The US Department of Education has awarded Nebraska a $1.9 million grant to help transform its public schools.
The Teaching with Arts and Emerging Media (Art TEAMS) project is a five-year pilot project designed to promote teaching innovation through arts and emerging media in Nebraska public schools.
Emerging media is usually defined as communication using digital technology, usually with interactive components, such as virtual reality, social media apps, video creation technology, and artificial intelligence applications, per a press release.
The project is a collaboration between the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and a research team that includes Guy Trainin, professor of education in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education.
The first cohort of 16 teachers recruited from Nebraska public schools began an intensive, two-week curriculum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Teachers were teamed in pairsa science teacher and an art teacherto encourage them to think about how their work canintersect.
Their professional development continued throughout the 2022-23 academic year, as they began using what they had learned with students in their own classrooms.
The teachers attended additional professional learning workshops during summer 2023, and their development will continue through the 2023-24 academic year.
Teachers who complete the two-year curriculum earn 18 graduate- Read the Entire Article
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