CETA

CETA

Bailey's Elementary School is proud to have been selected as one of 7 schools in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area to be a member of the Kennedy Center’s Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA) program. Our school’s partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which began in 1999, helps teachers develop their expertise in integrating the arts with the teaching of other school subjects (such as history, language arts, science). This focus on arts-integrated instruction is designed to help all students learn with greater motivation and ease. To that end, the Kennedy Center and the schools work together to develop, implement, and evaluate an in-depth staff development program of courses, workshops, coaching, and study groups.

The CETA program uses a comprehensive definition of arts integration as its foundation.  This definition helps teachers, administrators, and teaching artists know exactly what arts integration is and how it differs from teaching the arts or just using the arts in the classroom.

What is Arts Integration? 

Arts integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form.  Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets evolving objectives in both.  

definition of arts integration

 

CETA Examples

Click on the link below to see examples of documentation that further indicate how students are engaged in the arts at Bailey’s!
CETA Examples

More information about CETA

More Information about CETA

CETA at Baileys

1st grade students demonstrate their knowledge of how plane shapes have different positions but remain the same shape through "Dancing Geometry".

1st grade students demonstrate their knowledge of how plane shapes have different positions but remain the same shape through "Dancing Geometry".

2nd grade students create a Tableau of a type of weather. Tableau is an arts integration strategy where students create a living picture with their bodies which involves independent thinking, cooperation, and flexibility

2nd grade students create a Tableau of a type of weather. Tableau is an arts integration strategy where students create a living picture with their bodies which involves independent thinking, cooperation, and flexibility

Creative Movement and Social Studies: Students create movements to represent how the Powhatan tribe used resources from their environment to build houses.

Creative Movement and Social Studies: Students create movements to represent how the Powhatan tribe used resources from their environment to build houses.

Kindergarten students create a tableau to demonstrate their understanding of a topic, discuss their viewpoint, or step into the role of a historical figure!

Kindergarten students create a tableau to demonstrate their understanding of a topic, discuss their viewpoint, or step into the role of a historical figure!

Kindergarten students engage in a concentration circle to strengthen their focus.

Kindergarten students engage in a concentration circle to strengthen their focus.

Preschoolers listen and participate in an oral storytelling on a flannel board of “Owl Babies” by Martin Waddell.

Preschoolers listen and participate in an oral storytelling on a flannel board of “Owl Babies” by Martin Waddell.

Preschoolers use shadow puppets to retell the poem “ Five Little Pumpkins.”

Preschoolers use shadow puppets to retell the poem “ Five Little Pumpkins.”

Preschoolers engage in various CETA strategies. Students use props to retell “The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything” by Linda Williams.

Preschoolers engage in various CETA strategies. Students use props to retell “The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything” by Linda Williams.

Preschoolers use Tableau to retell the story, "Three Billy Goats Gruff"

Preschoolers use Tableau to retell the story, "Three Billy Goats Gruff"