Model Theatre Program: Buckner Magnet Elementary Teaching the Arts; Performing School
School Site: http://buckner.usd259.org/PerformingArts.html
- Mission Statement: “To insure each child's educational needs will be met through the use of grade level standards and interventions that include integration and exploration of dance, drama, visual arts and music.”
- Believe in students’ multiple intelligences and activating and strengthening them
“Buckner Performing Arts School is a student-centered program that combines traditional academics with performance education.” - Believe in educating the whole child
- Looping: 1st and 4th grade teachers continue on with their classes into 2nd and 5th grade. 2nd and 5th teachers go back to 1st and 4th to pick up their next class
Their arguments are that arts:
- Are primary tools of human perception.
- Prepare our children to survive in a changing world
- Enables children to be problem solvers
- Fosters creativity rather than bureaucracy
- Uses senses and thoughts to arrive at new concepts and fresh understanding
Their program uses the same adopted textbooks, required tests and district standards as all other schools in their district.
In addition to their dance, visual arts and music, their drama component consists of:
- Weekly meetings
- Many opportunities to perceive, imagine, communicate, and respond to sensory stimuli by using their mind, feelings, body and voice
- Movement, pantomime, improvisation, character analysis, dramatizations, role play, puppetry, play-making and play writing
- Time spent on story elements such as plot, character, setting, theme, conflict, and resolution
- One session a week doing Reader’s Theatre as part of their Reading Enrichment
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