ARTS EDUCATION
Maximizing Benefits of Young Audiences Programs
How can I maximize the benefits of a YA program?
Select a program that aligns with your curriculum needs.
Schedule a program for your class. Although auditorium performances are entertaining and educational, the maximum learning occurs in a classroom setting where the artist interacts personally with the students.
Utilize the study guide and its curriculum connections before and after the program.
Schedule your YA programs to align with the study of certain topics.
Participate in the programs with your students. Participation gives you the experience necessary to reinforce the students’ learning later in the classroom.
How can a YA experience potentially help my students on the TAKS test?
A number of widely recognized studies show that students who use the arts in their learning often not only perform better on standardized tests but also are more engaged in learning.
Each of the YA programs has a study guide that closely aligns it with TEKS standards. Use of these connections will help reinforce curriculum concepts.
Since the YA programs make learning fun, your students are engaged in the educational experience.
What is the purpose of the study guide?
The study guide is designed to maximize the connection of the YA program with your curriculum.
In the study guide you will find activities for before and after the visit in which you can use the program to reinforce learning in your grade-level TEKS.
How do I use the study guide?
Become familiar with the artist and the intent of the program yourself.
Share your knowledge with the students prior to the program.
Share with your students the performance expectations so that they are able to give their entire attention to the program and maximize their learning.
Go over the vocabulary with your students prior to the program.
Do at least one of the pre-visit activities with your students. You can select the activity according to your curriculum needs.
After the program, do at least two of the post-visit activities with your students, according to your curriculum needs.
Questions?
Call Education/Program Director Lucinda Presley at (903) 533-8011 ext. 26.
Arts Education Online Directory
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American Music Conference - The Voice of Musicmaking
AMC's goal is to build credibility for music and music education, especially at an early age, and to expand that portion of the population that enjoys and makes its own music.
ArtsEdge
ARTSEDGE — the National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ARTSEDGE empowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects. ARTSEDGE offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment. ARTSEDGE is a program of the Kennedy Center.
Americans for the Arts
Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. With more than 40 years of service, we are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.
Ballet Tyler
“The purpose of Ballet Tyler is to provide opportunities for both dancers and East Texas audiences to experience the fine art of dance at the highest possible quality. This is accomplished through classroom instruction, special workshops, and reasonably-priced performances. Ballet Tyler helps provide scholarship assistance to deserving dancers for advanced studies.”
East Texas Symphony Orchestra
Education World
In the spring of 1996, the founders of Education World recognized the need for a Web site that would make the Internet easier for educators to use. They wanted to create a home for educators on the Internet, a place where teachers could gather and share ideas. They wanted to create a complete online resource where educators could start each day to find the lesson plans and research materials they were looking for. The result is Education World, the Educator's Best Friend, a resource that includes:a search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet; original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts; site reviews; daily features and columns; teacher and principal profiles; Wire Side Chats with the important names in education; employment listings.
From the Top
“From the Top encourages and celebrates the commitment of young people to music and the arts. Through our nationally broadcast radio show, our in-school programs and our website, we strive to give dedicated young classical musicians a platform to express themselves and inspire others. They are not only the future of classical music, they are our future, and they deserve our full support and encouragement.”
From the Top is coming to Tyler! The Taping will be October 12 at 7:00 p.m. at Caldwell Auditorium. Presenting partners are Young Audiences of Northeast Texas, East Texas Symphony Orchestra, Tyler Independent School District and Tyler Junior College. Ticket information will be online soon!
The Lesson Plans Page
2500+ free lesson plans and educator discussion forums
Meet the Composer
Meet the Composer was founded in 1974 as a project of the New York State Council on the Arts. Led by the visionary composer John Duffy, Meet The Composer sought to enable composers to make a living writing music, and to increase their visible presence as creative artists.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Opera Guild Education Department
Music Friends
Sponsored by MENC: The National Association for Music Education, an organization of nearly 120,000 music educators, MusicFriends raises awareness about music education in schools and communities across the nation.
National Endowment for the Arts
“A great nation deserves great art.”
PBS’ Arts and Literature Teachers’ Resource Site
Sanford Art Adventures - A Lifetime of Color
“A resource site for creative individuals” from the Sanford Corporation (they make Sharpie markers!)
Texas Cultural and Arts Network (TCAnet)
The website of Texas Commission on the Arts. “The goal of the Texas Cultural and Arts Network (TCAnet) is to serve as a one-stop location for the arts and cultural industry in Texas to do business electronically.”
Tyler Civic Theatre Center
“Our Mission: To provide quality live entertainment produced by non-professionals, to maintain a 21st Century facility that will exemplify our community's long-standing love of the theatre, and to continue a forum for educational experiences involving children and adults.”
Tyler Museum of Art’s Teacher’s Corner
Young Audiences, Inc.
We are one of 32 chapters of this national organization which has been advocating quality arts education for all children since 1952.
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