About Our Students

 

What kind of student does the MAIAI program attract? 

Teachers of all grades and content areas who wish to be leaders in arts integration and innovators in arts infusion.

• You are a teacher who wishes to expand your knowledge and deepen your current practice by learning how to apply arts integration.
• You recognize the potential for enriched, differentiated learning and wish to become skilled at adapting curriculum to the needs of your students.
• You appreciate the ways in which arts integration enhances student enjoyment and engagement with learning, which in turn, enhances teacher job satisfaction.
• You want to become more adept at collaborating across academic areas and artistic disciplines with your fellow teachers and teaching artists to create dynamic classrooms.
• You aspire to become an informed teacher leader and/or administrator who advocates for arts integration and infusion.
• You are excited and curious to learn about arts infusion, which is to say, arts practices in sectors outside of the school setting, to fuel your teaching with new ideas and/or expand your career horizons.

Innovators, leaders and self-starters with an arts and/or education background and an entrepreneurial spirit.

• You see the potential for arts infusion in a range of settings in and beyond schools and you want to learn how to bring those skills to bear.
• You desire dedicated time and space to study and apply new knowledge in a dynamic learning environment focused on the intersecting practices of arts and education.
• You are invested in carving your own path and putting your creative problem-solving skills to work in new ways in the ever-expanding field of arts infusion.
• You are excited about learning in an interdisciplinary setting with similarly invested peers and faculty who have a wide range of educational and artistic backgrounds.