Creative Connection - Youth Development

THE CREATIVE CONNECTION:
Arts and
Youth Development

With
Harlan Brownlee
www.ArtsInEducation.net

OVERVIEW
Developmental Opportunities
Developmental Supports
Elements of Youth Participation
Art Experience
Deconstruct the Art Experience
Applications to Youth Development

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YOUTH DEVELOPMENT DEFINITIONS
 Services
 Provision of referrals, resources or goods
to young people to address their needs for
adequate nutrition, health and shelter.
 Services are a necessary precondition for
youth to benefit from supports and
opportunities.
 Services are done to or for the young
person.


Opportunities
 Activities,roles and responsibilities
taken on and done by young people.
 Chances that they have to explore,
express, earn, belong, and influence.
 Opportunities are done by the
young person.



Supports
 Supports are things done with the
young person

 Interpersonal relationships
addressed by expectations, guidance
and boundaries that allow a young
person to take full advantage of
existing services and opportunities.


OPPORTUNITIES
The chance to actively learn and
build skills and to critically test,
explore and discuss ideas and
choices.
The chance to express oneself
through different mediums and
settings and to engage in both
learning and play.

OPPORTUNITIES

 The chance to be an integral group
member (such as in a family, school
and/or youth organization) by fully taking
on the responsibilities of membership.
 The chance to have positive influences
on others through active participation in
formal or informal community and family
based activities.


SUPPORTS
 To receive love, friendship and affirmation
from others and to be involved in caring
relationships.
 To receive high expectations from others,
including the opportunities, encouragement
and rewards necessary to meet those high
expectations.
 To receive clear messages regarding rules,
norms and discipline and to be involved in
discussing and modifying the boundaries as
appropriate.


SUPPORTS
 To receive assistance in assessing one’s
options and to be involved in relationships
characterized by coaching, feedback and
discussion.

 To receive assistance in gaining access
to current and future resources through
involvement and connections to people,
information and systems.


ARTS (DANCE/DRAMA) ACTIVITIES
 Name Game
 Mirroring – Demonstrate with a partner
 Lead & Follow – giving direction balancing with
openness to student input and changes
 Hand Sculptures
 Any shape
 Specific motifs

 Body Twister
 Same body parts
 Cross body connections

 Tableaux
 Form follows Function & vice-versa


DECONSTRUCT THE ART EXPERIENCE
Discovery, Exploration, Practice, &
Reflection
Thought, Expression & Creativity
Options, Assessment & Planning
Standards & Boundaries
Based on each Individuals
Strengths
Freedom & Choice

Youth Development Principles Arts Experiences - National Arts
Content Standards grades 9 - 12
Developmental
Opportunities – Done by Arts Disciplines
the Young Person
 Dance - identifying and
Discovery, Exploration, demonstrating movement elements
and skills in the performing arts
Practice & Reflection
 Chance to learn and build  Music - performing on
skills instruments, alone and with others,
a varied repertoire of music
 Chance to test skills –to
succeed or fail  Visual Art - understanding and
applying media, techniques, and
 Chance to discuss ideas and processes
choices


Arts Experiences - National Arts
Youth Development Principles

Developmental Arts Disciplines
Opportunities – Done by
the Young Person  Theatre – Script writing through
improvising, writing, and refining
scripts based on personal experience
Thought, Expression & and heritage, imagination, literature
Creativity and history

 Chance to articulate a  Music - improvising melodies,
perception, opinion, or story variations, and accompaniments

Chance to work in different  Visual Art - create multiple
expressive mediums solutions to specific visual arts
problems


Developmental Supports – Arts Disciplines
Done with the Young
Person  Dance - establish a set of
aesthetic criteria and apply it in
Options, Assessment & evaluating their own work and that
Planning of others
 Receive assistance in
assessing one’s options  Music – Listening to, analyzing,
and describing music
 Involved in relationships
characterized by coaching,  Visual Art –reflecting upon and
feedback, discussion, and assessing the characteristics and
merits of their work and the work of
reflection
others


Arts Experiences - National Arts
Youth Development Principles

Standards & Boundaries Arts Disciplines

 Clear messages regarding  Dance – understanding choreographic
expectations, rules, discipline, and principles, processes, and structures
boundaries
 Music – composing and arranging
music within specified guidelines
 Power to change rules and
boundaries as appropriate  Visual Art – using knowledge of
structure and functions



Critical to Youth Arts Disciplines
Participation  Dance – demonstrate
understanding of how personal
 Based on individuals experience influences the
interpretation of a dance
strengths - Youth must be
involved in their own  Theatre – Acting by developing,
development communicating, and sustaining
characters in improvisation and
 Freedom & choice informal or formal productions

 Visual Art – choosing and
evaluating a range of subject matter,
symbols, and ideas


RESOURCES
 Administration for Children and Families
(Recent Research on Positive Development)
 http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/
 National Youth Development Information Center
 http://www.nydic.org/nydic/
 The Community Network for Youth
Development (Michele Gambone)
 http://www.cnyd.org/


RESOURCES
 Americans for the Arts (Best Practices)
 http://www.artsusa.org/youtharts/bestpractice
s.asp
 Art Home
 http://www.arthome.org/YouthDev.html
 Connect for Kids - Arts and Youth
Development
 http://www.connectforkids.org/


REFLECTION
 Self –Directed Reflection
 Working with the matrices handed out; determine how the
art activities you teach can be adjusted to incorporate
principles of good youth development
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND ART CONTENT STANDARDS
PLANNING GUIDE

Opportunities Supports Art Content Standards Assessment

Arts Activities

Arts Activities

Arts Activities


Youth Development Principles Arts Experiences - National Arts Content Standards grades 9 - 12

Developmental Opportunities – Done by the Young Person Disciplines
Discovery, Exploration, Practice & Reflection Dance - identifying and demonstrating movement elements and skills in the
Chance to learn and build skills performing arts
Chance to test skills –to succeed or fail Music - performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of
Chance to discuss ideas and choices music
Visual Art - understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes

Thought, Expression & Creativity Theatre – Script writing through improvising, writing, and refining scripts based
Chance to articulate a perception – opinion – story on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature and history
Chance to work in different expressive mediums Music - improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments
Visual Art - create multiple solutions to specific visual arts problems

Developmental Supports – Done with the Young Person Disciplines
Options, Assessment & Planning Dance - establish a set of aesthetic criteria and apply it in evaluating their own
Receive assistance in assessing one’s options work and that of others
Involved in relationships characterized by coaching, feedback and Music – Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
discussion - reflection
Visual Art –reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their
work and the work of others

Standards & Boundaries Disciplines
Clear messages regarding expectations – rules – discipline - Dance – understanding choreographic principles, processes, and structures
boundaries
Power to change rules and boundaries as appropriate Music – composing and arranging music within specified guidelines
Visual Art – using knowledge of structure and functions

Critical to Youth Participation Disciplines
Based on individuals strengths Dance – demonstrate understanding of how personal experience influences
Youth must be involved in their own development the interpretation of a dance
Freedom & choice Theatre – Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in
improvisation and informal or formal productions
Visual Art – choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and
ideas


REFLECTION
 Small Group Discussions
 Three things you learned today?
 Two things that you will change in your
teaching?
 One thing you still have questions about?
 Group Discussion
 Is creating art a youth development
opportunity? In what way?
 What was the single most important idea or
application you made today to your work in
youth development and the arts?


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