Cheryl Poole Leave a Comment agency, arts education, arts instruction, Demonstrating Educator Effectiveness, early career, educator evaluation, MAEIA assessments, storytelling, teacher observation

Eavesdropping on a Teacher’s Conversation Recently, I had the opportunity to be present with a small group of art and music teachers. They were young and relatively new to their career. Their...

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment assessment, assessment literacy, assessment practices, data display, educator effectiveness, reporting, scoring

The MAEIA Demonstrating Educator Effectiveness page is here! The page outlines the process an educator moves through in the planning, implementing, and presenting evidence of their effectiveness; complete...

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment Adaptation, assessments, dance, MAEIA, music, Online Learning, theatre, visual arts

As we find ourselves in unprecedented times, with the possibility of adapting your teaching to online platforms, we at MAEIA are here for you. Though our assessment catalog is not a bank of lesson plans,...

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts education, arts integration, communication, creative process, creative thinking, critical thinking, Joni Starr, social intelligence, transferable knowledge

Arts education benefits students because it affords them creative capacity and this allows students to be a part of making their own education instead of just receiving it. The creative process asks students to be...