Kennedy Center's Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA) Program
John Adams Elementary School is proud to have been selected as one of 16 schools in the Washington, DC metropolitan area to be a member of the Kennedy Center's Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA) program. Our school's partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which began in 2009, helps teachers develop their expertise in integrating the arts with the teaching of other school subjects (such as history, language arts, science). This focus on arts-integrated instruction is designed to help all students learn with greater motivation and ease. To that end, the Kennedy Center and the schools work together to develop, implement, and evaluate an in-depth staff development program of courses, workshops, coaching, and study groups.
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John Adams Elementary School has also been accepted by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to participate in the CETA Research and Development (R&D) project. Through this project, John Adams Elementary School will have the opportunity to work with the Kennedy Center's Director of Evaluation to gather data for the CETA Evaluation. There are a total of 16 CETA schools, four of which have been designated as Research & Development Schools.
Below are examples of professional development courses offered by the Kennedy Center:
Poetry and Music: Reading and Writing with Fluency and Expression
This four-session course brings to life the powerful relationships between music, the expressive language of poetry, and reading and writing. Prosody refers to the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry and the patterns of stress and intonation in language. Through a detailed study of the elements of prosody (rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition, and form) learn how to help students write poetry with cadence and flow. Through an exploration of the elements of vocal expression (dynamics, tempo, inflection, repetition, and rest) discover how to help students read their writing with fluency and expression. Join musician and national teaching artist Marcia Daft for a course that will transform the way you think about using poetry writing across the curriculum. Use the techniques presented in this course and watch students' writing skills improve.
Scientific Thought in Motion
Teachers can translate many basic concepts in science into meaningful movement activities that put abstract ideas into tangible, visible form. In lessons that engage students in movement, participants learn the elements of dance, how those elements relate to scientific content, and how to assess student learning through a creative proves. Participants leave the workshop with a set of immediately useful movement activities for classroom study of science "big ideas," alongside strategies for finding links between dance and science. Randy Barron, dance educator from New Mexico, guides teachers in easy-to-duplicate lesson plans which draw upon multiple intelligences to increase student achievement in science and develop skills crucial for success in the 21st century.
