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Teaching-Artist Residencies
 
Choral Arts has a roster of highly trained teaching-artists available to work with teachers in music-integrated residencies.  In the residency, the teacher and teaching-artist work collaboratively to use music to augment a current unit of study.  Both teachers and students benefit from the learning experiences provided through participation in a residency.  Residencies align with Choral Arts' curriculum publications and opportunities are available for residency participants to attend Choral Arts' Concerts for Students.  Choral Arts provides residencies on a fee basis.  Please read the information below and then call or e-mail to set up a program.
       

 
 
Teachers Learn:
  • Techniques for integrating music into classroom curricula
  • Tools for utilizing Choral Arts' curriculum publications and recordings
  • To utilize the music standards
Students Learn:
  • The importance of music to a period of history or culture
  • To express themselves through a new medium
Past Residencies have focused on:
  • Music and instruments from specific Latin American countries
  • The historical and cultural context of Misa Criolla
  • Andean/Latin American cultural celebrations
  • Songs of protest and everyday voices against injustice
  • The power of the written word (lyrics, poetry, and text)
  • The roots of the Civil Rights Movement (slavery, spirituals, and the Civil War)
 
Topics
  • Music of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Latin American Music and Culture
Components
  • Two teacher and teaching-artist planning meetings
  • Five teaching-artist lessons
  • One teacher and teaching-artist evaluation meeting
Optional Components
Component Descriptions
Application
Please review the following questions before calling Choral Arts for more information.  These questions will be asked in the initial phone conversation so that Choral Arts can assign you to a teaching-artist suited to your classroom and curricular goals.  Please be sure to review the component descriptions prior to contacting Choral Arts as these descriptions will help you in answering the application questions.
  • Basics:
    • What Residency Topic are you interested in? 
    • How many teachers/classrooms will be participating?
    • What grade level(s) of students will be participating?
    • When in the school year do you expect to teach the unit?
    • Do the participating teachers have any experience with arts-integration, if so what?
    • Are you interested in any of the optional components? 

 

  • Goals and Objectives:
    • What is the focus, theme or big idea of your unit?
    • Are there particular standards for education that you plan to address?
    • What are your professional learning goals for participating in this residency?
    • What are your student learning goals/objectives for this residency?
    • What do you hope the teaching-artist will add to your unit?
Fees*
  • Basic Fee Structure, please call or e-mail for further details | 202.244.3669 x101 or education@choralarts.org
    • $1,000/initial class for residency without optional components
    • $500 for each additional class period with the same teacher
    • $30 for single class registration at one of Choral Arts' Concerts for Students
    • $75 for set of classroom materials (includes curriculum and CD plus additional topic and grade specific resources)
    • Additional travel fees required for schools outside of the DC metro area

* All fees are subject to change.