A presentation on Arts Integration in the classroom given at ESSA in Kansas City

1. ESSA Presentation
Co-Presented By
Gail Humphries Mardirosian, Hannah Vonder Haar, Elizabeth Watson

2. Gail Humphries Mardirosian, Ph.D.
Gail Humphries Mardirosian, Ph.D., is the Dean of the Stephens
College School of Creative and Performing Arts in Columbia, MO.
She is Professor Emeritus at American University in Washington,
D.C., where she served as Chair of the Department of Performing
Arts and Professor of Theatre. She is a fellow in the College of
Fellows of the American Theatre, a recipient of the
Likhachev/Yeltsin Cultural Fellowship in St. Petersburg, Russia,
and a former Fulbright Senior Scholar with an appointment at the
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic. Her
directing credits include over 170 productions in both national and
international venues. Publications involve a focus on international
theater including Arts Integration in Education... Theory, Impact,
and Practice (Intellect Books, LTD 2016), chapters in The Power of
Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations and
Traces of the Holocaust (Routledge, 2012) and The Courage to Fight
Violence Against Women (Routledge, 2018).
Meet the Speakers

3. Hannah Vonder Haar
Hannah Vonder Haar is an art integration specialist and
classroom teacher at The Children's School at Stephens College.
At CSSC, she teaches drama, art, music, and dance to students
at the elementary and preschool level. In conjunction with this
role, she works as an adjunct instructor in the Education
Program. She works with pre-service teachers in a course called
Integrating the Arts into the Classroom. She has B.S. in
Elementary Education and a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction
and has spent time as a private piano instructor and performed
as a backup singer in local bands. In addition, she has performed
at The Lyceum Theater in Arrow Rock, Missouri, and directed
plays at a variety of summer camps. She also does freelance
work and has a small business called Vondering Haart Jewelry
where she creates original works of art using metal, precious
stones, and wire.
Meet the Speakers

4. Elizabeth Watson
Meet the Speakers
Elizabeth Watson is the director of The Children’s School at
Stephens College and continues to work with preservice teachers.
Her passion for education has been shaped over the past 15
years as a classroom teacher in both preschool and elementary
and as an instructor in the college classroom. She started her
career at Stephens College as an undergraduate student from
Minnesota and received her early childhood degree and
teaching certification. After her first year of teaching, she
continued her education at the University of Missouri and received
her Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an
emphasis in Reading. This year, she will continue as a doctoral
student at the University of Missouri in Learning, Teaching and
Curriculum with an emphasis in Reading. As an early childhood
and elementary educator, she believes the best way to enhance
learning is to provide students with hands-on experiences which
will create thought-provoking experiences for students to become
independent creators.

5. Stephens College
School of Creative and Performing Arts
Stephens College is located in the vibrant college city of Columbia, Missouri which is
halfway from both Kansas City and St. Louis. It is the 2nd oldest women's college in
the country. Today, Stephens remains committed to women's education at the undergraduate
level and is also committed to expanding programs at the graduate level, including a new
MFA low residency television and film screen writing program in Hollywood. Building on a
tradition of strength in the creative arts and programming in areas of high demand in the
health sciences, Stephens and its programs are changing to better serve the students,
community, region and nation.
The newly formed School of Creative and Performing Arts includes programs of study in
performing arts, English/creative writing, digital film making and education.
www.stephens.edu
Communicate. Collaborate. Create.

6. The Children’s School at Stephens College takes a holistic approach to education, emphasizing
exploration and study of the arts and sciences. We believe in a constructivist curriculum that supports
an ever-changing and developing child.
The Children's School

7. Energize and Engage:
An Arts Integration in Education Summit
Was held on November 4th, 2017 and sponsored by:

8. • The outcome data clearly indicate that the
majority of participants report enhanced
knowledge of arts-integration
instructional practices as a result of
attending the Summit and reading related
materials.
• The 96 participants reported increased
confidence about being able to implement
arts-integration strategies across a variety
of content areas.
• Additionally, the data show that project
experiences had a positive impact on
participants’ beliefs about the value of
arts integration and their ability to be
conversant about how to put into practice
what they learned.
• The data evaluation will inform and inspire
future planning as we move forward with
professional development initiatives for
teacher training in arts integration at both
the pre-service and in-service level.
• Stephens College continues to focus on the
depth and breadth of arts integration to
enhance teacher effectiveness, improve
student achievement, and expand
parental involvement in
teaching/learning.
www.artsintegrationedu.org
Summit Outcomes

