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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is designed to involve participants in the process of exploring the creative use of some of the arts- including visual arts, poetry, and telling stories-in redefining definitions literacy, understanding their students' literacies, and how they may enhance these skills. The course will involve research, art making, and curriculum development that draws on what participants have discovered about the lives, families, and communities of their students.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course examines the theoretical structures underlying curriculum and the implications and manifestations of these for responsible educational decision making. Curriculum, instruction, and assessment will be explored from historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. Topics include, but are not limited to, contemporary curricular trends and issues, personal constructs of curriculum, exploration of varied ideological orientations, and alternative methods of assessment to formulate an articulate theoretical and personal rationale for the arts in education. Note: Limited to students enrolled in Creative Arts Master’s program at off-campus locations. Prerequisite: GARED 6100. Formerly: Curriculum Theory and the Arts in Education.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Considers the history and philosophy of American education with special emphasis on the arts and their place in education. The approach includes using both mainstream sources and those (especially biographical narratives) from minority groups (African-American, Asian-American, Native American, Latino, religious minorities, and recent immigrants). How the arts emerge from various racial and cultural communities and how schools, communities, and the arts can come together in the education enterprise are examined.
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3.00 Credits
/GARED 6112 (5-12) 3 credits This course is designed as an introduction to art education focusing on current trends, various movements and approaches, and curriculum and instruction. A pre-practicum field placement will be required to ground student learning in the field. Reflections from the field will be part of ongoing class discussions.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits With the support of readings, projects, and class discussions, students will examine their own views on art and education and consider multiple possibilities for curriculum development. Students will construct and present curriculum for teaching the fundamentals of visual art to various age groups. Through presentation, critique, and reflection, students will develop curricular and pedagogical approaches that are consistent with their own philosophies of art and teaching. Prerequisite: GARED 6111 or GARED 6112.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits In This course, students will develop comprehensive formal and informal assessment and evaluation techniques and methods. These methods will lead to improving teaching practice through knowledge of student learning, teacher reflection, and an understanding of the impact of students' individual differences on learning.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is designed to provide the participants with an introduction to integrating the arts into the teaching of history and social science in the elementary classroom. The course will provide the participants with an opportunity to explore the arts as A powerful language to express and integrate knowledge in the teaching domains of history, geography, civics, economics, and social studies. Note: Offered in intensive format both fall and spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is designed to introduce pre-service teachers to the practice of using the arts to enhance teaching and learning in the history and social science classroom. A variety of hands-on approaches for planning and integrating the arts-storytelling, visual arts, music, drama, literature, poetry, and movement-into the historyand social science content areas for PreK-2 students will be applied. We will explore materials and strategies desirable for facilitating higher order thinking, oral and written communication competencies, different learning styles, different points of view, and diversity and social issues in the classroom and beyond. We will examine theories of arts-integrated curriculum as they relate to Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework and National Standards. Note: Required/core course offered in the intensive format in the fall and spring semester.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit Participatory arts activities and approaches to encourage creativity and imagination are presented with applications to classroom teaching.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit Feel comfortable writing poems with children. This course offers techniques, sources, and ways to integrate poetry into classroom curriculum.
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