PLaiC – Experience, Reflect, Apply
This past week, a group of teachers that work in my district got together for our monthly (3 months strong!) PLaiC meeting. This is a PLC (Professional Learning Community) session that centers around Arts Integration. The format for this session was different than that in the past and I believe it was very effective. We [...]
What Teachers DO When They are NOT with Students
It can be quite a discussion when negotiations come around. How much “prep” time do we allow teachers to have? How much “free” time should they get a week? How much time away from students do they really need each day?
Regardless of how much time we teachers have during the school [...]
PLCs and PLNs – Go Us!
Over the past few months, I have become involved in two very powerful teaching communities: a PLC and a PLN. Both of these collaborative groups have changed my teaching in very positive ways, mostly because the premise behind each of them is to gain knowledge through other professional educators, AKA [...]
PLaiC – May 2010
PLaiC: EXPERIENCE, REFLECT, APPLY
A group of Amesbury teachers PreK-12 meet as a PLC (Professional Learning Community) to discuss arts integration and its impact on students.
PLaiC
PLC centered around Arts Integration
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PLaiC – Process, Play and Balance
PLaiC is now a new venture for me. It is a Professional Learning Community centered around Arts Integration. What a wonderful example of community. In this case it was a community of teachers getting together to talk freely about their profession and their passion for seeing true arts integration in their teaching. [...]
Community Built Through Music
March is Music in Our Schools month. So let’s focus a couple of blogs on it! It is not an accident that we chose “community” as the focus for this month either, because music is a very powerful community builder!
Years ago, I came across this wonderful quote:
“No art form creates community as quickly as music.” [...]
Poetry from Workshop
Inspired by Chopin’s Prelude in A Major Op.28, No. 7 (48 sec.)
This is a special collection of poems composed by workshop participants at the TIC Workshop “Building Creativity, Community and Character Through Music” on Saturday 3/6.
These and other works can be found under the Resources tab – Examples of Work
Enjoy!
The Mountain
Tip [...]
Arts Integration PLC
Teachers collaborating, sharing ideas and resources to bring all the arts into their teaching.
This week’s focus – Building Community through the Arts.
March 2010 – Teacher Feature Blogger – Ayanna Gallant
This month, The Inspired Classroom is happy to announce our teacher feature blogger, Ayanna. She is a teacher, a musician and a poet!
Ayanna Gallant is a graduate of UNH with a B.A. in Music Education. She is a Master of Education candidate of Lesley University where she is studying Curriculum and Instruction Through Integrated Arts. [...]
