GITC TEACHING ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Provide Sequential, Gradual Release Training & Coaching
to Highly Engaged Teachers in their Tk-5 and Special Education Classrooms
Provide Sequential, Gradual Release Training & Coaching
to Highly Engaged Teachers in their Tk-5 and Special Education Classrooms
- Music Integration is a form of Arts Integration.
- Arts Integration plays a vital part of expanding the role of the arts in all learning.
- Music Integration can make a difference for every child, creating access to musical learning every day.
- It works as a creative process-based approach to learning any subject and teachers do a fine job of learning to lead
- Music integration done well can inform and impart learning music and academics at the same time.
- Integrating Music and Math, or English Language Arts, or music with any other subject can provide a creative, intuitive and active way for students to experience themselves and explore their gifts at the same time as they
- Music Integration complements Music Education! They go hand in hand.
- GITC believes that EVERY student deserves a well-rounded education that includes the Arts in its many forms.
GITC is a Community Arts Provider. We are not a program belonging to a school or school district.
We are an independent nonprofit serving in schools around the United States and in parts of Canada. Being a 501(c)3 organization lets us serve even when school budgets for the arts are in peril. In most cases, we owe this ability to our amazing foundation grantors, our business sponsors and individual donors.
In the case of Los Angeles and San Diego, the school districts help a lot!
GITC offers teaching artist residencies as part of a complete education in the arts. We work with certificated music educators and school music programs to expand the reach of music into general and special classrooms as well as Home Hospital settings.
We team up with GITC-trained classroom teachers to co-plan and co-teach lessons in literacy, math and social emotional learning - through music!
The co-teaching model helps classroom teachers build their music leadership skills with support from our teaching artists to artfully employ music making and composing as an its own learning modality.
The equal, two-way integration of marrying academic and music lesson content fully engages and excites students, leading them to develop deeper conceptual understanding and greater mastery of skills.
We are an independent nonprofit serving in schools around the United States and in parts of Canada. Being a 501(c)3 organization lets us serve even when school budgets for the arts are in peril. In most cases, we owe this ability to our amazing foundation grantors, our business sponsors and individual donors.
In the case of Los Angeles and San Diego, the school districts help a lot!
GITC offers teaching artist residencies as part of a complete education in the arts. We work with certificated music educators and school music programs to expand the reach of music into general and special classrooms as well as Home Hospital settings.
We team up with GITC-trained classroom teachers to co-plan and co-teach lessons in literacy, math and social emotional learning - through music!
The co-teaching model helps classroom teachers build their music leadership skills with support from our teaching artists to artfully employ music making and composing as an its own learning modality.
The equal, two-way integration of marrying academic and music lesson content fully engages and excites students, leading them to develop deeper conceptual understanding and greater mastery of skills.
GITC OFFERS TEACHING ARTIST RESIDENCIES TO
HIGHLY ENGAGED CLASSROOM TEACHERS & THEIR STUDENTS!
GITC's Sequential Gradual Release Teaching Artist Residencies involve weekly co-planning between the teaching artist and the participating classroom teacher.
Each residency visit lasts up to one hour and most take place just once a week.
Our residencies last from five to twenty weeks depending on the goals and available funding. A ten week residency is our normal length.
While classroom teachers are involved in a residency, they may concurrently be participating in a weekly after school GITC course. This is recommended but is not required.
GITC residencies follow an "I Do, We Do, You Do" model.
I DO
During weeks 1-3, our teaching artist leads, models, and includes the classroom teacher in music making. The classroom teacher teaches the academic content that relates to the music, and includes our teaching artist in that process. Both learn from each other and work as a team.
WE DO
During weeks 4-6, the classroom teacher and teaching artist plan their lessons together. This gives the classroom teacher the opportunity to choose musical activities to fit the academic content.
The classroom teacher begins to initiate musical activities such as warm ups, rhythm games, chants, counting in the strummers and singers for songs, and steps up to try out some independent song leading. They have the full involvement and support of their teaching artist. The two teachers play and sing with the students together throughout the lesson.
YOU DO
During weeks 7-9, the classroom teacher builds their capacity to teach songs, lead student songwriting, and make connections to academic and SEL content using GITC techniques and scaffolding to support students' numeracy, language and literacy skills.
The teaching artist supports this effort, demonstrating and leading techniques and activities that help the classroom teacher gain confidence and a wider music integration repertoire. The classroom teacher leads the class more and more often.
YOU DO IT, SOLO!
We call Week 10 our Celebration of Learning! Teachers and students may invite others to join the class for a musical lesson in which they lead independently. Guests might be family members or a visiting class from next door. Students share their musical process. At the end, everyone in attendance can sing and play a song together. The classroom teinfo@guitarsintheclassroom.orgacher videotapes the class to provide the classroom teacher with proof of their accomplishments as well as a video they can reference in the future.
Want to visit a GITC residency classroom or request a residency?
Please contact our office at (619) 578-2326 or email us at info@guitarsintheclassroom.org.
We are grateful to all of the individual donors who sponsor
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We thank the National Endowment for the Arts for supporting Teaching Artist Residencies for Inclusion and Special Education!
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