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Fourteen 30-minute lessons
Produced 2003
School-use rights: one year
Teacher In-service / art
Teacher Guide (available online)
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http://www.pbs4549.org/itv

This video workshop provides new ideas about working with the arts for K-5 classroom and arts specialist teachers. The series shows workshop leaders from the Southeast Center for Education in the Arts working with Learner Teams — teachers, principals and arts specialists — from three elementary schools. The Learner Teams work through a curriculum unit based on a multi-arts performance piece by Cirque du Soleil. Classroom segments show school children engaged in the same lessons. 

Learner Team members then begin to design their own arts-based units and return to their schools to put into practice what they have learned. Web and print materials provide context and activities for using the videos and workshop sessions. Audio and video demonstration materials needed to teach the classroom lessons in Programs 1-4 can be found on the Classroom Demonstration Materials video, which is provided free to buyers of the set of workshop videos.

1. What Is Art?
2. Responding to the Arts
3. Historical References in the Arts
4. Creating a Multi-Arts Performance Piece
5. Designing a Multi-Arts Curriculum Unit
6. The Role of Assessment in Curriculum Design
7. Three Schools, Three Approaches
8. Building on New Ideas
9. Working With Local Artists
10. Bringing Artists to Your Community
11. Students Create a Multi-Arts Performance
12. Borrowing From the Arts to Enhance Learning
13. Leadership Team
14. Three Leaders at Arts-Based Schools