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Teaching Artists

Internal Resources for AC Artists
 

Administrative Resources

Residency Maps, our Residency Map Guide and The ArtsConnection Framework.

 
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    Guide for Residency Map

    Erin Orr ArtsConnection's Artist Mentor and Curriculum Specialist walks us through how to use, submit, and get paid for your Residency Map
  • The ArtsConnection Framework

    The ArtsConnection Framework shares the ABCs of liberatory and joyful learning as well as our research-based teaching approaches to create socially just learning environments that strengthen the diverse voices of NYC’s children and youth, cultivating their arts and academic skills for success in a changing world

    The ArtsConnection Framework
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    NYS Arts Blueprints

    The Blueprints for Teaching and Learning in the Arts provide teachers with a path to follow for developing curriculum in all arts disciplines, and provide benchmarks for what children shou...
    Arts Blueprints
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    Planning Meeting Guidelines

    In this resource, you will find questions to guide your planning meeting so that you can gather necessary information about the students and build collaborative and respectful relationship...
    Planning Meeting Guidelines
 

Arts & Learning

ArtsConnection has been researching how to support all learners through the arts since 2001. Our decades of experience in this field have provided us with vast resources to support you in the classroom.

 
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    Creative Learning Loop

    The Creative Learning Loop
    In making original artistic work, students continuously collaborate, share and use feedback to revise. Engaging in the Creative Learning Loop builds stude...
    Learn More on Creative Learning Loop
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    Lowering the Affective Filter Through the Arts

    When students lower their affective filter in the arts, they make themselves more open and available for learning.
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    Focus on Process

    Support learning by treating students as artists who are in charge of their own creative process, and observing how they work rather than evaluating the outcome
    An Artist's Work Process
  • Effectively Using Visual Supports

    Tips for Artists on how to use visual aids to support understanding and engagement. Not all visual supports are created equal.  Each type of visual support can serve a different purpose.  The visual can be a literal representation of a word or concept (such as showing an image of a beach because the story takes place in that setting) or conceptual in that the v...

    Visual Supports
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    Ready to go Visuals

    Download, print, or share these common vocabulary terms below for Visual/Media Arts, Theater, Music, Literary Arts, Dance, and Photography/Filmmaking for use in your next arts residency.
    Visual Vocabulary Cards
 

Supporting Multilingual Learners (MLs)

The artistic process brings MLs out of their shells and engages them deeply. With a more complete understanding and a few tricks up their sleeves, Teaching Artists can create a rich learning experience for students who are learning English.

 
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    Understanding the Experience of MLs

    Multilingual Learners immersed in an English-dominant school setting have a complex set of intellectual and emotional reactions. Professor Jennifer Stengel-Mohr leads teachers and teaching artists through unpacking their students’ experiences.

    Learn More about Language Learning and the Arts
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    Language Learning Levels

    What are realistic expectations and how do I differentiate to support MLs? This chart explains the terminology schools use and shows the levels in the language learning process.
    Language Proficiency Levels
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    Traits of a ML Supportive Lesson

    While good teaching practice impacts all learners, specific supports are necessary to enhance instruction for MLs.
    Strategies for a supportive lesson
 

Supporting Students with Disabilities (SwD)

Planning and Facilitating an Inclusive Lesson takes a bit of intentionality. We highly recommend collaborating with the Classroom teachers as they will have many supports and strategies already in place and have knowledge of their individual stu...

 

  • Strategies for Supporting SwD

    These strategies can be used for general inclusive planning, for specific preparation for a class after learning about your students, or to make adjustments based on the behaviors that you...
    Skill or Behavior Based Strategies
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    Inclusive Language Guide

    Words matter. Consider the way you are speaking to and about students regarding all aspects of their identities. Insensitive or outdated word choices can reinforce stereotypes.
    Inclusive Language Guide
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    Collaborating with the Adults in the Room

    There are a lot of adults in ICT and self-contained classrooms It is important to know who they are and how you can collaborate with them.
    Collaborating with Classroom Professionals
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    Accessible Lesson Planning Checklist

    This lesson planning list can support you in building a lesson that is inclusive and engaging for all students.
    Lesson Plan Checklist
 

External Resources

 

These are resources from outside of ArtsConnection that can support you.

 

  • NYC PS Supporting Transgender and Gender Expansive Stude...

    These guidelines offer protocol and best practices for supporting transgender and gender expansive students. These guidelines apply to NYC PS staff.
    Guidelines
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    Developmental Stages of Children

    This resources offers the developmental stages and miles stones of children so you can plan appropriate lessons and activities.
    Developmental Stages Resource

  • Protocols for Non-Local Law Enforcement

    NYCPS and the Mayor’s Office are committed to protecting the right of every student to attend public school, regardless of immigration status, national origin, or religion. NYCPS does no...
    NYC PS Protocol
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