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Teacher as Curator: Formative Assessment and Arts-Based Strategies
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Donovan, Lisa; Anderberg, Sarah – Teachers College Press, 2020
"Teacher as Curator" provides a roadmap for using creative strategies to engage both educators and students in the learning process. Focusing on key qualities of culturally and linguistically responsive arts learning, chapters specifically demonstrate how arts integration strategies and formative assessment can be a catalyst for change…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
Collaboration around Facilitating Emergent Literacy: Role of Occupational Therapy
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Asher, Asha; Nichols, Joy D. – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2016
The article uses a case study to illustrate transdisciplinary perspectives on facilitating emergent literacy skills of Elsa, a primary grade student with autism. The study demonstrates how a professional learning community implemented motor, sensory, and speech/language components to generate a classroom model supporting emergent literacy skills.…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Occupational Therapy, Case Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach
Cross-Discipline Teaching for English Learners
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Upczak-Garcia, Anne – Educational Leadership, 2012
The author works as a biliteracy teacher in a bilingual school that serves students from K-5th grade. She and her coteacher provide instruction in both English and Spanish to 4th and 5th graders. They have two language arts blocks so that students receive literacy instruction in both their native and second languages, and they teach math, social…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Teachers, Team Teaching
Using Movement to Teach Academics: The Mind and Body as One Entity
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Minton, Sandra – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2008
This book is developed to help teach curriculum through the use of movement and dance, while giving students a chance to use their creative problem-solving skills. The text describes a step-by-step process through which instructor and students can learn to transform academic concepts into actions and dances. Theoretical information is also…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Dance Education, Movement Education, Learning Theories
Where Literacy and Science Intersect
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Hapgood, Susanna; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – Educational Leadership, 2007
Inquiry-based science instruction can provide a rich context in which to build literacy skills in the elementary grades. The authors discuss the benefits of incorporating reading, writing, and speaking into science instruction. They describe the results of research on two models for combining language arts and science--the Science IDEAS model and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Literacy, Inquiry, Elementary Education
Roles of Frequency, Attitudes, and Multiple Intelligence Modality Surrounding Electricity Content-Based Reader's Theatre
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Hosier, Julie Winchester – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Integration of subjects is something elementary teachers must do to insure required objectives are covered. Science-based Reader's Theatre is one way to weave reading into science. This study examined the roles of frequency, attitudes, and Multiple Intelligence modalities surrounding Electricity Content-Based Reader's Theatre. This study used…
Descriptors: Scripts, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Multiple Intelligences