May
30
ABC Steering Committee
Spring meeting of the ABC Institute Steering Committee (By invitation only)
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May
30
Peace Center One for Elementary and Middle School Teachers: “Arts Integration Across the Curriculum”
Designed for elementary and middle school educators, participants will engage in hands-on, arts integrated activity that connects thematically to The Lion King, showing teachers how arts-integrated classroom activities can also connect to art viewing experiences. A ticket to see The Lion King will be included in the participant registration. The institute lessons will address the […]
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May
30
Muse STEAM Institute
STEM TO STEAM: This teacher institute promotes inquiry-based learning for any classroom. The course will stimulate creativity, curiosity and innovative thought. The faculty includes Dr. Mary Lou Hightower (USC Upstate professor), Cindy Riddle (Spartanburg District One Coordinator of Gifted and Talented/Visual and Performing Arts), and a guest instructor (from the John F. Kennedy Center or […]
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May
30
Creative Teaching in the Classroom Institute (during Spoleto Festival USA)
This institute is designed to equip elementary classroom teachers (administrators and arts specialists are welcome to attend) with the skills and knowledge needed to effectively integrate the arts into the core curriculum. Participants will: Explore the stages of the creative thinking process and identify methods to engage students in creative thinking, Build knowledge of the […]
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May
30
Video Production in the Arts
(Prerequisites: CLIA and Arts Assessment Institute I Classroom Assessment) This course uses an inquiry-based approach to help teachers integrate video production and media literacy into the classroom. Participants will work to plan, shoot, and edit video, with an emphasis on designing units of study for the visual and performing arts classroom. The institute will stress […]
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May
30
Music and Technology Institute
(Prerequisites: CLIA and Arts Assessment Institute I Classroom Assessment) This course will enable certified K–12 South Carolina public school music teachers to use technology in their classes and as a tool in teaching the South Carolina Academic Standards for the Visual and Performing Arts—General Music. Each participant will be provided with appropriate equipment, a computer, […]
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May
30
Discovering the Nature and Needs of the Artistically Gifted and Talented Student
(Prerequisite CLIA) This institute is designed for the arts teacher who is interested in beginning an endorsement certificate for serving artistically gifted and talented students. Teachers will be involved in the following activities: Determine characteristics of the artistically gifted and talented students, Study procedures for identifying artistically gifted and talented students, Develop curriculum for serving […]
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May
30
Arts Assessment Institute Classroom Assessment (AAI-I)
(Prerequisite CLIA) This institute is designed to develop professional educators who will participate in the following activities: Study the purposes and uses of assessment, Align assessments with local and state standards, Construct assessments to best determine knowledge in skills and processes related to the 2010 South Carolina Academic Standards for the Visual and Performing Arts, […]
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May
30
Curriculum Leadership Institute in the Arts (CLIA)
This institute is designed for the experience arts teacher. Participants will: Develop and teach complex standards-based lesson plans with embedded assessment, Study models of best instructional practice, Review the steps in the SLO cycle, Work with colleges in your arts discipline to write an SLO that could be implemented at the classroom level. Study arts […]
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May
30
South Carolina Arts Leadership for Success Academy (SCALSA)
This institute is designed for arts teachers who have taught fewer than three years and for critical needs teachers in the arts. SCALSA emphasizes the development of standards-based arts curricula, instruction, and assessment as teachers. Pre-Institute is March 25 and Post-Institute is September 17.