The ArtFusion Art Integration Mentors (AIM) program, in collaboration with Allied Arts of Yakima, Gallery One (Ellensburg), and ESD 105, will provide regional classroom teachers with a new kind of art integration experience. AIM will engage classroom teachers in the arts by providing hands-on art experiences that teach them basic art elements and principles. Teachers will team up with a regional art mentor who will assist the teacher in implementing an integrated art lesson to their students. Teachers will demonstrate an understanding of the basic art elements, which will allow them to instruct students on those skills through integrated arts instruction.
1) Teachers will learn, through hands on experiences, the basic visual arts elements and principals of design. 2) Teachers will learn the use of and administration of the Classroom Based Performance Assessements for the arts. 3) Teachers will learn effective strategies of art integration.