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Who are LCI Teaching Artists?
Recently, as we began highlighting our full-time teaching artists in this newsletter, a reader asked us to elaborate on the question, what are teaching artists? What is their role at LCI?
LCI’s teaching artists are professionals from the disciplines of dance, music, theater, and visual arts. Teaching artists serve as representatives of Lincoln Center Institute, bringing the arts and LCI’s pedagogy into classrooms locally, nationally and internationally. They design and implement classroom activities and professional development sessions. They work closely with educators in our partnering schools, guide them in the use of Imagination Lesson Plans, and are instrumental in the Institute’s professional development initiatives. Teaching artists conduct workshops and consultancies, and assist in the development of educator resources. LCI’s teaching artists are active in their artistic fields and structure their LCI work schedule so that it allows time for their creativity.
Teaching artists undergo an intensive training consisting of an immersion in the Institute’s philosophy and practice, followed by a teaching audition. Thereafter, they pursue continuous professional development at LCI to remain at the forefront of advances in education and LCI’s own pedagogical development.
Teaching artists possess a strong commitment to working with educators and young people. Teaching artists and educators share brainstorming meetings. Together, they design and implement each instructional unit, identify aesthetic elements in the work of art chosen for study, discuss teaching concepts, construct a curriculum, design activities, determine which resources should be used to provide a context to the study of the work of art, develop strategies for reflection and assessment, and build links with other areas of school life.
Teaching artists undergo an intensive training consisting of an immersion in the Institute’s philosophy and practice, followed by a teaching audition. Thereafter, they pursue continuous professional development at LCI to remain at the forefront of advances in education and LCI’s own pedagogical development.
Teaching artists possess a strong commitment to working with educators and young people. Teaching artists and educators share brainstorming meetings. Together, they design and implement each instructional unit, identify aesthetic elements in the work of art chosen for study, discuss teaching concepts, construct a curriculum, design activities, determine which resources should be used to provide a context to the study of the work of art, develop strategies for reflection and assessment, and build links with other areas of school life.
Many LCI teaching artists have gone on to become leaders of other arts and education organizations.