TAO associates are donating time, facilities and expertise to make the following workshops available to anyone in our community. There is a requested donation to defray basic expenses, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Hope to see you at one of these workshops! If you have an idea for a workshop you'd like to see offered, or that you would volunteer to offer to the TAO community, please let us know at tao@teachingartistsorganized.org.
Register now or send an email tao@teachingartistsorganized.org Put "Sign Up for Classes" in the subject line In the body of the email indicate which classes you want.
NEW summer lineup of courses designed to help teaching artists engage their students and accelerate their learning across the curriculum.
Summer Intensive Courses Strategies and Resources for Arts Integration - August 9 - 13, 9 am - 4 pm. This hands-on course focuses on art and art-integrated teaching, curriculum development, and assessment using educational tools including Teaching for Understanding and Studio Thinking frameworks from Harvard's Project Zero. Instructors: Julia Marshall, San Francisco State University; Tana Johnson, California College of the Arts. Fee: $295. Location to be announced. Collaborative Curriculum Design - June 28 - July 2, 9 am - 4 pm. Participants will be creating their own curriculum for classroom application and teaching, conducting ongoing assessment, and reporting on their own learning. Protocols, tools frameworks are employed as needed to focus conversation on quality practice. Instructor: Trena Noval, Teaching Artist, faculty at California College of the Arts and Mills College. Fee: $295. Location to be announced.
Ongoing Assessment Strategies and Applications - June 29 - June 30, 9 am - 4 pm. Participants learn ongoing assessment strategies, including Studio Habits of Mind, Making Learning Visible and documentation, rubrics and portfolios. They develop protocols, tools, and applications that are useful for evaluating and deepening their own learning and their students' learning. Instructor: Susan McGreevy-Nichols, Art IS Education Professional Development Program Coordinator; Loyola Marymount University. Click here to register for Summer Intensive Courses. Fee: $195. Location tba.
These courses can be taken individually or participants can qualify for an Arts Integration Specialist Certificate by successfully completing 12 units of AISP coursework.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following classes qualify as electives* in the Arts Integration Specialist Program, but are open to any teaching artist or teacher.
Tools for Teachers: Summer Intensive offering Higher Thinking Strategies and Classroom Management For Teachers and Administrators of Grades 2-8 50 Mark West Springs Rd., Santa Rosa, CA 95403 Monday - Wednesday. July 19 - July 21, 9 am-4 pm. Facilitator/teacher Sean Layne, one of the nation's top instructors in arts-integration using the Kennedy Center Framework $200 per person plus $50 materials fee; bring a friend for free! Maximum number of participants: 35 Participants must plan to attend all three days. Access registration form at http://wellsfargocenterarts.org/pdf/09wfca-prof-dev-flyer.pdf. Mail or fax to: Arts & Education Programs, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Phone 707-527-7006 · Fax 707.546.7020
Mixed Media Unleashed - Combine Painting Revisited Making It Accessible for All Students Location: See instructor for new location Date to register by: July 15th Instructor: Lynn Zamarra Fee: $100 Open to all disciplines, no experience, no prerequisites Deadline to register: postponed to fall Develop technique in a variety of media - including creating surface designs and textures, abstract painting and graphic design - in a relaxed, playful environment. A combine painting is artwork that incorporates various objects into a painted surface, in some cases, creating a sort of hybrid between painting and sculpture. Robert Rauschenberg, associated with both the Abstract Expressionist and Pop movements originated the medium and coined the term. Learn to use a variety of techniques, paint with traditional and unconventional media and "papers" to create an array of textured surfaces and designs. Demonstrations modify the process so it meets the needs of students at all grade levels. Lynn Zamarra has spent a lifetime as a mixed-media artist and committed educator/teacher/student. Lynn completed her MFA in an interdisciplinary study of Art, Graphic Design and Interactive Digital Media. Deadline to register: July 15, 2010 -- To register: email lzamarra@aim.com
Kala Art Institute Professional Development: Access Points to Printmaking for Educators & Teaching Artists Tuesday and Thursday, August 10 & 12, 10am-3pm 2990 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley Total Number of Hours 10 Facilitator/teacher Susan Wolf Open to all disciplines; no prerequisites Cost $170 Monotype, relief printing, stencil and masking techniques and more. Work on printing presses and practice simple hand burnishing techniques that will allow you to teach printmaking in any classroom. Model lessons will be presented from multiple perspectives, demonstrating the ways in which the printing process can be paired with an existing curriculum or presented independently. Emphasis placed on energizing your own artistic practice while learning new techniques that will be accessible to your students. Susan Wolf is a printmaker and mixed-media artist currently working as an artist in residence at Kala. She is a California credentialed K-12 teacher and completed Harvard's Teaching for Understanding training course. Register Online: http://kala.org/class/class.html By phone: (510) 549-2977 ext.303 or by email patrick@kala.org
Arts Integration Resources available from Museum and Community Arts Centers A week of field trips to discover quality resources for teachers and teaching artists FALL dates to be announced Various San Francisco and East Bay locations Instructor: Trena Noval, Faculty at California College of the Arts and Mills College Graduate School of Education Fee: $300 Credit: 1 unit upon completion of the course Open to all disciplines, no experience, no prerequisites Deadline to register: June 20, 2010 To register: email Trena Noval at tnoval@speakeasy.net A week of field trips visiting Bay Area art museums and education departments to learn about classroom resources they offer teachers and teaching artists. We will visit and meet with the education departments at the de Young Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Oakland Museum of California, Museum of African Diaspora, and the Children's Museum of Art (MOCHA) in Oakland. We also will explore other community resources like Berkeley Rep and Cal Shakes education opportunities. Trena Noval,Teaching Artist OUSD and ACOE Arts Integration Specialist, is a Digital Media Artist, Arts Writer and Educator who received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and an MFA in video, photography and digital media from Maryland Institute College of Art. She has taught art and digital media in various universities/colleges, and in K-12 setting for 18 years.
