Project Engagement
Project Engagement Overview
Project Engagement focuses on an approach that maximizes student engagement through the arts. It borrows from arts education techniques, educational theories and practices, research in the field and proven “best practices” from programs throughout the U.S. In this program, students become engaged in various reading strategies through process drama.
The cornerstone of Project Engagement is our curriculum guides. Each class has 4 different artists visit over the course of a residency, all playing various characters within the story.
Basic Program Components
- Fourteen 90-minute visits.
- Incorporates all 4 arts disciplines (Theater, Visual Art, Music and Dance).
- Curriculum is integrated with core subject matter: English Language Arts and Social Studies.
- Emphasizes critical thinking.
- Puts responsibility of problem-solving and story development on the students themselves.
- Puts students into role. Students are invited into an imaginary world where they get to"be" adults who know all the answers. Even their teachers need their assistance.
- Incorporates some of the "Bet Practices" in arts education that inspire and create:
- Empathy and Tolerance
- Self-efficacy
- Resiliency
- Student Engagement
- Change in the relationship between teacher and students and students and students to their learning environment
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To read the Executive Summary for Project Engagement click here.
