Education / Professional Development for Educators
Did you know that the arts can be a powerful tool for engaging students in core subjects like literacy, history, math and science? For 20 years Walton Arts Center has been teaching Northwest Arkansas educators how to use art to enrich classroom instruction. In fact, Walton Arts Center is a national leader in arts integration professional development for teachers. Learn more at right.
Arts With Education Institute
August 1- 5, 2011
An annual week-long summer institute designed to support teachers in integration of arts throughout the curriculum.
Arts With Education (AWE) Institute prepares teachers to use the arts to make teaching across the curriculum more engaging and effective (recent focus: literacy,math). AWE involves teachers in hands-on, interactive workshops presented by John F. Kennedy Center experts.
Each year Walton Arts Center trains approximately 40 teachers and teaching artists at AWE. For every year these teachers include arts integration instruction in their curriculum more than 1200 students will benefit each school year. For more information, call Katherine Williams at 479-571-2745.
download the registration form (PDF 258K)
Funding for AWE is provided in part by Crayola® with additional funding from Arkansas Arts Council and Walton Arts Center supporters and benefactors. For more information about this professional development or other performances, contact the Walton Arts Center Box Office by calling 479.443.5600 or by visiting waltonartscenter.org.
Colgate Classroom Series Performance Guides
Online arts integration support for educators
Guides are an easy-to-implement resource for learning that support educators to make links between Classroom Series performances and state mandated learning standards. Each year more than 700 classes benefit from the pre and post performance activities suggested in Walton Arts Center Performance Guides.
The 2011-12 Performance Guides have not been posted yet. Coming soon - archives of past seasons performance guides.
Total Instructional Alignment (TIA) Resource Project
Electronic categorizing and cataloging of internet resources that relate to Arkansas learning objectives
A project of the Northwest Arkansas Education Services Cooperative, the TIA resource will provide instant access for all Arkansas educators to free internet resources that support Arkansas learning objectives. Walton Arts Center working with John F. Kennedy Center affiliated artists and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Arts has provided the arts integration component of this state-wide resource.