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NBJ CAMP
Community Arts Media Partnerships
Summer 2006
Teaching & Learning Framework

Goals
-to provide a combination of teaching & learning, skills building and organization. Main conduits are arts and media (several disciplines – writing, visual arts, performance, media publishing, critical media literacy) in an attempt to see the curriculum in a new way as they lead to learning in your subject areas. The goal is long-term, to inspire us and the students to gain skills
-to engage students with various subjects/careers by connecting learning to personal experience via art, storytelling and the web; to use the stories of youth to motivate them to be come self-directted learners; to foster an ongoing process of individual and collective reflection within the Nancy B Jefferson community.

Daily Schedule

ASSEMBLY (goals, blocks, roles)
PODS (skills, production)
LUNCH
SYMPOSIUM (career, curriculum)
REPORTING|PERFORMANCE (installation, showcase, competition, games)



Activities

1. Journaling/Blogging

2. Roundtable Discussion

3. Improvisation/Games

4. Multimedia Production

5. Community Reporting


CAMP Activities foster valuable lifelong skills such as:

-- literacy in technology, storytelling, poetry, concept mapping and storyboarding

-- literacy in various expressive forms such as journalism, graphics design, and multimedia

-- skills in public speaking and performance

-- skills such as deconstructing and critiquing media messages, song lyrics

-- habits of mind such as focus, decision-making, interpreting