By Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland and featuring essays by Linda Frye Burnham, Chrissie Orr and Carol Ng-He
This collection of articles is for teachers who would like to explore working with artists in their school classrooms. It begins with “23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer,” which addresses intriguing problems teachers are grappling with and matches them with the special skills and innovative problem-solving that artists use in their work every day.
“23 Questions” is followed by three gripping stories about artists working in schools, conducting programs that integrate beautifully with existing curriculum and meet state education standards. Published by Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer
By Linda Frye Burnham
Artists are working with teachers to tackle the “tough-nut” questions they are facing. Here are some of those questions, based on needs of teachers in education-reform projects.
They Won’t Dance, Don’t Ask Them
By Linda Frye Burnham
Choreographer Celeste Miller engages problem students by using dance in a Natural History class.
Catching Magic in the Los Padillas Water Catchment Project
By Chrissie Orr
Visual artist Chrissie Orr inspires elementary-school students to design a water catchment systm in the arid Rio Grand Valley.
Exploring Cultural Understanding along the Silk Road
By Carol Ng-He
As a creative response to the attacks of 9/11, two theater artists of Syrian and Pakistani ancestry take Chicago Public Schools students on a cultural journey across Asia.
Writer Bios
Resources
Links to organizations and individuals who can help answer the 23 questions
Afterword
Brief Tips for Teachers, acknowledgements, comments, contact
How can I get this book in other formats? I dont’ have Kindle, or the others you mention. I DO have a Mac computer but I dont’ know about the book feature you have here. Help! I want to get this asap for use in a class I am teaching if possible.
Michele – If you visit the Kindle Store on Amazon you can download a free Kindle Reader app for your Mac or Windows computer, or even for your iPhone or iPad that will let you read Kindle books. You can also get the book through the iTunes store using your Mac iTunes software. That version can be read with Apple’s free eBook Reader for iPhone or iPad. Finally, if you visit the Smashwords store they also sell the book in a PDF format that you can read from any computer.
I would like to use this piece in an education course I teach at a community college called Art in Education. I don ‘t have the funds to pay for each student to have a downloaded copy. Is there some way I can arrange to use this for a flat fee perhaps?
It’s such a great tool. If not, I’ll send them to Amazon.
Thanks for such an amazing piece for educators.
I’d also like your permission to share something about this on the AWTTT facebook page and our website. Perhaps we could trade for my using the piece in my class somehow? Just looking for ways to collaborate that end up being mutually beneficial.
I have tried for months now to make this PDF available for my students. My college bookstore nor my students are able to get smashwords to download it for them.
Most of them dont’ have access to ebook capacity let alone being able to order a PDF online like this. Can you please contact me to see if we can work out being able to use this in my Art in Education course. I see over 100 student teachers a year. It would be so great for them but I cannot figure out how to get connected so we can use it. Thanks so much.