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Teaching for Transfer Across the Arts Project (TTAAP)
A Thinking through Transfer Picture of Practice
Topics: Music, Art, Poetry
Grades: 4 & 5
Teaching for Transfer Across the Arts Project (TTAAP)

Overview

The Teaching for Transfer Across the Arts Project (TTAAP) began in 1996 as a project-based initiative for infusing thinking into the arts at the upper-elementary level curriculum at Rochester Memorial School. Its objective is to deepen students' understanding across three disciplines -- music, language arts, and the visual arts. The guiding principle of the project is that achieving understanding to a large extent involves a process of connecting and applying knowledge and skills across numerous disciplines over time. The initial charge of the project was to infuse a pedagogy of transfer to connect art, music, and language arts.

The TTAAP initiative is in its third year at Rochester Memorial, and has evolved into a school-based, action research project with the support of the Spencer Foundation. During the 1998-99 school year, the project has broadened its focus to include an investigation into how educators become “teacher-researchers” in practical school settings.

What is Transfer Anyway?
Teaching for transfer is an approach to teaching that helps students apply what they learn in their regular subjects to lots of different situations and contexts, both inside and outside of school. The more connections students can make around a subject, a topic, or an idea, the more secure their understanding and learning will be.
More About the Project Practical Matters Project Samplers
 • The History
 • The Timeline
 • The Research
 • The Findings
 		 • The Teachers
    - An Interview
 • Getting Started
 • The Challenges
 • Action Guide
 • Success Stories
 		 • Student Anthology Project Sampler
 • Teacher Research Sampler
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© Rochester Memorial Elementary School. Old Rochester Regional School Department. Rochester, MA 1999.
 
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