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Creative Days: Teaching Creativity through Producing Original Music
Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment instruction, Michigan Arts Education
For the past 17 years, as a main component of our yearly music curriculum, I have been producing original music with K-12 students. By providing the tools, the time, and the guidance for students to create...
Continue ReadingThank you, MCACA!
Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts education, community partnership, MAEIA, MCACA, Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
Thank you, Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs for funding a portion of our work for 2016-17! We are so grateful for your partnership and the opportunity to continue to support communities in...
Continue ReadingThe Practice of Adaptation: A Series in Four Disciplines, Part 2 Using MAEIA Performance Assessments for Online Teaching
Karrie LaFave Leave a Comment dance, music, Online Learning, Online Teaching, Performance Assessment, theatre, visual arts
As stated before, we find ourselves in unprecedented times and with the possibility of adapting your teaching to online platforms, we at MAEIA are here for you. In a previous posting we asked educators to...
Continue ReadingMargaret Thiele: Having Fun with the MAEIA Assessments
Margaret Thiele Leave a Comment arts assessment items, arts assessments, arts education, MAEIA Leadership Fellow, Margaret Thiele, music education, performance tasks
Last year I participated in the field-testing for the MAEIA Assessments for elementary music. In that role my focus was on the assessments themselves, the length of time it took to administer them, if they...
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