Electrifying the Classroom
Summer Teacher Institute at the Rock Hall
Do you want to electrify your K-12 classroom with the energy of popular music, its rich artistic resources, and its academic possibilities?
Spend a week in residence at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum! Electrifying the Classroom is the Summer Teacher Institute at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. The institute brings K-12 teachers together with arts education specialists, historians, community educators, curriculum designers, and performers to learn how to use popular music effectively to teach across the K-12 curriculum. Discover how to integrate an art form that speaks to students, sparking new levels of learning that meet state and national standards. Walk through activities that deepen your students’ engagement with popular music--whether the focus is language arts, history and the social studies, music, technology or other subject areas. Leave with knowledge of popular music history and classroom tested resources to bring your classroom alive with a cultural form drawn from many communities that resonates across generations and around the world.
The Summer Teacher Institute immerses participants in a week of multimedia presentations, hands-on workshops, and lectures featuring methods of experienced educators. The award-winning education staff of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum features resources, activities, and methods developed in the museum’s K-12 programs. Classroom teachers, arts educators, historians, and community educators converge to share their best practices.
2008 Summer Teacher Institute
June 23 - 27, 2008 – Cleveland, Ohio
Download the 2008 Summer Teacher Institute schedule.
Download the 2008 Summer Teacher Institute brochure.
Features:
GO BEHIND THE SCENES into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Connect the artistry, people, messages, and business of popular music to learning across the k-12 disciplines.
- 2008 Keynote Speaker: Historian David Brackett, McGill University (The Pop, Rock and Soul Reader, 2006)
- Explorations of Museum exhibits and behind-the-scenes highlights with Rock Hall curators
- Spotlights on the development of educational materials at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
- Introductions to the museum’s on-site programs, e-resources, and distance learning classes for K-12 students
- Participant booklet of all materials required for the week (sample lessons and activities, museum learning guides, and the Museum educators’ recommended readings, websites, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee recordings.)
LEARN FROM AWARD-WINNING EDUCATORS, AUTHORS, HISTORIANS, AND ARTISTS
- 2008 Featured Artist: Photographer Mike McCartney on his special exhibit, Liverpool Life, opening June 2008
Click here for more information about the Mike McCartney exhibit. - Overviews of the dynamic history of rock and roll by decades, from the roots to its many branches
- Breakout sessions where K-12 educators with long-term experience demonstrate successful lessons and guide participants in tailoring resources for activities in their own classrooms across the disciplines
- Case studies describing goals, methods, and outcomes of successful programs for students in both traditional and non-traditional instructional settings
- Evening events such as the opening reception, Wednesday evening program, or other opportunities to extend conversation about popular music and network with colleagues.
More information on the 2008 presenters and schedule will be posted. The Institute schedule is subject to change. Feel free to review schedules of past programs below and learn more about the teaching staff.
Past Summer Teacher Institutes
2007 Schedule
2006 Schedule
2005 Schedule
For More Information
Send your contact information to the Education Department at or call 216.515.1510. More details will be posted soon.
The 2008 and 2007 programs were made possible, in part, by the Ohio Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Doc Pomus' Little Saxophone
Photo by Design Photography
Collection of the Family of Doc Pomus
