FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MARYGROVE COLLEGE TO HOST ARTS-INFUSED EDUCATION TRAINING AUGUST 21-23

DETROIT, MI, MAY 18, 2006 – Marygrove College’s Institute for Arts-Infused Education (AIE) announces a three-day intensive training workshop for artists, principals, in-service and pre-service teachers August 21-23, 2006, on its campus in Detroit. The AIE has designed these training sessions as a means to support the growing field of arts integration into the K-12 core curriculum and providing professional development for those interested in and/or working in the field.

The intensive will have several areas of concentration:

1) Teacher track: performance and inclusive experiences in each art discipline: drama, dance, visual arts, music and technology arts, and basic terminology to assist in future collaborations with artists

2) Artist track: basic classroom management techniques, how to identify and include the Michigan standards and benchmarks in lesson planning, age-appropriate lesson-planning, how to teach to the multiple intelligences, cognitive learning basics, etc.

3) Combined track: artists and teachers together experience arts-infused units and co-plan/team-teach units themselves

4) Professional track: participants look at the field regionally and nationally and gather information on resources available and how to implement arts-infused programs in a specific school. Participants receive information on the research and practice in the field.

5) Assessment: how to make AIE work

Marygrove College established the Institute for Arts-Infused Education in February 2006 to improve learning by kindergarten through 12^th grade students. The Institute creates innovative models for teaching the core curriculum through the arts and will promote the systemic integration of the arts into the K through 12 core curriculum.

“Arts-infused education is not the teaching of art,” said Mary Lou Greene, Institute director. “It’s using art to teach core subject areas. It’s a methodology wherein teachers use all of the arts (visual arts, technology, drama, music and movement) and effectively touch all of the Multiple Intelligences in teaching reading, math, science, etc.”

For more information about the three-day intensive training sessions, please contact Mary Lou Greene, AIE director, at mgreene@marygrove.edu or 313-927-1853. SBCEUs will be offered.

Marygrove College is a private liberal arts college located at 8425 W. McNichols Rd. in Detroit. More than 1,200 students attend classes in its undergraduate and graduate programs in education, business, human resource management, social justice, social work, science, theater, music, the fine arts and many others. Call 866-313-1927 or visit www.marygrove.edu.

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