ELIGIBLE: ALL RI PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL ARTS EDUCATORS (AND PARTNER TEACHERS)
The Rhode Island Arts Learning Network is accepting applications from high school arts educators for the second year of a new program ARTS PASSPORT.
PURPOSE:
- to develop equal access to professional arts experiences for all Rhode Island high school students, especially as they work toward meeting the new arts graduation requirement for 2008 and beyond:
- to encourage arts educators and their students to find interdisciplinary ways to work on PBGR requirements with other subject areas.
Professional arts experiences available will include music, visual arts, dance, and theatre at participating organizations such as Trinity Rep, RIC Performing arts series, RISD Museum, Opera Providence, First Works, Gamm Theatre, Second Story Theatre, RI Philharmonic, FusionWorks, and Festival Ballet, and we are hoping to add a small film component in the 2007-8 school year. Participating teachers and students may attend events/exhibits in any artistic discipline.
We are looking for arts educators who are creatively exploring how to meet the new arts graduation requirement, and who will be teaching at least one class of juniors or seniors next year. We are also looking for arts educators who are willing to partner with an ELA teacher on the "responding" component of the arts requirement. Additional subject area partners will also be considered, since effective student exhibitions, senior projects, and portfolios will be interdisciplinary in nature.
PROGRAM COMPONENTS:
- Free student/teacher admission to participating RI professional arts organizations' REGULAR programming, primarily evenings and weekends
- Professional development credit for teachers to meet twice, and share how they and their junior/senior students are building the professional arts experiences into the arts graduation requirement (i.e.--creating and responding in relation to the experiences--for graduation portfolios, senior projects, etc.)
- Teaming with ELA teachers whenever possible, to help them understand how the arts relate to writing and other non-arts aspects of the graduation requirement (writing a critique of a performance as a common assignment for English/theatre, for example)
- Opportunities for students to partner across districts with each other on-line through a new component of the Arts Learning Network website
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