Description of Partner:

Youth Media Arts brings intuitive, affective, and physical learning to the classroom by combining Academic Content Standards and each school’s curriculum objectives into a compact media arts lesson designed to excite students about the possibilities of media and education, and to leave teachers with new classroom tools. 

• Kindergarten (activities can be customized during collaborative planning)
• Elementary Schools
• Middle Schools
• High Schools

Instructional Time with Students:

An YMA instructor will work on site with four different classrooms approximately fifty minutes each, four days during one school week. For upper grades, the schedule might be as follows:

• Day 1 – visual and technical training
• Day 2 – scripting
• Day 3 – storyboarding and rehearsing
• Day 4 – shooting

Description of Plan & Components:

Students love to see themselves on television.  They love to watch video.  With Youth Media Arts training enthusiasm is harnessed to build their bond with education, enhance their familiarity with technology, heighten their aesthetic sense and encourage confidence in their own creativity.  YMA teaches art following Academic Content Standards while providing articulation for future school media arts programs. 

The schools and teachers select the topics.  Working with YMA, the students and their teachers decide on the setting and characters of their narrative scenes.