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Notes from Provost Arts Education Integration Seed Grant Meeting Arts Educators – Thursday Group Meeting – 3.18.10

Participants: Roberta Sloan, Executive Director, Temple Theatre and SEED Grant Lead Amy Hodgdon, Education Director, Philadelphia Young Playwrights Renee Hobbs, Faculty, Department of BMTT, Temple University Annemarie Hindman, Faculty, Department of Education, Temple University Margie Salvante, Executive Director, Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia Karen Bond, Faculty/EdM Coordinator, Department of Dance, Temple University Marc Holmes (in lieu of David Mitchell), Institute of Disabilities, Temple University Jill Harrison - Snyder, Research Asst / SEED Grant, MFA Directing Candidate, Temple University

Additional Participants: Peter Reynolds, Musical Theatre Director, Temple Theatre Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, Faculty, Temple Theatre Carol Royer, Faculty, Department of Arts Education, Temple University Girija Kaimal, Senior Research Associate, Temple University/SEED Grant Lead David Mitchell, Executive Director, Institute on Disabilities, Temple University Ellen Linky, Director of Clinical Education, Temple/SEED Grant Lead
 * Roberta reiterated the meetings’ purpose: to discuss the creation of a course of study and syllabus for two arts integration courses (one for primary and one for middle school) through the additional utilization of media and the awareness of special needs students
 * Roberta also proposed the question: how does one teach teachers to teach arts integration?
 * Renee reiterated staffing concerns from previous meeting and Robert responded to this by developing this as a response to once the courses are created
 * Margie introduced the idea of naming a Production Manager for the Course Development/Arts Integration process and Roberta responded by nominating Margie Salvante and Amy Hodgdon as ‘Co-Team Leaders’ for the Course Development Process in Group #1 /Middle School and then Annemarie Hinton and Karen Bond as the ‘Co-Team Leaders’ for the Group #2 /Primary School (Based on Karen’s need to leave the SEED Group, perhaps we could name a new co-leader for the Primary School Group?)
 * Annemarie shared about a course in the Department of Education for Early Childhood Program (Cathy Soundy, Program Head and Jim Burns, University Advisor) which gives teaching majors an opportunity to learn how to integrate the arts within in a core study
 * Roberta distinguished that the courses we are interested in creating are arts integration from an arts perspective not from a general perspective
 * The group reiterated target audiences: 1. Future Teachers and 2. Current Teachers
 * The group reiterated the purpose of teaching teachers how to create their own arts integrated curriculum (future teachers) as well as giving them a skill set through methods in order to create their own courses of study
 * The group explored the idea of developing Team Teaching/Collaboration/Partnering skills (how to share these skills with their colleagues) within the pedagogy for the course – ex. Teaming teachers together to create arts integration
 * Marc Holmes shared that Diane Bryan from Society of Disability Studies is presenting a paper on how to teach teachers to teach in an inclusive environment and wondered how this might be helpful or present within our arts integration pedagogy
 * Roberta reiterated that the Grant Project process will now continue into Fall 2010
 * The group shared a proposed question for all: What would the intended learning objectives be for the courses? / Group suggested that all participants post their response to the WikiSpace
 * Renee offered to email the group with a reiteration of working/using the InterArts Wiki Space
 * The group decided that there will be two pages on the InterArts WikiSpace, one for the Primary Grades Arts Course Development and one for the Middle School Grades/Arts Integration Course Development
 * The group requested that all members post to the appropriate pages and then the Team Leaders will compile and shape all posts/suggested information and bring to the next meeting so that the group can continue brainstorming learning activities, assessment, and resource materials
 * Karen will email or post to the InterArts WikiSpace the GenEd Syllabus Template so the group can use this as a template while developing the courses and syllabi (Based on Karen’s need to leave the group, is there someone else who might be able to obtain and share the GenEd Syllabus Template?)
 * Marc requested that the completed course development/syllabi work be shared with Julie Kessler (Faculty, College of Education) for disability/inclusion awareness
 * Amy offered to serve as a gender awareness leader for the course development
 * Margie offered the questions: for arts integration teachers - How do we teach ‘art forms’ in the general education classroom? What is the prior knowledge of the student teachers who are taking the course? Who are the students taking this course? (continuing education students, or current students who have at least one arts course pre-requisite)
 * Karen shared a new ‘dance education undergrad track’ for the Dance Department
 * Margie presented the idea that the pre-requisites for the course will be dependent upon the arts departments at Temple
 * Roberta reiterated that one group meets Thursdays and one group meets Fridays and she will serve as the liaison between both meeting groups and will also email out an updated contact list for both groups as well as a reminder of each group’s meeting schedule (Sent by Roberta 3/19).