Faculty: Rebecca Penerosa
Program Goals
In this program, participants will learn and practice elementary arts integration
methodologies and assessment strategies for all major art forms including music, dance,
drama, visual, literary, and media arts. Teaching in an integrative fashion, using
the arts to enhance learning across the curriculum, will be emphasized.
Objectives
The Arts Education (AED) Continuing Education Program offers continuing education
units that meet all of the requirements for the Elementary Arts Integration Endorsement
conferred by the Utah State Board of Education. In addition, we offer directed study
courses to help meet endorsement requirements in the elementary art-form-specific
endorsement categories. Through a more extensive application process, we also offer
an international CEU course with a travel abroad component for seasoned BTS Arts educators.
These CEU offerings will address effective practice and research-based strategies
to inform leadership and foster partnerships to support arts education. The progressive
pedagogical approach of arts integration will be the key focus, including: access,
equity, inclusion, and diversified instructional strategies. In addition, these courses
will involve the community through teacher outreach and provide a means for increased
awareness in critical consciousness and action as participants strive to earn and
share their endorsement for arts-integrated instruction. The first half of the mission
of the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program is to "increase the quality
and quantity of arts education for elementary students". By sharing carefully crafted
arts integration strategies and curriculum with teachers across the globe, our local
specialists, teachers, and pre-service educators will gain further insight into best
practices and increase the quality and quantity of arts education access in their
community schools and abroad.
Program Requirements
| Curriculum Summary |
CEUs |
| Context, Integration, Assessment |
| AED 01 Arts Integration Methods |
3 |
| Art Form Basic Knowledge and Skills |
| AED 02 Content Methods (in either Dance, Music, Visual Arts, or Drama) |
1-3 |
| Arts Participation in Educator Events |
| AED 03 Arts Connect International Rwanda |
4 |
| AED 04 Arts Education Workshop(s)/Professional Development |
1-3 |
| AED 05 Arts Education Directed Study |
1-4 |
| Arts Participation in Educator Events Cont. |
| AED 06 Educator Events |
2 |
| AED 07 Introduction to Arts Integration |
2 |
| AED 08 Fine Arts: Implementation, Leadership, and Advocacy |
2 |
| AED 09 Conference/Workshop Attendance in the Arts |
1 |
Course Descriptions
Non-credit courses are recorded as Continuing Education Units or CEUs. One CEU represents
10 contact hours of instruction and learning activities. CEUs are generally not transferable
to other institutions. Participants will need to attend all classes to earn full credit
for endorsement.
| AED 01 |
Arts Integration Methods |
3 |
| In this course, participants will learn and practice elementary arts integration methodologies
and assessment strategies for all major art forms including music, dance, drama, visual
arts, literary arts, and media arts. This course will meet the Context, Integration,
and Assessment requirements for the Utah State Elementary Arts Integration Endorsement. |
| AED 02 |
Content Methods (in either Dance, Music, Visual Arts, or Drama) |
1-3 |
| In this course, participants will learn and practice elementary arts methodologies
and assessment strategies in either dance, music, visual arts, or drama. As a continuation
course to AED 01, students will experience a deeper dive into arts-integrated curricular
design in their chosen art form. All students will register for this course, regardless
of their chosen art form, and then break-out into smaller sections to explore appropriate
strategies and current beset practices for elementary children learning in the arts.
This course has been designed to meet the Basic Knowledge requirements in the field
of music for the Utah State Elementary Arts Integration Endorsement. |
| AED 03 |
ArtsConnect International Rwanda |
4 |
| This 11-day course experience in Rwanda will be an educational exchange, where select
BTSALP Specialists provide a 4-day professional development training and implementation
for teacher-trainers in Rwanda. Similarly, these specialists will endeavor to learn
how the arts and community building have sustained and propelled the Rwandan people
to recover and rebuild following the genocide of 1994. |
| AED 04 |
Arts Education Workshop(s)/Professional Development |
1-3 |
| In this course, participants will have the opportunity to receive CEU credit for various
workshops and professional development opportunities offered through Westminster University
in arts education and arts integration. Continuing education students will experience
teaching in an integrative fashion, using the arts to enhance learning across the
curriculum will be emphasized. |
| AED 05 |
Arts Education Directed Study |
1-4 |
| In this course, participants will have the opportunity to receive CEU credit for arts-specific
coursework. This is both an experiential and tutorial-based course used for student-initiated
proposals for intensive individual and/or small group study of topics not otherwise
offered in the arts education continuing education program. Upon approval, these courses
will meet certain requirements for one or more of the elementary arts endorsements
in either: dance, music, visual arts or drama. Requires Director approval. This course
is repeatable for credit. |
| AED 06 |
Educator Events |
2 |
| In this asynchronous course, candidates for the Elementary Arts Integration Endorsement
will attend three educator events in the arts that vary from their concentrated art
form. Using these events as inspiration, educators will then compose three arts-integrated
lesson plans (one per event), implement said plans in their current classroom or teaching
setting, and reflect on this experience. They will also have the opportunity to receive
student feedback and refine their teaching paradigm accordingly. Throughout this process,
they will have the support of their district coaches and the Arts Education team at
Westminster University. |
| AED 07 |
Introduction to Arts Integration |
2 |
| Orientation to the effective integration of arts instruction into Utah schools. This
course is designed to serve as the orientation to the Elementary Arts Integration
Endorsement. Students in this course will: understand and recognize what is and is
not arts integration; understand the powerful impact ofarts integration by reviewing
the research; learn of the arts learning resources available in the state; and understand
how to proceed in pursuing the endorsement. |
| AED 08 |
Fine Arts: Implementation, Leadership, and Advocacy |
2 |
| This course meets the requirement in category 6 of the Elementary Arts Integration
Endorsement. Participants will explore strategies for implementation, leadership,and
advocacy of arts integration in elementary schools. |
| AED 09 |
Conference/Workshop Attendance in the Arts |
1 |
| This course meets the second requirement in category 4 of the Elementary Arts Integration
Endorsement. Participants will attend conferences and/or workshops of their own choosing
with themes that support arts education and integration. These workshops will need
to total a minimum of four days. |
