Who We Are
What we want to do is provide an unique role to classroom teachers. This role would be a mix of an Artist/Teacher/documenter/collaborator.
Promoting Art integration in core subjects by collaborating with both the classroom and art teacher we are creating an avenue for students to succeed in their understanding or core concepts.
In doing this we also want to connect innovative ideas/theories taught in our attended Art Education program at the University of Missouri. Providing new resources for classroom teachers.
Promoting Art integration in core subjects by collaborating with both the classroom and art teacher we are creating an avenue for students to succeed in their understanding or core concepts.
In doing this we also want to connect innovative ideas/theories taught in our attended Art Education program at the University of Missouri. Providing new resources for classroom teachers.
How We Started
Very recently the University of Missouri's art education program made some unique changes to the student teaching experience. Since special content areas are certified K-12, teacher candidates in the past have split their internship time down the middle and spent half the time in a secondary (or middle) and the other half in elementary (or middle). With the new changes teacher candidates get the opportunity to divide the time into 12 weeks of student teaching in the level the candidate is most interested in and then 4 weeks of an Artist in Residence experience in a different school. This is obviously a great opportunity for artist teachers to explore and strengthen our Artist side while still sharing art knowledge with students. However, this is a great opportunity for cooperating schools for collaboration and Arts integration. Artist in residence is an extension of the student teaching internship at the University of Missouri. Dr. Kathy Unrath transformed what originally was meant to give a more diverse understanding of teaching art to multiple age groups of children and turned it into an opportunity to tap into the artist side of the “Artist Teacher”. Artist in residence allows the art educator to come to a school as an artist, bringing their own aesthetic style of art to the classroom as a learning tool for the students. Our experience in this program led us to create and share this model to other schools. We want to promote Arts Integration.
Since we were inspired by our unique artist in residence experience, we would like to share this model with the education community.
Heather "Kippy" Kippenberger
Judith (Ali) Pemberton
|