me arts ed

Opportunity

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The application deadline for teachers interested in creating and disseminating relevant and effective Open Educational Resources (OERs) by participating in the development of the professional development co-teaching model is June 10th.

CLARIFICATION: The funds that have been provided to develop these units and provide professional development for using the developed units comes from ARRA funds. The purpose is to provide opportunities to teachers to enrich their teaching and to pass it forward (similar to the SEED units of the past). The units that will be developed will go to a deeper level of integration to exhibit the benefits of collaboration. Without the collaboration we depend on the expertise of one person when developing units. The opportunities for learning have the potential to be much greater. I know many of you have heard me say: “none of us is as smart as all of us”.

I view this work as an outstanding opportunity not only for developing units collaboratively, but an opportunity to educate others about arts education and the value to student achievement. The Department of Education included VPA in this work along with the other content areas of the MLR’s. The arts educators that are selected for this work will be ones who can not only develop curriculum units, but have an understanding of the value of integration! All arts educators will have the opportunity to benefit from this work. Remember the deadline for applying is June 10th!

Be sure and email me if you have questions argy.nestor@maine.gov