Now more than ever
Whether your school/district is shut down or planning to or figuring out how to respond to the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) your students need you more than ever. I know that some schools are doing online learning but that doesn’t work for many schools or students who do not have access to the technology needed.
Being able to reassure the youngest of children that you’re OK will help them know that they’re OK. Perhaps you can create short videos or audio clips (using QuickTime or Garage Band or another program or app) so they can see and/or hear your voice. Post them in a central spot where they can access them whenever they need their spirits lifted. I know you’re a bright spot on a normal day!
I’m sure that your creative spirits will provide you with the ideas and strength you need to find the necessary pathway to survive and strive through this challenge. I’m convinced that this situation requires ‘out of box’ thinking and will make us better teachers! Who better to use creativity than visual and performing arts teachers?
Navigating the challenge
I hope that you will support each other and one way to do that is to share the plethora of resources that you are using. I will be posting information on the Maine Arts Education facebook along with continuing to provide information on the blog. As usual, please send your stories for the blog so others can learn and be inspired by you and your work (and play).
Below are a few resources to support you in navigating this challenging situation. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help out by emailing me at meartsed@gmail.com.
HELPFUL ARTICLES
- Coronavirus disease 2019 and children FAQ
- Pandemic, COVID-19 and all the coronavirus terms you need to know
- How to Talk with Children on COVID-19
- Distance Learning Alternatives*: Questions to Consider in This Bizarre Time, *Don’t Just Assign Stuff by NAfME member Doreen Fryling
- ProActive Measures in Education During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- What Teachers in China Have Learned in the Past Month by Laurel Schwartz, Edutopia
TEACHING RESOURCES
GENERAL
- Best Practices for Online Teaching
- HundrED online distance learning
- PBS Learning Network
- Maine DOE resources
- Smithsonian Learning Lab
- 30 Virtual Field Trips including The Louvre
- TED-Ed Video Playlist divided by content
- 150+ Educational Shows on Netflix
- Hundreds of companies offering free educational resources
PERFORMING ARTS
- Since their doors are closed the Philharmonie Berlin is free for 30 days
- NAfME website resources
- A How To guide for Teaching Music Lessons Online Melody Payne
- Hip Hop With Soul Science Lab – Carnegie Hall
- Musical Explorers – Carnegie Hall
- American Theatre Wing
- Mozart and the Tooth Fairy video
- Music Theory – Free online content
- Kennedy Center dance resources
VISUAL ART
- Stir Crazy Already? Feast Your Eyes on 20 Works of Art That Celebrate the Joys of Being at Home by Sarah Cascone
- McHarper Manor daily online lessons
- Paris Museums put 100,000 images online for unrestricted use by Jason Kottke
- 27 Art Activities and Lessons to Try at Home, The Art of Education
- How to Teach Art When No One Can Go to School by Megan Dehner
- Cassie Stephens blog – elementary public school art teacher from TN-home-based teaching lessons
OPPORTUNITY TODAY
Jason Anderson, Maine Department of Education Visual and Performing Arts Specialist, is providing two zoom meetings for you to participate in to share ideas. Both meetings will be recorded and archived at a later day in case you can not participate in real time.
10:00 meeting, today, March 16 – CLICK HERE to join the meeting.
3:00 meeting, today, March 16 – CLICK HERE to join the meeting.
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