K-8 Arts Integration Institute for Teachers 2021

Join us for a two-day K-8 arts integration institute featuring teaching artist, Randy Barron!

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts defines arts integration as "an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject and meets evolving objectives in both." Join us for a two-day arts integration institute featuring teaching artist Randy Barron where we'll explore techniques for integrating the art of movement to promote learning across the curriculum. Primary grade workshops will be presented in the morning for K-2 grade teachers, with intermediate grade workshops in the afternoon for 3-8 grade teachers.

Schedule - Day 1

Thursday, July 29th—8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

K-2: BEST Behaviors

“BEST Behaviors” Workshop, a skill-building workshop based in creative dance strategies. The workshop includes techniques for moving students from place to place, developing body and voice self-control, and managing space in the classroom. Using fun, fast-paced, and immediately useful activities make the workshop fly by, and teachers will leave with step-by-step instructions for making the classroom a safe and creative space for students to construct and demonstrate understanding through movement.

Thursday, July 29th—12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

3-8: BEST Behaviors

“BEST Behaviors” Workshop, a skill-building workshop based in creative dance strategies. The workshop includes techniques for moving students from place to place, developing body and voice self-control, and managing space in the classroom. Using fun, fast-paced, and immediately useful activities make the workshop fly by, and teachers will leave with step-by-step instructions for making the classroom a safe and creative space for students to construct and demonstrate understanding through movement.

Schedule - Day 2

Friday, July 30th—8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

K-2: Math on the Move

Through dance and creative movement activities, students become kinesthetically and visually engaged in creating number sense and developing an understanding of the important ideas underlying all of mathematics. In this activity-focused workshop, Mr. Barron leads teachers in a set of lessons that help students build their own mathematical understanding while making dances. Participants learn and practice the basic elements of dance and choreography in order to create movement solutions to mathematical problems. Teachers will leave with a comprehensive set of tools for immediate use in teaching mathematics and assessing student creative products, while helping students’ brains develop through movement.

Friday, July 30th—12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

3-8: Math on the Move

Through dance and creative movement activities, students become kinesthetically and visually engaged in creating number sense and developing an understanding of the important ideas underlying all of mathematics. In this activity-focused workshop, Mr. Barron leads teachers in a set of lessons that help students build their own mathematical understanding while making dances. Participants learn and practice the basic elements of dance and choreography in order to create movement solutions to mathematical problems. Teachers will leave with a comprehensive set of tools for immediate use in teaching mathematics and assessing student creative products, while helping students’ brains develop through movement.

Contact hour verification for CEUs is available. For more information, call 419-522-2726 ext. 252 or email [email protected].

The $125 registration fee for these courses have been waived thanks to the generosity of our sponsors: the Ohio Arts Council and Charles P. Hahn. Thank you for your support!

About Randy Barron

Randy Barron has classroom teaching experience dating back to 1980, and he has been a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist since 1995. Randy has led hundreds of professional development events for teachers and teaching artists, in forty US States, as well as in Singapore. Randy danced and choreographed professionally with dance companies from Boston and New York City to the Midwest, and he served as a founding Artistic Director of City in Motion Dance Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. Randy has a wide range of experience in education. He has been a charter school founder, a charter high school director, a curriculum writer — and even a school bus driver. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, and he is also a former volunteer firefighter and EMT. Randy has received the Coll Award of Distinction from the New Mexico Art Education Association. He lives with his wife on the Santa Fe Trail in northeastern New Mexico, just an hour’s drive from their ten-year-old, identical twin grand-daughters.