woodblock prints, and engravings from the museum’s permanent collection represent various styles and periods. The second part of the session will focus on strategies for developing deeply engaging units for K-12 visual arts education using the exhibition as a starting point for deeper exploration. This presentation and collaborative workshop session will highlight project-based and place-based learning approaches to visual arts education.

This session will use various cognitive routines (such as "See-Think-Wonder") to guide educators on how to lead classroom discussions of printed music which uses traditional and nontraditional notation, with young students. Concepts and strategies covered in this session will focus on the Music Standards of Learning of the strand: Critical Thinking and Communication.

Selection of aural Italian grammar lessons (podcasts). Grammar examples and dialogs are built upon the escapades of Arlecchino, Pulcinella, and other masks of the Italian Commedia dell'arte. Lessons feature topical grammar discussions, dramatic readings, pdf grammar notes ... and general audio zaniness.

In this recording and slide deck, VDOE staff explain the 2020 Visual Arts SOLs and the latest resources and supports available as of August 2024.

Students will learn the process of the scientific method by using whole group interaction. Students will get a front row seat at learning the steps in the scientific method process. They will learn to use their scientific method checklist to make predictions on what they think will happen when you conduct the three different experiments. This can be used over the course of one week.Day one: hedgehog experiment Day three: volcano experiment Day five: rocket launch 

Students will view a whole group video about responsibility and we will discuss being responsible with various things such as information, technology, and classroom items (the sensory items) We will also discuss taking turns and sharing, etc. Students will then be split into 5 groups and rotate through various sensory items. These items include a calm down corner, stretchy fidget strings, pop it squeeze balls, multi colored quiet fidget toys, and slow rising squishy balls. Throughout these rotations, the teacher will remind students of the responsible behaviors expected.