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Elementary and middle and secondary education administration;elementary education and teaching;teacher education and professional development
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Arts Integration Professional Development: Teacher Perspective And Transfer To Instructional Practice, Jo Ann Garrett
Arts Integration Professional Development: Teacher Perspective And Transfer To Instructional Practice, Jo Ann Garrett
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Limited data connect teacher training in arts integration (AI) to evidence that students benefit from arts integrated instruction. As teachers are challenged to facilitate instruction for a wide continuum of learning needs, and students are challenged to demonstrate learning through high-stakes testing, more data are needed on how teachers learn and transfer AI strategies to classroom practice. Teachers (N = 38) from five elementary schools learned multi-modal AI strategies via the Intensive Development through the Arts (IDEA) model. Interview data in this concurrent mixed methods study illustrated the IDEA experience as a positive influence on (a) the learning environment, (b) …