{"id":69858,"date":"2025-08-08T08:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=69858"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:12:13","slug":"educators-incorporate-arts-into-classrooms-at-utc-summer-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/educators-incorporate-arts-into-classrooms-at-utc-summer-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Educators incorporate arts into classrooms at UTC summer camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_69994\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"69994\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/educators-incorporate-arts-into-classrooms-at-utc-summer-camp\/dsc02651\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02651.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1753196725&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC02651\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02651-1024x819.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-69994 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02651.jpg\" alt=\"Educators at the Arts Integration Summer Camp perform their song on ukuleles after writing it in one day. Photo courtesy of UTC Arts-Based Collaborative.\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02651.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02651-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02651-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02651-800x640.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02651-580x464.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02651-610x488.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators at the Arts Integration Summer Camp perform their song on ukuleles after writing it in one day. Photo courtesy of UTC Arts-Based Collaborative.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Arts Integration Summer Camp returned to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga\u2019s Guerry Center July 22-24, drawing 67 educators eager to blend the arts with their teaching.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the camp is to incorporate the arts into other subject areas, providing students with multiple ways to learn.<\/p>\n<p>This summer was the third time the event was held at UTC. Angela Dittmar, director of teaching artist residencies at the UTC Arts-Based Collaborative (ABC), organized the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArts integration as a foundation is the idea that there\u2019s an intrinsic way that the arts bring in a lot of different subject areas, thoughts, interests and concepts,\u201d Dittmar said. \u201cWe can provide an immersive, holistic learning experience when we teach a concept and invite arts, math or literacy all together in the same learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dittmar is also a member of Partners in Education (PIE)\u2014an organization that collaborated with ABC to provide the three-day learning experience for attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Workshops were held where professionals could teach about art integration. Participants were encouraged to take art concepts like music or drama and apply them to their classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Robyn Stringfellow is manager of educational content and services at WTCI. Before her work at WTCI, she was a teacher for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy role is helping educators who are not arts teachers\u2014who teach science, math, social studies or English\u2014and figuring out how to use the arts in their classroom to accomplish their learning goals,\u201d Stringfellow explained. \u201cAlso, to keep them on track for standardized testing and making sure that their students can improve and show growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first day, attendees worked with Tennessee musician Kelle Jolly, who taught ukulele and songwriting to teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal today is to give teachers a music learning experience that they can integrate into their classroom teaching,\u201d Jolly said. \u201cEvents like this are part of the lifelong learning of a teacher or the lifelong learning of a human. We don\u2019t stop learning just because we graduate from a program. We can continue to learn. We continue to look for opportunities to grow and to understand the world better and communicate with each other better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jolly said one of the participants even bought a ukulele thanks to the workshop\u2014already seeing the impact it can have on their curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that they take it to the classroom,\u201d Jolly said. \u201cWe can express ourselves through music and you don\u2019t have to be a professional to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69997\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" data-attachment-id=\"69997\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/educators-incorporate-arts-into-classrooms-at-utc-summer-camp\/dsc02537\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02537.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1753194456&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC02537\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02537-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-69997 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02537.jpg\" alt=\"Educators hard at work composing a Blues song with the ukulele. Photo courtesy of Arts-Based Collaborative.\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02537.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02537-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02537-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02537-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02537-580x387.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02537-610x407.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC02537-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators hard at work composing a blues song with the ukulele. Photo courtesy of UTC Arts-Based Collaborative.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over the last two days of the conference, participants heard from other arts professionals. Ms. Tangles and Rachel Graber are both ABC teaching artists. Ric Morris, a theater teacher from The Howard School, taught a drama workshop. Melissa Astin from ArtsBuild showed how to incorporate visual arts into the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Stringfellow hopes this camp offers a chance for educators to find a community with like-minded people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want them to make new friends,\u201d Stringfellow explained. \u201cI want them to feel supported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome teachers who aren\u2019t arts teachers come in with this idea of, \u2018I\u2019m not an artist. I\u2019m just a math teacher. I\u2019m just a science teacher.\u2019 We\u2019re all artists. Everyone\u2019s an artist. I hope that they kind of awaken their own sense of artistry within them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ABC will host three smaller events throughout the school year at various locations around the Chattanooga area, hoping to continue the integration of the arts in classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Building on three successful summers, Dittmar and her ABC team hope to deepen the program\u2019s impact in future camps, fostering creativity and collaboration among educators in Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>The event was funded by a Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC) teacher training grant.<\/p>\n<p>Dittmar said TAC and other key sponsors\u2014such as ArtsBuild, WTCI, Hamilton County Schools and the Chattanooga Theatre Center\u2014help ABC host events like this on the UTC campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited to take what we learned this year,\u201d she said, \u201cand I hope my colleagues are feeling the same way after our third year doing the PIE arts integration summer camp. We\u2019ve discovered a lot of things over the last three years and they came together this year in ways that excite me. I hope we can dive a little deeper into those through our reflections and start planning for next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Learn more<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/enrollment-management-and-student-affairs\/admissions\/visit\">Visit UTC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/health-education-and-professional-studies\/arts-based-collaborative\">Arts-Based Collaborative<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/apply\">How to apply<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arts Integration Summer Camp returned to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga\u2019s Guerry Center July 22-24, drawing 67 educators eager to blend the arts with their teaching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/educators-incorporate-arts-into-classrooms-at-utc-summer-camp\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1493,"featured_media":69994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,70,14,15,61,56,122493,7712,64,8288,12776],"tags":[99186,125827,99184,119529,124428,125601,123827,123826,7276,125829,123828,125833,124776,125830,123829,125600,125832,125828,953,125599],"class_list":{"0":"post-69858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"category-art","9":"category-campus","10":"category-college-of-arts-sciences","11":"category-college-of-health-education-and-professional-studies","12":"category-community","13":"category-education","14":"category-faculty-and-staff","15":"category-news","16":"category-school-of-education","17":"category-theatre-speech","18":"tag-angela-dittmar","19":"tag-arts-integration-summer-camp","20":"tag-arts-based-collaborative","21":"tag-artsbuild","22":"tag-carter-graham","23":"tag-chattanooga-theatre-center","24":"tag-creating-the-mocs-experience","25":"tag-cultivating-a-culture-of-innovation","26":"tag-hamilton-county-schools","27":"tag-kelle-jolly","28":"tag-leveraging-our-special-place-as-chattanoogas-university","29":"tag-melissa-astin","30":"tag-mocs-learn-mocs-do-mocs-lead","31":"tag-ms-tangles","32":"tag-operating-with-excellence","33":"tag-partners-in-education","34":"tag-ric-morris","35":"tag-robyn-stringfellow","36":"tag-tennessee-arts-commission","37":"tag-wtci-pbs-2","38":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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