ARTS San Antonio is proud to present the 2008-2009 ARtsTEach catalog, a collaboration between schools, corporate interest and the community. Since it's inception, ARtsTEach has been bringing all forms of the arts to elementary schools across San Antonio. We intend to continue our commitment to better education through the arts by seeing that the ARtsTEach program reaches more children in San Antonio and the surrounding area each year. Through the ARtsTEach program, ARTS San Antonio intends to continue building partnerships and developing the ever increasing knowledge that "the arts are basic to education". When you receive your ARtsTEach Catalog, or you look at the ARtsTEach Web page, take time to look it over and get familiar with it because, even though it looks the same as last year, the contents have had some changes. We have added exciting new workshops, to our Artist Roster. We are thrilled and excited to have all of them be a part of our program. We know that our artists are among the very best in San Antonio and some of them have been favorites of yours for a long time. It is our hope that ARtsTEach will remain a very vibrant, positive and memorable part of your student's curriculum. Using the ARtsTEach Catalog The workshops in this catalog are organized by grade levels; K–2, 3–5, and Secondary. This has been done to help teachers pick grade relevant workshops and to assure optimum results from the service. Contained in these sections are workshops representing the full range of art disciplines, including: Cultural, Dance, Literature, Music, Theatre and Visual Art workshops. Teachers and administrators are encouraged to browse through the entire catalog to see what might support the goals and objectives at their appropriate class or campus. We also encourage teacher/artist communication prior to the workshops. This way the teacher can present any special needs or curriculum requests to assure a successful experience for all participants. ARtsTEach believes in grade level consistency. When ordering ARtsTEach workshops please keep in mind that THE MINIMUM REQUESTED TIME FOR ANY ARTIST IS TWO HOURS IN CONSECUTIVE TIME SLOTS. We have had to make this change in order to enable the artists to set aside blocks of time at a particular school and spend less time traveling. With the extra travel time, artists fill up their days very quickly causing other schools to be denied their request for workshops. Please remember that a request form is a “Request” and that the artist may have already received requests for the same day that you are requesting. For scheduling purposes, ARtsTEach suggests sending in requests AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. This means sending in the request at least two full weeks prior to the date requested. Requests received within two-weeks of the date requested can not be guaranteed by ARtsTEach. We have found that a lot of the schools use the program mostly during the months of April and May and we are inundated with requests at that time. ARtsTEach is a year around program and we would like to see more schools utilize it to support their curriculum throughout the entire school year. When you see a workshop that you would like to schedule for your students, fill out the request form and have your principal sign it. Please fax it to the attention of the ARtsTEach coordinator at (210) 226-1981 or mail to ARtsTEach c/o Arts San Antonio, 222 E. Houston Street, Suite 400, San Antonio, Texas 78205. You can order here online as well, however we will still need to have the signed request faxed or sent in to us. Unless otherwise indicated in a workshop's description, workshop costs are based on a class of 25 students. The price of each workshop is listed in the catalog. This price includes all materials needed for workshops in addition to expertise of the artist. Schools outside Bexar County will be charged an additional $10.00 per round trip, per artist requested. Your school will be invoiced for services provided by ARtsTEach. Invoices will be sent out immediately after the workshops have taken place. If your school requires special billing arrangements, please contact the ARtsTEach coordinator at (210) 226-2891. All checks are to be made payable to ARTS SAN ANTONIO, under no condition is payment to be issued, or given, directly to the artists. ARtsTEach and the Curriculum! ARtsTEach seeks to be more than just a method of getting the arts into primary and secondary school of greater San Antonio. ARtsTEach workshops are developed each year with the intent of making correlation's to the existing curriculum. When this occurs, not only are the arts playing an active role in the classroom, but also the arts are generating curiosity about thinking and learning across the entire curriculum. In addition, ARtsTEach brings non-traditional methods of instruction that reach students with all learning styles. TEKS As you may know, before last year the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills were distributed buy the Texas Education Agency (TEA). In this document the state outlined requirements for all grades in all curricular areas. Included in this were the "Fine Arts." This proves even more need for programs like ARtsTEach to continue their goals of providing services to schools that do not have the resources to cover these curricular areas. If you wish to receive a listing of the TEKS for workshops in this catalog, please contact ARtsTEach @ 226-2891 or email ARtsTEach@ArtsSanAntonio.com and a copy will be sent to you. General Student Population School Districts are responsible for enabling students to participate actively in a well-balanced curriculum, according to State Board of Education rules. Designed to meet individual needs, an effective art program makes significant contributions to the development of well-rounded, intelligent, sensitive, self-confident and contributing members of society. In addition to enriching students' affective abilities, art educate develops the cognitive abilities of the individual students. Students experience the processes or perceiving, comprehending, imagining, creating, and evaluating. These processes provide a focus for students to develop interpretive analytic, creative, synthetic, and critical thinking skills. ARtsTEach is the perfect vehicle to accentuate these processes. Special Education The arts offer adaptable media with a history of accommodating individual needs and talents. The objective is not the creation of separate programs and activities for persons with disabilities; rather, it is to ensure full participation in existing programs. Students with the greatest number of special needs of course, will require the greatest amount of support and individual attention. Gifted and Talented Education Art provides creative challenges, leadership opportunities and in-depth experiences that enable gifted and talented students to reach their full potential. Academically gifted students have the ability to think of many thins at a time, understand structure, and perceive connections. Arts programs with a wide range of content, responsibilities, and problems to be solved, present a challenge. Students are encouraged to analyze, compare and contrast, synthesize and evaluate ideas as they explore and discover. Through art education, students can focus their curiosity and challenge their imagination. Special Student Population A major goal of any education program is to enable students to grow physically, emotionally, aesthetically, and intellectually to the fullest extent of their abilities. The arts curriculum provides unique opportunities for the involvement of all students, regardless of experience, cultural background or disabling conditions. Participating students can alternate as observers, creators, performers, and evaluators, thereby gaining knowledge discovering talents, refining skill s and developing and understanding and appreciation of the abilities and efforts of others. Multi Cultural Education The ARtsTEach program offers an ideal means of enriching multi-cultural programs, because it allows bilingual, ESL, and migrant students to see through the eyes of another, experience feelings and ideas firsthand. Activities in art that focus on personal experiences and interests provide students from different ethnic groups with an opportunity to share with others their cultural forms of expression, personal ethics, and social goals, Encouragement of efforts enhances self image, builds confidence, and motivates the exploration of new ideas and interests. The nature of art education develops an understanding and appreciation of the abilities and efforts of everyone involved. Secondary and Community Workshops Grades Six through twelve: ARtsTEach has the capability of servicing all grade levels in arts services and workshops. At the elementary level Artsteach is able to create workshops of one or two hours based on the open schedule that the primary grades run on. At the secondary level, each campus is different. In these cases, ARtsTEach offers its services through a contract basis. If your campus has a need for arts services, we suggest that you determine the content areas that are needed. From this we are able to develop a proposal based on your needs to provide the best solution. Community Workshops: ARtsTEach is able to service the community at large with arts services. Places like Homeowners Association Centers, Nursing Homes, Churches, etc. Together with ARtsTEach, the creations of an arts-based after-school center for youth or a summer program are possible. The needs are great and the possibilities are limitless. Whatever the need is, ARtsTEach is versatile enough to create the answer. Please feel free to contact ARtsTEach so that we may sit down and create a custom built workshop or artist residency for your site. Since each contract will be different, we suggest that you plan on approximately fifty dollars per hour, per artist for the duration of the residency.

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