Picture Prompt
Arts-Integration Programs
RCCA is partnering with the Camden City School District to design and implement Picture Prompt, a visual arts-integrated 3rd grade curriculum with an outcome of increasing and sustaining the 1,000 students’ literacy skills. Initiative components will include a) professional development and classroom support for the 50 teachers; b) design and demonstration of integrated activities by teaching artists; c) participation by teachers and students in the museum education program, d) formation of student-directed learning centers in each classroom; and, e) benchmark and outcomes assessments.
Picture Prompt is a two-year project that uses the visual arts to build and sustain the literacy skills of third grade students. The project is a partnership between Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts and the Camden City School District’s Office for Elementary Curriculum and Instruction. The programming components of Picture Prompt include the development of an arts-based third grade curriculum, professional development for teachers, creation of interactive centers in each classroom to increase knowledge about litearcy skills through the visual arts, and a web site designed to build community and encourage participation among the teachers and to support their day-to-day work in the classroom.
