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a novice teaching artist how to begin
designing professional development
workshops; rather, it would give early and
mid-career teaching artists a resource
to strengthen and improve their ongoing
work. For that reason, we chose to focus
on the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of arts integration
professional development for classroom
teachers (‘How do I best reach classroom
teachers to ensure they transfer the
learning into their classroom?’ ‘Why do
classroom teachers need time to discuss
or practice facilitating the strategies or
techniques?’). As the teaching artists
themselves would best know their own
art form, we minimized the ‘what’ (‘What
dance strategies work best for first graders
studying the rainforest?’).
The Arts Integration Framework, as it came
to be known, consists of three sections
and nineteen various-sized components
with select supporting materials that help
guide how to make the best use of the
components. We challenged ourselves to
be brief without sacrificing clarity to offer
teaching artists a basic understanding of
each component and encourage them to
seek additional resources (many of which
are included in the Framework) to deepen
their knowledge and skill.
Summer/Early Fall 2018
The Framework also includes:
Workshop Design: Suggestions for how to
include the components in PD experiences
of various sizes
Component Checklist: Questions focused
on the components that help fine-tune
or revise a workshop. The most popular
feature on the site with a downloadable
version.
Resources: Downloadable templates,
articles, and examples, as well as the
increasingly popular video examples of
teaching artists demonstrating how they
address and incorporate the components
in their own workshops.
We made the resource freely available
because we desire to support the work
of our local teaching artists, but we also
felt this could serve as our contribution to
achieving that bigger dream. In addition,
an online resource can grow and change
over time. We hope that teaching artists
everywhere will take advantage of the
site. We encourage all readers to give us
feedback about the site and its usefulness.
And in our ideal world, we hope that
teaching artists will agree to share their
own valuable resources through the site.
Daniel A. Kelin II, Honolulu Theatre for Youth Director of Drama Education since 1987, was a 2009 Fulbright-
Nehru Senior Research Scholar in Education in India and has had fellowships with Montalvo Arts Center,
Theatre for Young Audiences/USA and the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America. Daniel served
as president of AATE and is on the Teaching Artist roster of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing
Arts and has been affiliated with theatres, schools and youth organizations in American Samoa, the
Marshall Islands, Pohnpei, Guam, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. His latest book, The Reflexive Teaching Artist:
Collected Wisdom from the Drama/Theatre Field was awarded AATE 2015 Distinguished Book of the Year.