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Selection Process

VSA arts Teaching Artist Fellows were selected through a competitive process that sought highly qualified candidates. Selection was based upon credentials and/or prior experience, references, and responses to the completed application.

Each application was carefully reviewed by the selection committee who determined the standards, review submitted materials, and made final selections. Applicants were asked to present evidence that best exemplified the extent and quality of their accomplishments.

Fellows were assessed based upon the following factors:

1. Desire to advance teaching, artistic, and professional experience
   
2. Artistic accomplishment as evidenced by formal training and/or years of experience in arts discipline or traditional arts practice
   
   • Demonstrate professional practice: performs, exhibits, publishes, maintains an established body of work
     
   • Transform passion for own art form and motivate participants to push their own aesthetic experience
     
   • Provide authentic model for power of artistic thinking, creating, perceiving, reflecting, and attending
     
3. Teaching accomplishment as evidenced by engaging a roomful of students who have different abilities across gender, age, race, and cultural boundaries
   
   • Create successful lessons that are developmentally appropriate
     
   • Integrate the Multiple Intelligence Theory into teaching practice
     
   • Link current state curriculum standards with teaching practice
     
4. Professional accomplishment as demonstrated by presentation skills: using voice and body language to captivate audience.
   
   • Be able to write workshop descriptions
     
   • Plan and promote own work as a teaching artist

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