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Professional Learning: Studios, Stages, & Students: Real Reasons We Keep Coming Back

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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.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Professional Learning: Elements of Dance

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This webinar introduces ways to help students identify the elements of dance (body, energy, action, space, and time) and use them to explore and create. The presentation includes a discussion of how, from elementary through secondary grade levels, students can build dance skills and techniques by integrating elements of dance into their performances and by evaluating the use of dance elements.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Professional Learning: Infusing Creative Process into Middle and High School Dance Curriculum

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This workshop for middle and high school educators will connect the VDOE Dance Arts Standard of Learning strands of Creative Process and Technique and Application as they relate to dance-making. Teachers will learn tools for facilitating improvisation based on various stimuli that guides students to generate movement possibilities and then make movement choices to set choreographic phrases. The workshop will include a template for students to reflect and respond to the work of their peers. Rooted in the Elements of Dance (body, action, space, time, and energy) the activities in this workshop are applicable to all dance styles.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Professional Learning: Infusing Creative Process into Elementary Dance Education

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This workshop for all elementary educators will connect the VDOE Dance Arts Standards of Learning strands of Creative Process and Technique and Application as they relate to dance integration and dance-making. Teachers will learn tools for facilitating improvisation based on classroom content that guides students to generate movement possibilities and then make movement choices to set choreographic phrases. Clear, repeatable dance integration strategies for elementary educators will be highlighted. The workshop will include a template for students to reflect and respond to the work of their peers. Rooted in the Elements of Dance (body, action, space, time, and energy) the activities in this workshop are applicable to all dance styles. This session is for dance educators as well as general education teachers looking to begin or improve dance integration strategies.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Dance Education Observation Resource

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The purpose of this resource is to support school and division administrators in observations and coaching conversations for dance arts teachers in Virginia public schools. The strategies listed support effective instruction connected to skills and concepts of the 2020 Dance Arts Standards of Learning.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Key Features of Effective Lesson and Unit Plans

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This resource is intended to be used by educators, school, and division leadership to evaluate instructional materials for quality. When lesson plans, unit plans, and other instructional activities are from outside sources, division staff and educators may use and adapt these key features to evaluate the materials. In addition, these key features can be used as a guide for locally developed instructional materials that support the curriculum. 

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: VDOE Fine Arts

Professional Learning: Fine Arts through the Lens of Multilingual Learners

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Participants will explore resources, learn strategies, and practice instructional routines that elevate language and enhance language acquisition in fine arts classrooms. Participants will explore resources that integrate English language development into the fine arts curriculum, learn strategies to support the development of English, and practice instructional routines that elevate language in fine arts classrooms.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: VDOE Fine Arts