Teaching the Arts to Engage English Language Learners

ISBN-13: 9780415873864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str.

Margaret Macintyre Latta

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Written for prospective and practicing visual arts, music, drama, and dance educators, Teaching the Arts to Engage English Language Learners offers guidance for engaging ELLs, alongside all learners, through artistic thinking. By paying equal attention to visual art, music, drama, and dance education, this book articulates how arts classrooms can create rich and supportive contexts for ELLs to grow socially, academically, and personally. The making and relating, perceiving and responding, and connecting and understanding processes of artistic thinking, create the terrain for rich curricular experiences. These processes also create the much-needed spaces for ELLs to gain communicative practice, skill, and confidence. Special features include generative texts such as films, poems, and performances that function as springboards for arts educators to adapt according to the needs of their classroom; teaching tips, formative assessment practices, and related instructional tables and resources; an annotated list of internet sites, reader-friendly research articles, and instructional materials; and a glossary for readers reference. "

Spis treści

Series Introduction  Volume Introduction  Part 1: Your English Language Learner Tony Erben  Part 2: Principles of Teaching and Learning in the Arts  Part 3: Teaching the Arts—Visual Arts, Music, Drama, and Dance  Part 4: Resources  Glossary