A Teaching Artist's Companion: How to Define and Develop Your Practice - Softcover

Levy, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190926163 ISBN 13: 9780190926168

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2019

Synopsis

You are an artist, living the artist's life. But you also want to make a difference in the world as a teaching artist. You know how to pursue excellence in your art form; how can you pursue excellence in teaching artistry?

A Teaching Artist's Companion: How to Define and Develop Your Practice is a how-to reference for veteran and beginning teaching artists alike. Artist-educator Daniel Levy has been working in classrooms, homeless shelters and correctional facilities for over thirty years. With humor and hard-won insight, Levy and a variety of contributing teaching artists narrate their successes and failures while focusing on the practical mechanics of working within conditions of limited time and resources. Levy organizes teaching artist practice within a framework of View, Design, and Respond. View is everything you value and believe about teaching and learning; Design is what you plan before you go into a classroom; Respond is how you react to and support your students face to face. With the aid of checklists, worksheets, and primary sources, A Teaching Artist's Companion invites you to define your own unique view, and guides your observing, critiquing, and shaping your practice over time.

About this title

About the Author

Daniel Levy is a composer and working musician in New York City. A leader in urban teaching artistry and arts program design, he has worked with numerous arts-in-education institutions, including the 92nd Street Y, The Little Orchestra Society, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and Lincoln Center Education.

From the Back Cover

Daniel Levy has taken his deep experience as a professional teaching artist and poured it into the exemplary resource for both artists who want to find their footing in education and master teaching artists who want to re-examine their teaching practice in fresh ways. It's thrilling that a book of this caliber will help advance professionalism in the field of teaching artistry! - Courtney J. Boddie, Director of Education at the New Victory Theater and host of Teaching Artistry, a podcast


Daniel Levy is just the companion a teaching artist would want for a career-long journey of inquiry and improvement. His guidance is excellent, and this book takes our field up a notch toward better understanding and better practice. In the small library of books that advance the field, this book becomes an essential contribution. - Eric Booth, author of The Music Teaching Artist's Bible

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190926163
• ISBN 13: 9780190926168
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344