2006 Summer Teacher Institute: Elevate! Using Hip-Hop to Educate
Contact info: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum
Cleveland, Ohio
June 26-30, 2006
Do you want to use popular music to teach across the K-12 curriculum? Do you want to deepen your students’ engagement with language arts, geography, history, social studies, music, and beyond by bringing into the classroom an art form that speaks to students?
The Summer Teacher Institute brings K-12 teachers together with arts education specialists, activists, historians, curriculum designers, and performers to learn how to use popular music to teach across the K-12 curriculum and energize the classroom.
This summer, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will join with The Hip-Hop Association to present a special edition of the Summer Teacher Institute that will focus on Hip-Hop. The week-long Institute combines the resources of the Museum and the Hip-Hop Association, including curriculum models from the Museum’s award-winning Rockin’ the Schools program and innovative programs drawn from the Hip-Hop Association’s annual Hip-Hop Education Summits. This provides a forum for the most cutting-edge discussions about popular music, art and culture in the classroom.
The Museum offers the Institute in collaboration with Cuyahoga Community College and the Center for the Study of the Arts at Cleveland State University. Optional graduate credit is available through Cleveland State University for an additional cost.
2006 Schedule
2006 Schedule Monday, June 26 – Friday, June 30, 2006
8:30 am – 5:30 pm daily, with some additional evening hours
Final schedule to be confirmed…more details coming soon.
Participants will…
learn from arts education specialists, curriculum designers, historians, and performers through multi-media presentations, workshops, and lectures.
join teachers from around the country to examine and share effective materials and methods.
explore various classroom applications of hip-hop, considering the many ways music can be used to engage the hip-hop generation.
identify K-12 resources and lesson plans that support particular instructional goals for their classrooms.
