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The Artists in the Schools (AITS) Program is now under the jurisdiction of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (HSFCA). Once a year, public and public charter schools may apply for arts grants of up to $6000 per school.

Schools are required to develop the grant application with an approved teaching artist from the Artistic Teaching Partners Roster. Many of these artists have been trained to integrate their art form with other core curriculum areas, such as language arts, math, social studies, and science, meeting both Fine Arts and other core standards.

The application deadline for the 2010-2011 AITS Program is May 1, 2010. Selected schools will be notified as soon as funding is secured (possibly in Fall 2010). Schools funded with AITS grant money must comply with the AITS program requirements.

Interested public schools that wish to apply for AITS Grants for the 2010-2011 school year should review the following documents.

2010-2011 AITS Information click here: AITS_Cover_Letter__Info__Criteria_10-11.pdf
2010-2011 AITS Application Forms click here: AITS_Residency_Grant_Application_Forms_SY10-11.doc
2010-2011 AITS Press Release click here: AITSPress_Release_March2010.doc
2010-2011 Artistic Teaching Partners Roster: Teaching_Artist_Roster_feb2010.pdf









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Toolkit

The ARTS FIRST Essential Arts Toolkit: Hawai‘i Fine Arts Grade Level Guide for the K-5 Classroom Teacher, 2nd edition is a unique document designed for use by elementary classroom teachers. Scarcity of instructional time and the pressures of an already crowded curriculum necessitate an approach to the arts as an integral part of elementary classroom learning.



This Toolkit is a supplement to the Hawai‘i Department of Education's Arts Instructional Guide and facilitates student achievement of the Hawai‘i Content and Performance Standards III. At each grade, the Toolkit provides framework charts to link the arts to other core areas, sample lessons, assessment tasks, instructional strategies, and resources. Teachers are encouraged to integrate key arts concepts with other content areas. Educators, teaching artists, and parents may download the Toolkit here as pdf files.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Thinking in Threes

Arts as Tools

Arts Strategies

How to Use the Lessons

Kindergarten

Grade 1

Grade 2

Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 5

Appendix 1: Hawai‘i Department of Education - General Learner Outcomes, Fine Arts Standards and Benchmarks

Appendix 2: Assessing Student Learning in the Arts

Appendix 3: Glossary of Arts Vocabulary

Appendix 4: Resources - Charts & Templates

Unit and lessons templates (Word document)

Grade 1



Arts as Tools

Use the ARTS AS TOOLS to energize the classroom, spark thinking, and create classroom community. These tools can be adapted to any grade level and used at any time.


Deb Brzoska, National Arts Assessment Specialist, explains how the arts as tools promote active learning.

The Flow State



The arts as tools can put students in the flow zone, an optimal learning state. As proposed by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, flow is full immersion and focus of awareness on the activity at hand.

Arts as Tools Overview



Think of the arts as tools to help students observe details, recognize and form patterns, and represent different ideas.

The following collection of hands-on exercises can be dowloaded as a pdf in Arts as Tools



Magic Box



In Magic Box, the teacher and students pass around an imaginary box from which they each remove an imaginary object that is defined by how they use the object.

Mirrors



During Mirrors, students imitate movement at the same time as the teacher or leader.

Symmetrical Border Design



Students create designs using lines, shapes and colors in Symmetrical Border Design.

In the Echo dance and drama strategies students repeat rhythm, movements and sound after the leader.

Echo: Definition




Echo: Body Percussion




Echo: Movement




Echo Do What I Do, Say What I Say




Character Mirrors



Students imitate movement in Character Mirrors at the same time as the teacher or leader. The teacher/leader pantomimes different types of characters.

Melodic Quick Draw



In Melodic Quick Draw, music stimulates thoughts and memories as students become more fluid in their thoughts through quick drawing.


Arts Strategies

An arts strategy is a process that can be applied to different content in a variety of ways to achieve specific learning objectives.

The dance and drama strategies described below were used in the Hawai`i Arts Alliance's Arts & Literacy for All (ALA) Project, funded by a 2006-2010 US Department of Education Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) grant. The ALA Project focused on the effects of the arts strategies on students' reading comprehension. These strategies were implemented by teachers from all grade levels in four elementary schools.

Teachers used four primary arts strategies to enhance reading comprehension and vocabulary instruction -
1. Snapshot
2. Tableau
3. Expressive Movement
4. Observe, Describe, Interpret and Evaluate

Many Arts as Tools activities - Mirrors, Echo and Domino - were also taught and used in the ALA Project.

Before using any of the strategies, students are first introduced to the concepts of personal space and freeze.

Space Bubble helps students define their personal space and how they should move safely in and through space.


The concept of freeze is a basic skill that all students should know and practice. Students should be able to respond quickly to the "freeze" prompt. Move and Freeze is a strategy that can be done in place or through space.

Move & Freeze: A Definition




Move & Freeze: Shapes




Move & Freeze: Different Movements




Move and Freeze can be used with music - moving while the music plays and freezing when the music stops.

Move & Freeze: With Music




Zookeeper is a drama version of move and freeze. It is more literal with the students pretending to be animals and the teacher in role as the zookeeper.


Snapshot is a quick individual frozen body shape. It challenges students to think quickly and creatively yet requires control and focus. This strategy can be used to explore many ideas such as emotion, actions and vocabulary.

Snapshot: Definition and Process




Snapshot: Exploring Emotions




Snapshot: Exploring Occupations




Tableau is a frozen image with two or more people that represents an idea, theme or specific parts of a story. A tableau requires a period of planning time within the group unlike the snapshot which is quickly improvised.

Expressive movement represents ideas that can be literal or abstract. It consists of -
- body shapes
- movements
- sequences of shapes
- sequences of movements
- freezes.
It can be done individually, in partners, in groups of three or more.

Expressive Movement: Different Ideas