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Program Description

HOW LTTA WORKS

LTTA is a rigorous, structured curriculum program that impacts the classroom on a daily basis. The program's comprehensive format incorporates ongoing professional development of teachers, professional development of artists, writing of lesson plans, curriculum development, in-class delivery and continuous assessment. LTTA offers lesson plans for all academic subjects.

LTTA establishes long-term partnerships between teachers and specially trained artist-educators who serve as change agents within the schools, promoting collaboration, risk taking, and continuous learning by teachers and students alike.


Examples of LTTA's Lesson Plans Include:
  • History Through Role Playing
  • Multiplication Through Songwriting
  • Math/Geometry lesson plans Through Visual Arts
  • Social Studies lesson plans Through Storytelling
  • Social Studies lesson plans Through In-Role Writing
  • Science lesson plans Through Dance
  • History Through Documentary Photography and Video
  • Structures and Mechanisms Through Building Scale Models
  • Language Arts lesson plans Through Global Percussion
 Review and download lesson plans today!

Sequence of LTTA Activities
  • Teachers select a subject focus
  • Teachers and artists create units linking an arts activity to 8-10 facts or concepts from the regulated curriculum
  • Teachers attend artist-led workshops to develop artistic tools
  • Each artist educator visits the classroom at least four times over a six-week period.
  • While the artist leads a classroom activity, teachers observe how individual students respond, and internalize new skills through active participation
  • Teachers and artists then complete learning profiles of each student
  • Teachers carry on activities between artist visits
  • Teachers and artists evaluate each other's performance, and comment on the effectiveness of the lesson plan in fostering student engagement and learning
 Goals of Learning Through the Arts Program
  • To promote the academic, social and emotional growth of students
  • To engage all children successfully in learning through participatory hands-on activities
  • To improve the academic achievement of all students
  • To provide teachers with a diverse array of instructional tools
  • To develop a strong sense of purpose and direction in every student
  • To promote creativity, problem solving and teamwork.
  • To provide opportunities for self-expression and self-discovery
  • To create a means to explore cultural, ethical and social issues.
 Visit LTTA's online lesson plans where teachers can download lesson plans for k-8 curriculum.

PROGRAM OFFERINGS


THE CORE PROGRAM
Literacy, numeracy and other curricula come alive for your students with the Core Program. LTTA artist-educators partner with teachers to create and facilitate custom-made lesson plans integrated with an art form. Students will dance, sing, paint, sculpt, drum, act, write, move and create their way through these engaging and relevant lessons. Professional development for teachers in differentiated instruction is inherent in these sessions.


MEDIA ARTS PROJECT (MAP)
In the Media Arts Project (MAP), students explore curriculum using digital technology and media as tools for learning, engagement and expression. The school's existing technology will be used for far more than just basic calculation and word processing.

Communication through multi-media presentations, video, digital photography and image manipulation are now a part of everyday life. Students will use these media art forms to explore language arts, math, social studies and other core curricula. A technical workshop for teachers is included in every MAP unit.


ACTIVE ECOLOGY
This program increases ecological literacy among students through the creative expression of social studies and science curricula.

Through the Active Ecology program, LTTA raises awareness of locally relevant environmental issues among students and empowers them to take action. For example, students might learn about climate change through movement, nonrenewable and renewable sources of energy through drama or sustainable development through drumming.


MEDIA LITERACY PROGRAM
This program guides students and teachers through the challenging exploration of media. Media artists and teachers work together using technology and media as tools for learning, engagement, expression and the development of critical thinking skills.

Using digital technology and the media arts, students will have hands-on opportunities to be the creators and not just the consumers of media texts. Media literacy units include five artist visits and a technical workshop with the teacher.

For more information on these exciting program options, please see our online brochure by clicking here.



LTTA Teacher Summer Institute
Making Videos: Media Literacy for the 21st Century. Our 3 day course will take place at the new TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, August 25th through August 27th, 2009. Develop exciting ways to engage your students and address curricular expectations in media arts and media literacy. To view our online brochure, click here To register, click here.

Visit LTTA's online lesson plans where teachers can download lesson plans for k-8 curriculum.


LTTA Workshops for Educators
Highly qualified LTTA facilitators are available to provide inspiring workshops for schools and conferences. Half-day or full-day workshops focusing on Literacy, Math, Science or Social Studies through music, drama, dance, visual art or literary arts are designed to motivate participants and meet your curricular goals.


Visit LTTA's online lesson plans where teachers can download lesson plans for k-8 curriculum.


LTTA Workshops for Corporations
The following workshops are a sample of the workshops available for your corporation or business:

  • Teamwork Through Global Percussion: Build teamwork, collaboration and creative thinking by experiencing the joy and excitement of drum circle.
  • Problem Solving Through Storytelling: Develop creative problem solving skills and new and innovative ways to resolve conflicts by listening to, exploring and learning about the value of story and metaphor.
  • Public Speaking Through Drama: Discover new techniques for presentations that will motivate and inspire.
  • Interpersonal Skills in the Office Through Drama: Find improved ways to communicate in the office and in management teams by role-playing, observation and playback theatre.
  • Strategic Planning Though Visual Art: Develop new ways to organize, prioritize and view the world as LTTA mentor artists share with you the ways in which they do this in their work as visual artists. These techniques will provide insight for all levels of strategic planning as well as being truly enjoyable.

For further information about Learning Through The Arts, please contact:

Jane Blake
Operations Manager
Learning Through The Arts


Tel: 1-888-408-LTTA
e mail:jane.blake@rcmusic.ca

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