Crossing
Borders/Breaking Boundaries is an integrated program
supporting performance, scholarship, and education in the Fine Arts.
Developed especially for Maryland middle and high school educators in
dance, music, theater, and the visual arts, the institute will:
•
EXPOSE YOU to new scholarship in the arts and arts education
• ENGAGE YOU in
an exploration of new performance possibilities within and across the
arts disciplines
• SUPPORT YOU in
creating new teaching units and lesson plans that incorporate Maryland’s
Essential Learner Outcome guideline for the Fine Arts
• PREPARE YOU to
work collaboratively with teachers in your own and other arts disciplines,
so that you can
• STRENGTHEN the
position of the arts in your school
This eight-day
residential program, now in its third year, offers a core curriculum
of lectures, hands-on performance classes, and collaborative lesson-planning
workshops. Additional activities include museum field trips, film screenings,
self-guided library research, technology training, and an Exchange Day,
where participants present and trade their newly developed lesson plans.
After the institute, all lesson plans will be archived electronically
for the benefit of the participants and teachers around the world. Participants
who complete the program will be eligible to receive 5 MSDE Continuing
Professional Development credits.
Enrollment in the
program is free of charge to all Maryland public school teachers, and
includes tution plus room and board. (A non-refundable application fee
of $30 does apply.) Residency is required
during the first four nights (July 14-17); this allows participants
to enjoy a range of evening activities and is crucial in fostering community
among teachers from all over the state. Residency is optional
during the last three nights (July 18-20), but participants must attend
all scheduled activities, including weekend
events, in order to earn MSDE credit. Applicants who suppose to do so
should secure room and board for the last three nights by checking the
appropriate box on the application form. Accommodations and food will
be provided on the campus of the University of Maryland.
THE
PROGRAM
The
Renaissance is a term generally understood, but difficult to define.
It is associated with the recovery or revival of classical Greek and
Augustan Latin, and thus with a return to classical sources. It begins
in Italy in the arts, as early as the fourteenth century, and announces
itself in England in literature in the last quarter of the sixteenth
century with the establishment of a rich new literary culture by Sidney,
Spenser, and Shakespeare. For historians of science, the period is as
fertile: it evokes a radically changed map of space, and a bold new
use of mathematics to support the new empiricism.
During the course
of this year’s institute, participants will enjoy a guided study
of some examples of Italian Renaissance architecture, art, sculpture,
dance, and music, and drama and poetry of the English Renaissance. In
lectures and performance classes, participants will investigate the
artistic innovations and scientific explorations that defined Renaissance
life and thought. Participants will also examine contemporary mass media
interpretations of the Renaissance in England on film. They will visit
local galleries and see firsthand Renaissance artists’ appropriation
of classical principles even as they forged something “new.”
Teams of middle and high school teachers will collaborate, too, conducting
group discussions that will help each team to create interdisciplinary
lesson plans around a mutually agreed-upon topic. Individual teachers
will submit these lesson plans to a growing electronic archive, created
for teacher use. Finally, teams will adapt a scene from a Shakespeare
play, modifying the text to foreground their unique interests and collective
subject areas. These lesson plans and play texts will be of use immediately
in the new school year.
Teachers are urged to apply in interdisciplinary
teams of 2-4, formed from the different arts disciplines at their schools,
as well as from other disciplines, such as social studies, English,
math, science, and the romance languages. Teachers who apply
individually will be placed in teams at our discretion. Please indicate
on your application form whether you are applying as a member of a team
or individually.
For more information
on this year's program, contact the Center at 301-405-6830.
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