Using Artful Learning in the Collaboratory Mr' David Brothman, Mr' Jeffrey Hollenstein, Ms' Kelli Ho

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Using Artful Learning in the CollaboratoryMr.
David Brothman, Mr. Jeffrey Hollenstein, Ms.
Kelli Hohman, Mr. David Zablocki, Ms. Deborah
SchultzNorth Chicago SD 187, North Chicago, IL

• This project is based on Leonard Bernsteins
  Artful Learning
• Students are engaged in meaningful lessons
  through use of the Arts
• Students will explore, inquire, create and
  reflect through the use of the Collaboratorys
  resources.

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Artful Learning and Educators

• Empowering Educators
• Artful Learning professional development
• empowers educators to design engaging,
  content-rich, interdisciplinary Bernstein Units
  of Study
• actively engages students
• is flexible enough to recognize the value of
  programs that target specific academic
  deficiencies and utilize them in unit development

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• By placing the arts at the center of learning,
  Artful Learning helps schools and communities
  achieve educational excellence by promoting our
  rich cultural legacy as a catalyst for lifelong
  learning.

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The Artful Learning Program
Artful Learning is an arts-based school
improvement model Inspired by the vision Of the
great American Composer Leonard Bernstein.
(The Artful Learning Sequence)
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The Artful Learning sequence in the classroom
looks like..
Experience Listening, viewing, moving,
discussing writing about,
imitating Inquire Reading, interviewing,
experimenting, comparing,
categorizing, questioning, exploring Create
Brainstorming, rehearsing, shaping, presenting
performing, informing, sharing,
building Reflect Journaling, mapping,
responding, reviewing analyzing,
critiquing, applying, envisioning
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Lessons are created using concepts that are
timeless and universal (Enduring Understanding).
Students will then experience a Masterwork
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Concept Conflict
Guernica by Picasso and Relativity by Escher
Masterworks
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Student work in the Exploration Sequence of
Artful Learning
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Teacher Comment on the Inquiry Sequence of
Artful Learning
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Leadership Masterwork

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Students will use the Collaboratory to respond to
the deepening (essential) question.
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Concept Leadership

• This example shows a combination of the
  Exploration and Creation phase of Artful
  Learning.
• Using the Collaboratory, students can create
  surveys and see the results. This helps them
  answer either deepening questions that they are
  asked to Inquire about.

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5th Grade Students at Work Becoming Community
Leaders

• Ms. Schultz works with her students to input
  survey data to the Collaboratory

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One of Ms. Schultzs 5th graders analyzing a
Collaboratory Survey .
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Concept Freedom
The Collaboratory gives students the opportunity
to look at masterworks that the teacher has
uploaded to the media repository.
Students will use the Collaboratory to respond to
the deepening (essential) question.
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Student Creation Song

• Students can also use the Collaboratory to
  upload their own versions of Masterworks as well
  as media used in the Creation phase.

Students create a Rap to better understand the
Bill of Rights
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Contact Information

• Mr. David Brothman
• North Chicago School District 187
• [phone] ext. 226
• dbrothman_at_nchi.lfc.edu