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American Alliance for Theatre and Education is a membership organization for theater professionals including theater educators. Membership benefits include access to theatrical resources for classrooms, curriculum, and students including new plays to consider for youth productions. This site offers information on conferences, publications, resources and job opportunities.
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Americans for the Arts is a nonprofit membership organization for advancing the arts in America. Their website features information on policy, advocacy, new research, and professional development for educators. Membership provides access to publications, connects you with other professionals, and allows for the promotion of arts advocacy.
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ARTSEDGE offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment. Website includes a searchable database of lesson plans in visual art, music, dance, and theatre. Many lesson offer cross-curricular teaching opportunities in non-arts areas such as language arts, math, science, and social studies.
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Artslynx is a navigational tool that provides valuable information for educators, students, scholars and researchers in the arts. Includes links to dance, theatre, visual art, music, film, poetry, arts advocacy, and education resources on the web.
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Dance Educators of America is a dance professionals' organization. Membership benefits include discounted rates to seminars and conferences, training materials, and eligibility to participate in members only competitions. This site includes information about scholarships, professional development and competitions. There is also a newsletter.
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This website is hosted by the National Endowment for Humanities and contains information focused on Art, Culture, Literature, Language Arts, Foreign Language, History and Social Studies. Featured are sections on lesson plans, professional opportunities, references, web links and a monthly feature topic.
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More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly. Choose the subject area of your choice such as Arts and Music (theatre and film is contained in art and music) and FREE will take you to websites that include biographical information about particular artists, reproduction of artwork, sound recordings, videos, etc.
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This website focuses on the visual arts in all of their dimensions, serving both general audiences and specialized professionals. The education page of this website offers resources for educators including professional development opportunities and a guide to building better lessons. Also included are lesson plans and a teacher's exchange. |
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The National Association for Music Education is a membership organization involved in all levels of music education from preschool through college and in all areas of music education including general music, choral, band, orchestral, and music teacher education. Membership awards you access to publications, discounts, instrument insurance. Website includes lesson plans, teaching guides, articles, and message boards.
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The National Art Education Association is a membership organization for teachers, retirees, students, and institutions. Membership benefits include subscriptions to publications and discounts to conventions. Website features links to advocacy, grant, curriculum, museum, and student websites.
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The Program for Interdisciplinary Learning through the Arts (PILA) website offers web links, journal articles, music suggestions, teaching materials and a calendar of professional development opportunities for interdisciplinary arts education.
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Web English Teacher presents K-12 English / Language Arts teaching resources such as lesson plans, videos, biography, e-texts, study guides, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities. This website is divided into sections including Children's Literature, Grammar/Mechanics, Journalism/Yearbook, Literature/Prose, Poetry, Speech/Debate, Young Adult Fiction, and English as a Second Language (ESOL).
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