Dance In Education

Hoop dance after-school programs for children grades 2 through 12. Each participant makes through own hand made hoop at the end of the program.

Jennifer is able to work with schools and classroom teachers to collaboratively design a custom residency to fit their needs and target various core curriculums.

Nationally recognized actor, teaching artist and author Eric Booth has developed the following definition of the teaching artist: “A teaching artist is a practicing artist who develops the skills, curiosities, and habits of mind of an educator, in order to achieve a wide variety of learning goals in, through, and about the arts, with a wide variety of learners.”

According to the Association of Teaching Artists’ the role of the teaching artist is an integral part of the overarching arts education constellation, which includes:

• Short and long-term school and after-school residencies

• Arts experiences, including in-school performances by professional artists, as well as field trips to studios, galleries, museums, and performances.

• Integrating the arts throughout the curriculum as a way of engaging all types of intelligence’s in the learning process

• Arts education standards backed up by ongoing curriculum-based arts instruction in K-12 grades.

• Discipline-specific learning in the arts: visual art, dance, theater, music, poetry

• Higher education and on-going development for the professional artist, as well as the professional artist who is also a teaching artist

• Lifelong learning in the arts through community arts events, classes and workshops

Arts Integration is an APPROACH to TEACHING in which students construct and demonstrate UNDERSTANDING through an ART FORM. Students engage in a CREATIVE PROCESS which CONNECTS an art form and another subject area.