Browsing by Subject "arts for academic achievement"

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    Arts for Academic Achievement: Long-Term Artists' Perspectives
    (Center for Applied Research and Educaitonal Improvement, 2007-09) Ingram, Debra
    This report summarizes the perspectives of a sample of artists who have been involved in Arts for Academic Achievement for multiple years. In two focus groups the artists discussed: § how the AAA projects they have been involved with have changed over time, § what they’ve learned about collaborating with teachers and integrating the arts, § the benefits of AAA that they had observed for students and teachers, § how they’ve been affected by their involvement in AAA, § the strengths of AAA, and § challenges in collaborating with teachers and integrating the arts, or, in other words, areas that could be improved.
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    Changing Student Attitudes Toward Math: Using Dance to Teach Math
    (Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, 2001-10) Werner, Linnette
    This paper describes results of a study that sought to answer the question, “How does integrating dance and math in an intense co-teaching model of integration affect student attitudes toward learning math?”. The goal of the dance/math project was to engage students in math in ways that reached students’ multiple intelligences and encouraged students to make complex connections and try new problem solving techniques. The classroom teachers, who designed and implemented the project, hypothesized that students who worked with a dancer once a week to learn math concepts would become more engaged in mathematics and have more successful and positive experiences with mathematics than students who did not work with a dancer.