Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
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Arts and Humanities Education
The Pacific Center for the Arts and Humanities in Education (PCAHE) at PREL
(PCAHE) provides technical assistance and capacity building for arts education organizations such as the Pacific Arts Councils (PAC). PCAHE also offers professional development workshops to improve learning in and through the arts and workshops and presentations integrating storytelling, music, visual arts, history and aesthetics are offered to help educators create exciting standards-based arts and humanities learning opportunities. Courses focusing on using the arts and humanities as vehicles for learning in other content areas such as literacy or science education are also offered.
Workshops
Picturing Science
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Participants learn to combine image and word by utilizing digital camera photography, science research, writing, and art. Focus is on the scientific inquiry process and ways in which to use methods of art criticism to help describe, observe, and form hypotheses. Observational drawing is used to develop academic and foundational vocabulary. This process offers students opportunities to express what they know and have learned in a content area using alternative methods. The end product is a Web-based student showcase of written and artistic work. http://picturing-science.prel.org
By Word of Mouth
Audience: Teachers
Examine various ways to use storytelling to improve literacy and social studies. Make learning more exciting in this introduction to incorporating storytelling into classroom learning. Participants will use the PREL-developed By Word of Mouth booklet for educators.
Image to Word – Word to Image
Audience: K-12 Teachers
By integrating art, language arts, and technology with content areas, participants learn to create personally and culturally relevant images for students to stimulate their reading, build their vocabulary, and improve their comprehension and descriptive writing. Observational drawing is used to develop academic and foundational vocabulary. This process results in rich, descriptive images and words that help the student detect patterns, draw using observational visual research, use new descriptive vocabulary, and combine unrelated ideas into something new.
Music to Teach Content Across the Curriculum
Audience: Teachers
Music can be used creatively to teach math, science, health, and social studies content. Learn songs that introduce math number facts, geometry, algebra, science and nature, and food and nutrition. Experiments with sound and the making of simple musical instruments will reinforce basic science concepts, while an inquiry into ethnomusicology will lend itself to social studies concepts. Learn how to integrate music into the classroom in a relaxed and non-threatening environment. No formal music training is necessary.
Music and The Pacific Culture
Audience: Teachers, Artists
Participants will learn how to introduce culture through music and movement. Educators and artists discuss and learn simple childrens songs from Pacific Cultures. Participants will receive a copy of Cultural Studies and Songs for Children.
Standards-Based Art Education
Audience: Teachers, Artists
Participants discuss and learn about standards-based arts education and resources. They learn to offer students exciting curriculum that includes art production, art history, aesthetics and art criticism. Participants receive art education resources, a teacher resource binder and briefing paper titled “Taking a Canoe to the Moon: Comprehensive Art Education for the Pacific.”
Weaving Pacific Art into Classroom Learning
Audience: K-12 Teachers
Participants learn about standards-based arts education and design lessons that offer students a comprehensive arts education curriculum. All lessons focus on art production, art history, aesthetics, and art criticism. Participants are introduced to new and exciting arts education resources. At least eight different classroom art materials are demonstrated.
Programs
Pacific Center for the Arts and Humanities in Education (PCAHE)
Websites
Pacific Arts Councils Network (PAC Net)
Pacific Language Early Readers
Picturing Science
Products
Booklets:
By Word of Mouth: A Storytelling Guide for the Classroom
Books:
Island Alphabet Books
Papers:
Image to Word—Word to Image
Storytelling: The Heart and Soul of Education
Taking a Canoe to the Moon: Comprehensive Art Education for the Pacific
Using the Visual Environment as Access Literacy
Multimedia
CDs:
Art of the Pacific Islands
Pacific Language Early Readers
Contact PREL
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
Phone:
(808) 441-1300
U.S. Toll-free Phone:
(800) 377-4773
AskPREL
Phone:
(808) 441-1300
U.S. Toll-free Phone:
(800) 377-4773
AskPREL
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