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Another great example of ARTS INTEGRATED EDUCATION is what is called Simile Theater Exploration. It has been demonstrated in the Human Body School and Math-a-magic performing arts programs with profound, eye-opening, inspiring results. It’s also really enjoyable. After all the word simile anagrams to I smile!

The way it works is simple.  It goes [...]

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What is the premise of education? That is a good place to start. Or even better still, what is the premise of being human? Woah! Hold on! That might be going too far for the purpose of these writings - which is to give encouragement to parents and teachers to be inspired educators in [...]

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Talking Hands Talking Feet is working for a time when Arts Integrated Education becomes the standard rather than the rare exception. The crisis of education in our time coincides with a greater crisis: Simply stated, the industrial/technological era paradigm has become obsolete and irrelevant in the face of the greater needs of the 21st [...]

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How do you “teach” social justice and responsibility to children? What are the roots of prejudice, racism and bigotry? At what age is it appropriate to introduce some of the more volatile social issues? What premise or criterion do you come from?
These are charged questions. Responses to these and related questions vary from culture [...]

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Ninety five per cent of the fertilized human egg is water!
Seventy per cent of the adult human body is water!
Seventy per cent of the earth’s surface is water!
In light of these watery facts, the word ‘physical’ has a different connotation. That is, we are more fluid than solid, right? Human physiology is a fluid [...]

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The first most important teaching tool you have is you!
The second most important teaching tool you have is the physical, emotional and mental environment you create in your classroom. This is a powerful, often unconscious educator that can help or detract from your mission as a teacher.
For example, beginning with the physical environment, have [...]

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Here’s a wise old Taoist folktale for your toolkit.
In an ancient Chinese village there lived a very old sage. He was so old in fact, that no one in the village could remember him being born. He was but a simple farmer whose only belongings were his horse, a hut and a small plot of [...]

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Sometimes the simplest notions are the most profound and far-reaching. Here’s one - If you value something and want to keep it, you must first give it away!   Or - if you want to learn something, teach it! Well, here’s our way of saying it: Express It to Get It!
This is such a big [...]

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What educates a child most? As a parent or a teacher, wouldn’t it be nice to know what children learn by most?
Of course there is no magic formula. We know there are at least seven major learning modalities. But the truth is every single child is unique. And therein lives the dilemma. How do [...]

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The 21st Century is a whole new chapter in the human story. Our time now truly constitutes an extraordinary opportunity to help pioneer new pathways in education. The origin of the word ‘crisis’ is ‘change’. Educators in every part of the globe stand at this remarkable threshold knowing there will be a group of [...]

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