9. Roots and Wings 2019
• Our new initiative entitled “Roots and Wings” will
aggregate and apply the results of our findings to
expand the application of arts integration both locally
and regionally.
• We intend to identify schools and principals who are
interested in implementing arts integration and are
developing a model for teacher training that we
intend to serve as an exemplar for schools
throughout the state.
• There are implications for the project, once
implemented, to become a national model that
interfaces public education with colleges/universities
through professional-development training.

10. Socio-Cultural Theory
• Using a sociocultural lens as an umbrella, allows us to further our understanding of the power art
integration can provide for our ever-changing classrooms.
• Sociocultural theory stresses the role of social, cultural, and historical factors within one’s cultural
framework (Tracey & Morrow, 2017) and observes the critical inputs' society has on an individual's
development.
• Sociocultural theory also guides our thinking to look further into the use of tools and how the
knowledge of a person impacts an activity.
• Sociocultural theory allows us to examine art integration as a “tool" that can provide children
opportunities to further their understanding of content knowledge.
• Vygotsky believed humans use language and physical signs to connect their minds and their
environment.
• When we refer to “tools” we are referring to Vygotsky’s psychological tools as
symbolic cultural artifacts—signs, symbols, texts, formulae, and most fundamentally,
language.

11. 8 major intelligences (plus Existential and
Environmental) that Gardner considered.
INTELLIGENCE √ How is intelligence incorporated?
Verbal-linguistic
Logical-mathematical
Spatial-visual
Bodily-kinesthetic
Musical
Interpersonal
intelligence
Intrapersonal
Naturalist
Existential
Environmental
Solve a problem or
create a product
8 Major Intelligences
Entry Points For Knowledge Identified by Howard Gardner

12. Living Picture
Arts Integration
in Action George
Washington

13. Body Voice Mind Imagination
Concentration Cooperation
Lesson Planning Rubric (Keys of Performing Arts)

14. Teaching The
Holocaust
• Activity
• Core Book or Content
• Using the DC Curriculum
• English/Language Arts & Social Studies for
6th & 7th Grades
• National Standards for the Arts
• Theatre
• Visual Arts
• Dance
• Music
• Goal
• Materials
• Using The Mechanisms Of The Arts
• Body
• Voice
• Mind
• Imagination

15. Teaching The
Holocaust
• Using The Techniques Of The Arts
• Using The Tools Of The Arts
• Addressing The Multiple
Intelligences
• Linguistic
• Logical/Mathematical
• Spatial
• Musical
• Bodily-Kinesthetic
• Interpersonal
• Intrapersonal
• Naturalist
• Life-Long Learning Skills
• Follow-Up Activities

16. Additional Resources
• Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family by
Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank by B.M. Mooyaart, Eleanor Roosevelt
• Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
• Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War by Yukio Tsuchiya
• Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from
The Terezin Concentration Camp by Hana Volavkova, Vaclav Havel, Chaim Potok, United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Rose Blanche by Ian McEwan
• Six Million Paper Clips: The Making Of A Children's Holocaust Memorial by Peter W. Schroeder,
Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand
• The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida
• The Butterfly Paperback by Patricia Polacco
• Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark by Carmen Agra Deedy

17. Integrating The Arts Into The Classroom Syllabus:
Course Objectives:
• Understand the importance of art-based learning and how it engages children in learning,
and provides another means for expressing understanding and knowledge.
• Plan, teach and evaluate a variety of arts integration experiences with children.
• Demonstrate an ability to integrate different subject areas into a single lesson and/or unit.
• Cultivate skills in creativity, imagination, observation, and inquiry.
• Lesson Reflection
• Think Like an Artist
• Arts Integration Presentation Final
• Studio Habits of Mind Presentations
• Observations/Discussion
• Lesson Integration / Learning Experiences
Assignments:
Author Skyping:
• Students make meaningful connections to content by skyping with various authors from the
anchor book: Arts Integration in Education
Reaching Undergraduates With Arts Integration

18. QUESTIONS
HOT TOPICS
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