Summer Arts Integration Institute at WPU

Recently over forty teachers participated in an exciting Summer Arts Integration Institute at WPU, a two-day conference that focused on integrating art into other core subject areas. Public school teachers in all content areas were invited to this Geraldine R. Dodge funded event. Many teachers from Paterson School District attended.

Dr. Heejung An, Dodge Grant Director opened with a presentation explaining that STEAM: Science Technology Engineering Art Math is part of Arts Integration. Dr. An is interested in formally researching the impact of Arts Integration on the educational environment.

She explained:

"Arts Integration is an interdisciplinary teaching practice through which non-art and arts content is taught and assessed equitably in order to deemed students' understanding of both" (NJPSA/FEA & Dodge) (booklet pictured below)

  

In addition to the Arts Integration Guide Above, there is now a Arts Integration Think and Do Companion Workbook Available at this Link

The WPU Arts Integration Institute featured twenty proven art-integrated lessons ranging from kindergarten through 12^th grade that have been developed during the school year.

WPU Art Professors in Residence Triada Samaras and Simone Sandler gave Powerpoint presentations on Arts Integration topics as well.

A new and meaningful Memory Project: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

Recently Art Teacher Patty Kaminski at Don Bosco Technical Academy in Paterson and her 

students completed an arts integration project with the Memory Project: Portraits of 

Kindness featuring young children from Puerto Rico. This was especially meaningful to 

these students as several of them have close relatives in Puerto Rico who have suffered 

greatly due to Hurricane Maria. 

This Arts Integration project was created under the auspices of the 

Geraldine R. Dodge Arts Integration Grant and was supported by grant-funded Art Professor 

in Residence Triada Samaras from William Paterson University COE to create a 

collaboration between children in Paterson and children in Puerto Rico incorporating: social

studies, world language, and portraiture via the Memory Project.

The culmination is this inspiring video:

Direct Link to Video

An earlier project that Ms. Kamiski and her students did with children from the Philippines can be found here:

Memory Project Video! A gift from the Philippines to the Don Bosco Technical Academy Community!

Jan 21 2018