P.S. ARTS is a year-long, comprehensive in-school arts program that provides instruction to every child in our participating schools. Our curriculum is sequential, each year building upon the previous years' foundation of child centered skills in music, visual arts, dance and drama. P.S. ARTS instruction is aligned with the California Visual and Performing ARTS Content Standards and is monitored by independent evaluators and P.S. ARTS Department Chairs, school administration, classroom teachers and senior staff.
Classroom instruction devise arts activities that make use of what Howard Gardner calls our multiple intelligences - to stimulate critical thinking, problem solving and higher cognitive processes in arts and academic disciplines. In addition to in-school instruction, children participate in field trips to museums, music and drama performances, arts galleries, and enrichment after-school classes in the arts.
P.S. ARTS programs increase classroom teacher's capacity and confidence in the arts, relating to their curriculum, building a wider constituency for the arts in schools and community. Our faculty and staff are active in the educational community, offering arts-related workshops for classroom teachers. Workshops are designed to inspire and instruct teachers how to integrate creative expression and the arts into the core curriculum.
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