Maine Open Educational Resources (OER)

Building the capacity of Maine educators to use technology, and engaging teaching and learning strategies, to prepare students for college, career, and meaningful lives in their communities.

Visit the OER Visual and Performing Arts Integration wiki to see their progress at: http://maineoerartsintegration.wikispaces.com

Goal 1. Organize the team to research best practices integrating VPA in content areas.

Goal 2. Create and disseminate RFP to establish five promising collaborative practices.

Goal 3. Develop a model to provide professional development using five chosen collaborative pilot practices.

Goal 4. Create and imbed pre and post testing for students to evaluate success of VPA techniques as a content structure.

Goal 5. Set up regional PD sessions to pilot promising VPA practices with educators.

Goal 6. Host statewide conference to provide regional trainees opportunity to reflect on, share learning, and improve prior VPA practice.

Goal 7. Share findings and pilot models with educators throughout the state both face to face and through learncentral.org.

Team Leaders:

Therese Bernier Burns
teamwork@syntiro.org

Argy Nestor
argy.nestor@maine.gov

Carol Trimble
ctrimble@maineartsed.org

Sara Hougan
sara@hougan.com

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