Arts teachers take on a variety of roles, and use many different instr uctional techniques, as they engage with their students. Teachers can be instructors, mentors, directors, coaches, artists, performers, coll aborators, facilitators, critics, or audience members. In this session , participants follow a vocal music teacher as she takes on different roles in order to encourage students to find creative solutions to art istic challenges. Next, an acting teacher becomes a facilitator as his students report on research about theatre history. Then a visual art teacher guides her students in a drawing assignment, varying her appro ach based on the students