Education in the Arts / GH / Fall 2023

  I  Unit: Drama Theme: Tableau   Introduction A tableau vivant, French for "living picture", is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be theatrically lit. It thus combines aspects of theatre and the visual arts.   II Learning Objectives   Understand the use of tableau in the classroom Explain in which way is tableau useful to students Gain an awareness of the elements of tableau necessary to tell a story Experience the performance of a fairy tail using tableau III Main Lesson  1   Teacher Toolkit: Tableau   Question 1 Based on this video; how can we use tableaux to teach subjects other than theater? ---------------------------------------------   2      Santa Monica Repertory Theater: How to Create a Tableau     Question 2 Based on this video; why are tableaux useful for young students? ------...

  REVIEW: VTS        I  Unit: Music Theme: E lementary Music  Introduction Music is the art of arranging sounds in time to produce a composition through the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. It is one of the cultural universal aspects of all human societies. II Learning Objectives  Understand the dynamics of a music class Explain the process of learning concepts such as beat and rhythm Gain an understanding of the usefulness of creating harmonies Experience the concept of the drumming a circle III Main Lesson  1     2   Concepts 1. Harmony the combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord progressions having a pleasing effect. 2. Rhythm a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. 3. Beat In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse, of the mensurable level. The beat is often defined as the rhythm  liste...

  I Unit: Teaching Theme: Visual Thinking Strategies  Introduction Today we are visiting the Lowe Art Museum, one of the oldest museums in South Florida, with one of the greatest collections. We will meet Mark Osterman, who will introduce us to VTS (Visual Thinking Skills), a methodology that facilitates discussion about art, in general, and about the Lowe's collection specifically. II Learning Objectives   Understand the use of VTS in the classroom Explain the meaning of VTS Gain awareness of the process and its intentions when used with school children Experience facilitating a VTS session    III Main Lesson   1     Visual Thinking Strategies: Terra Foundation Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a learner-centered instructional method used to examine and find meaning in visual art. Using a painting from the Terra Foundation collection, Samuel F. B. Morse’s iconic Gallery of the Louvre (1831–33), Yenawine facilitates a VTS discussion...

  I Unit: Behavior Modification Theme: Action Plan Introduction Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve eudaimonia: a well-lived, flourishing life. The Stoics believed that art was a representation of reality and that it should be used to promote virtue and to teach people about the nature of the world. They believed that art should be realistic and should not be used to promote vice or to teach people about the dark side of human nature. Seneca's tragedies, for instance, are creative works of fiction, but it isn't art for art's sake , as they have an underlying moral purpose.  The Stoics believed that virtue was the only good and that behavior in conflict with virtue was the only evil. When one acts with virtue and strives to weave virtue into one's daily life, one is on the path to a life well lived, one of happin...