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Click on any of the buttons below to go to the Teacher Support Subpage for content specific content to support you and your students in the art classroom!
Click on any of the buttons below to go to the Teacher Support Subpage for content specific content to support you and your students in the art classroom!
Universal Design for Learning Supports Dropdown Menu
Universal Design for Learning Supports Dropdown Menu
UDL Support Request Form - Click on this link or scroll to the bottom of this page to fill out the UDL Support Request Form to request help from one of our BTS Professional Development Partners here at the U! Make sure to identify day(s) and time(s) that work best as well as the specific area(s) you would like additional support.
UDL Support Request Form - Click on this link or scroll to the bottom of this page to fill out the UDL Support Request Form to request help from one of our BTS Professional Development Partners here at the U! Make sure to identify day(s) and time(s) that work best as well as the specific area(s) you would like additional support.
Engagement - Guidelines & Considerations - Visit the UDL Guidelines Engagement page for a deeper dive into developing lessons that take into consideration the individual interests and learning styles of students.
Engagement - Guidelines & Considerations - Visit the UDL Guidelines Engagement page for a deeper dive into developing lessons that take into consideration the individual interests and learning styles of students.
Representation - Guidelines & Considerations - Visit the UDL Guidelines Representation page learn how to increase options provided to students in order to support student learning and the transfer of learning in the classroom.
Representation - Guidelines & Considerations - Visit the UDL Guidelines Representation page learn how to increase options provided to students in order to support student learning and the transfer of learning in the classroom.
Action & Expression- Guidelines & Considerations - Visit the UDL Guidelines Action & Expression page to expand options students are allowed to navigate through their learning environment
Action & Expression- Guidelines & Considerations - Visit the UDL Guidelines Action & Expression page to expand options students are allowed to navigate through their learning environment
What Do the 7 Principles of Universal Design Look Like in the Art Room? - Visit the Art of Education page to read through suggestions for applying UDL principles within the art classroom. Although this is catered more towards visual arts, there are many great points to consider for any classroom such as adaptive materials and designing slide presentations that are easier to read.
What Do the 7 Principles of Universal Design Look Like in the Art Room? - Visit the Art of Education page to read through suggestions for applying UDL principles within the art classroom. Although this is catered more towards visual arts, there are many great points to consider for any classroom such as adaptive materials and designing slide presentations that are easier to read.
Art Nights & Informances
Art Nights & Informances
Click on the button above to see a variety of photos and videos demonstrating different ways specialists in our region have displayed artwork or showcased informances in their schools. If you like what you see and want to know how it was done, email alexis.g.olsen@utah.edu for information or to be connected with the specialist for firsthand insights to their brilliance!
Have an upcoming Art Night or Informance? Click link below to complete the form in Canvas and let us know details of your event. We would love to come out and support you!
Check out any of the headers below to find a collection of links to outside resources that can be used to aid in your arts classrooms. Know of any quality sites or apps not listed? Email alexis.g.olsen@utah.edu with the link and a little info about why you find the site or app useful so I can add it to the list. Sharing is caring!
Check out any of the headers below to find a collection of links to outside resources that can be used to aid in your arts classrooms. Know of any quality sites or apps not listed? Email alexis.g.olsen@utah.edu with the link and a little info about why you find the site or app useful so I can add it to the list. Sharing is caring!
Lesson Plan Websites - All Art Contents Dropdown Menu
Lesson Plan Websites - All Art Contents Dropdown Menu
PBS Learning Media - "PBS Utah and PBS have curated FREE, curriculum-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for Utah teachers like you."
PBS Learning Media - "PBS Utah and PBS have curated FREE, curriculum-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for Utah teachers like you."
Share My Lesson - Browse through hundreds of lessons shared on this free to use platform.. Allows you to filter by subject, grade level, and even common core state standards.
Share My Lesson - Browse through hundreds of lessons shared on this free to use platform.. Allows you to filter by subject, grade level, and even common core state standards.
The Kennedy Center - Choose from a range of grade levels and topics surrounding the arts and arts integration.
The Kennedy Center - Choose from a range of grade levels and topics surrounding the arts and arts integration.
Classroom & Behavioral Support Sites/Apps Dropdown Menu
Classroom & Behavioral Support Sites/Apps Dropdown Menu
Classroomscreen - Turn your computer screen into a whiteboard through this website app. Includes customizable widgets such as class poll, digital timers, name randomizer, sound level, and more!
Literacy Resources
Literacy Resources
Resources for the Classroom:
Storyline online - If you have not used this before, this is a great resource! Actors read picture books aloud and they are animated using the illustrations.
PBS Books Storytime - A resource developed by the PBS Books channel to offer author read-aloud stories and book features for educators, libraries and families. The segments feature children’s book authors and others in “Read-Aloud” segments and/or video features on new and best-loved children’s books.
Vooks - An entire library of storybooks brought to life through animation, read-aloud narration, engaging music & sound, & read-along text. Vooks is always free for teachers’ classroom use on one device.
First Book (First Book National Book Bank) - A non-profit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs serving children in need, from birth to age 18. The benefits of registering with First Book, includes free books from the Free Book National Book Bank, low-cost books and resources from the First Book Marketplace at 50-90 percent off retail price, and potential funding from First Book’s corporate partners and generous donors.
Story Time from Space - A project of the Global Space Education Foundation, which sends children’s books to the International Space Station. While in space, astronauts record themselves on video reading these books to the children of Earth and share them on the Story Time from Space website.
Read Your World (formerly Multicultural Children's Book Day) - Providing teachers with free, diverse, inclusive, and multicultural books for their classroom libraries.
Read, Wonder, and Learn! - From author Kate Messner, this website provides a compilation of resources from favorite authors and illustrators that include everything from first-chapter and picture book video read-alouds to drawing and writing mini-lessons.
We Need Diverse Books’ - Helps educators incorporate diverse books by diverse authors into their schools, libraries, and educational organizations. Educators Making a Difference Grants provide up to $2,000 per educator and can be used toward buying diverse titles, hosting diversity-focused student or community events, diversity audits of existing collections, or any other project that supports diverse literature.
Better World Books - Is an organization that receives books from libraries, booksellers, book drives, and through community Drop Boxes, and then sells what they can to raise money for literacy, donate books in good condition, and recycle the balance. Make a request to become a donation recipient.
Resources for Students:
Dolly Parton Imagination Library - A program that mails out age appropriate books to children that register in their program. These are free books each month if they qualify (most will) and mailed at no cost to the family!
Multicultural Children's Book Day - Providing teachers with free, diverse, inclusive, and multicultural books for their classroom libraries.
Reading Is Fundamental’s flagship Books for Ownership program ensures that kids living in poverty have access to new, free books of their choice and participate in reading motivation activities.
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