Hawaii Arts Alliance

Artists in the Schools Program (AITS)

Public and public charter schools receiving Artists in the Schools funding for SY2011-12 will soon receive their award notification. Applications for SY2012-13 will be available in early spring 2012. At that time, schools may apply for arts grants of up to $6,000 per school.

The Artists in the Schools Program is under the jurisdiction of the Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (HSFCA) with implementation support provided by Hawai`i Arts Alliance. Arts education is a top priority in the HSFCA Strategic Plan: “To increase opportunities for arts education and experiences, especially for pre-K-12 grade level students.” The AITS Program provides an integrated approach to implementing the Fine Arts standards through residencies with qualified teaching artists 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.

Schools funded with AITS grant money must comply with the AITS program requirements -

• The grant application is developed with an approved teaching artist from the Artistic Teaching Partners (ATP) Roster. Teaching_Artist_Roster_feb2011.pdf

• Learning experiences support Hawai`i Department of Education’s Content and Performance Standards III, Fine Arts Standards.

• A residency with an Artistic Teaching Partner engages a core group of students for eight or more sessions for elementary schools OR five or more sessions for secondary schools (core group = same group of students for all lessons). Each session is a minimum of 30 minutes for lower elementary, and 45 minutes for upper elementary and above. Applications proposing fewer than the recommended sessions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

• Teachers are expected to work with the Artistic Teaching Partner to build capacity at the school. Professional development for teachers, led by the teaching artist, is expected as part of the residency.

Interested public and public charter schools that wish to apply for AITS Grants for the 2012-13 school year should check this site in March 2012 when information will be available -

2012-13 AITS Grant Application Information:
2012-13 AITS Grant Application Form:
2012-13 AITS Grant Application Budget Form:
2012-13 Artistic Teaching Partners Roster:

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.

Nonverbal communication Shape Face Walk

Representing a strong character through the shape of one's body and facial expression can be done without talking. Arts in the classroom offer accessibility to students who may not be proficient in the English language.

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

Art Bento Program @ HiSAM

The Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (HSFCA) is pleased to offer the Art Bento Program @ HiSAM, a museum education program of the Hawai`i State Art Museum.

The Art Bento Program @ HiSAM is a standards-based museum education program, especially developed for kindergarten through sixth grade students and their teachers. The theme, “Responding to Art”, is supported by an introductory professional development session for teachers. The unique four-part museum experience emphasizes fine arts literacy and is led by qualified teaching artists from HSFCA’s Artistic Teaching Partners (ATP) roster.

There is no cost to schools to participate in the program. In addition, the program also provides funds for bus transportation to the museum.

Hawai`i Arts Alliance is now accepting applications from Oahu public and charter elementary schools for school year 2012-2013. See below to download the informational flyer and Application form. The applications are due Friday, April 13, 2012.

Please contact Lei Ahsing at 533-2787, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you have further questions.

HSFCA_Art_Bento_memo_2011-12.PDF
Art_Bento_Program_FY2011-12.pdf
Art_Bento_Application_FY2011_12.doc