The support materials for The Arts in Every Classroom: A Workshop for Elementary School Teachers are available here for download as PDF files. To download PDF files, you will need a free copy of Acrobat Reader.

Complete Printable Guide (PDF)

Introduction (PDF)

Program 1. What Is Art?

• Printable Guide: Program 1 (PDF)
• Survey (PDF)
• Reading: Cirque du Soleil (PDF)
• Reading: Quidam (PDF)

Program 2. Responding to the Arts

• Printable Guide: Program 2 (PDF)
• Handout: Criticism: Purposes and Process (PDF)
• Handout: Jean Cocteau's Scenario for Parade (PDF)
• Reading: Cirque du Soleil (PDF)
• Reading: Criticism (PDF)
• Reading: Parade (PDF)
• Reading: Quidam (PDF)
• Reading: Vaudeville (PDF)
• Reading: Listening Map for Parade (PDF)
• Reading: Listening Map for Quidam (PDF)
• Reading: Setting Up Your Discovery Stations (PDF)

Program 3. Historical References in the Arts

• Printable Guide: Program 3 (PDF)
• Handout: Criticism: Purposes and Process (PDF)
• Handout: Summary of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are (PDF)
• Reading: Costumes Used in Program 3 (PDF)
• Reading: Alwin Nikolais (PDF)
• Reading: Cirque du Soleil (PDF)
• Reading: Quidam (PDF)
• Reading: René Magritte (PDF)
• Reading: Role-Play (PDF)
• Reading: Surrealism (PDF)

Program 4. Creating a Multi-Arts Performance Piece

• Printable Guide: Program 4 (PDF)
• Handout: Elements of the Hero’s Journey (PDF)
• Reading: Orff Instrumentarium (PDF)

Program 5. Designing a Multi-Arts Curriculum Unit

• Printable Guide: Program 5 (PDF)
• Handout: Developing a Unit of Study (PDF)
• Handout: Indicators of Enduring Ideas/Understandings and Essential Questions (PDF)
• Handout: Enduring Ideas/Understandings Worksheet (PDF)

Program 6. The Role of Assessment in Curriculum Design

• Printable Guide: Program 6 (PDF)
• Handout: Evaluating Performance Tasks Worksheet (with sample) (PDF)
• Handout: Performance Tasks Worksheet (with sample) (PDF)
• Handout: Performance Tasks Rubric Worksheet (with sample) (PDF)
• Reading: Criteria for Planning Multi-Arts Instruction (PDF)

Program 7. Three Schools, Three Approaches

• Printable Guide: Program 7 (PDF)
• Handout: Ridgeway Elementary School (PDF)
• Handout: Drew Model School (PDF)
• Handout: Kingsbury Elementary School (PDF)
• Reading: Roles of Arts Specialists and Classroom Teachers (PDF)
• Reading: Comprehensive Arts Education (PDF)

Program 8. Building on New Ideas

• Printable Guide: Program 8 (PDF)
• Reading: Factors for Arts Education Success (PDF)
• Reading: Research on Arts Education (PDF)