Develop Curriculum for Arts Instruction

While each YouthARTS site uses a different approach to develop its curricula, all three sites share a common goal of producing age-appropriate curricula that involve dynamic teaching tactics.

For example, the Urban smARTS training program emphasizes the importance of using warm-up exercises to get the kids communicating with the artists and with one another and to get them excited about the arts instruction. And the training program practices what it teaches. Each training day starts with a warm up—maybe a word and movement activity or line dancing to Tex-Mex music. These warm—ups are suitable for use in the classroom with the youth.

More Resources

• Curriculum forms
• See pages 108-111 of the full chapter PDF for curriculum examples from the project sites
• Youth Arts Public Art video curriculum