STEP alumni are subsidized to participate in a professional development workshop for the creative arts through CSET's Summer Teaching Festival. Here students can draw on prior knowledge and apply arts learning to their classrooms.
In Making Thinking Visible, veteran and beginning teachers experience ambiguity and complexity from multiple perspectives with creative, flexible thinking and problem solving skills. They collaboratively construct projects from the raw materials of K-6 STEAM curriculum and visual arts to clarify a math concept, make meaning of fiction or nonfiction texts, or communicate ideas integral to history and the sciences. Puzzling the questions and concepts their own students would face, teachers also see how the arts promote equity, access, and community in the classroom. In the process, they clarify for themselves pedagogical challenges and complex concepts they will be teaching. By participating in this inside-out process, teachers draw on their knowledge of and experience with their students, academic content, standards, and assessment to spark insights and new ideas for creative teaching and learning in their classrooms.
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