Overview
Arts Impact trains classroom teachers to teach standards-based arts concepts, skills and techniques, and to infuse the arts into other core curricular areas. Training is experiential, sustained and practical, supporting successful change in teacher practice and improvement in student achievement.
By providing step-by-step strategies to teach in and through the arts, Arts Impact helps teachers bring art into their everyday classroom experience. Arts Impact teachers learn to teach to the whole child and to reach students who may struggle with traditional approaches to learning.
Course content includes:
- dance, theater and visual arts foundational concepts, skills and techniques
- arts-infused teaching and learning strategies
- criteria-based performance assessments
- classroom management strategies for teaching in the arts
- planning, teaching, and assessing practicum with an Artist Mentor coach
- lesson plan development
- planning for sustainability
Learn more about the original Core Model.
Learn more about the U.S. Department of Education Arts Education grant projects.