* Call for Workshops to be offered as electives in the Arts Integration Specialist Program for Fall 2010 Working with the Alameda County Office of Education's Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership, TAO invites fall classes and workshops that can serve as electives in ACOE's Arts Integration Specialist Certificate Program. The electives can be taken for certificate credit, or as stand-alones, no credit. If your organization has a a fall professional development or skill-building workshop that can be offered in the AISCP program, please email tao@teachingartistsorganized.org with the information and we will send you the form to fill out. DEADLINE for us to receive your completed form is JULY 1. The line-up of elective classes for Fall 2010, in multiple disciplines, will be posted late August on the TAO Website under Professional Development, and under Teaching and Learning on the Art is Education Website
American Association of Theatre Educators conference in SF August 5-8 Bring your heART to San Francisco and join us in playing on the fault lines. AATE will hold its 2010 member conference at the Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco in cooperation with the California Educational Theatre Association, CETA. Includes a preconference workshop Building Bridges: LGBTQQ Youth Theatre, storytelling and devised performance events, and many panels and presentations, including TAO advisory board member Mary Sutton, of Theatreworks, and a panel featuring TAO members "Finding Your Voice: Advocacy, Conversation and Inspiration in a Crazy World". Membership, Registration and info available at www.aate.com.
Conference for Community Arts Education, in SF Nov 3-8 2010 The Conference for Community Arts Education is a preeminent gathering of community arts education leaders, which will feature dozens of professional development workshops, roundtables and program showcases. Sessions are organized into progressive tracks to provide delegates in-depth training in best practices for addressing some of today's most critical issues in community arts education. The conference will be held in San Francisco on November 3-8, 2010 http://www.communityartsed.org/
The Screen Actors Guild hosts Storyline Online. Well-known actors like Jason Alexander and James Earl Jones read children's books while we see the illustrations and optional text, many of which have natural arts learning connections, "Pigasso meets Mootise", for example, or "To Be A Drum." Check it out!
Arts Learning Tools and Resources The California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA) Arts Initiative released the publication Arts Learning Tools and Resources: Bringing the ARTS to All Students. It provides a summary of the six arts education tools and resources developed by regional lead county offices of education that can be used to guide advocacy, arts assessment, K-6 arts integration and curriculum development, leadership, and professional development. Also featured in the publication are the Vision and Core Principles developed by the CISC Visual and Performing Arts Subcommittee. Learn more.
The first of its kind in the United States, the Arts Integration Specialist Certificate provides K-12 teachers and teaching artists in public schools the insight, understanding, and skills they require to provide engaging and effective art and arts-integrated lessons across all areas of curriculum and to advance professionally. Participants leave equipped with real classroom applications focused on achieving improved student and teacher learning across all subjects.
The Arts Integration Specialist Program offers core courses and electives, with the option to acquire continuing education units through Cal State East Bay, and work toward an Arts Integration Specialist Certificate. The Certificate program is intended for teaching artists, credentialed arts teachers, multiple subject and single subject credentialed teachers. For more info, click here.
CORE COURSES are required for the certificate. ELECTIVE COURSES to complete the certificate are available throughout the year with TAO partners. Spring 2010 Core Course Now Open for Registration www.artiseducation.org COURSE A: Strategies and Resources for Arts Integration
*This course is a requirement for Arts Integration Specialist Certificate Program Instructors: Tana Johnson and Dr. Julia Marshall (Spring 2010 only) Hours: 30 hours 3 credits
Schedule: Semester II ~ Spring 2010 Wednesdays, January 27 – March 31 (4:30 – 7:30pm) Semester III ~ Summer Intensive 2010 August 9-13 (9am – 3pm)
Semester I ~ Fall 2010 Wednesdays, September 22nd – December 1 (4:30 – 7:30pm) Semester II ~ Spring 2011 (not offered) Semester III ~ Summer Intensive 2011 August 8-12 or August 15-19 (9am – 4pm)
Price: $295 No prerequisites required.
Understanding Goals: What is outstanding arts education? What tools can I use to help me develop and deliver meaningful arts curriculum that has social relevance for my students?
This hands-on course focuses on art and art integrated teaching, curriculum development, and assessment using educational tools like Teaching for Understanding and Studio Thinking frameworks from Harvard’s Project Zero. Students develop curriculum that targets deep understanding and draws upon contemporary art practice from a diversity of perspectives and cultures. How to create visual arts and interdisciplinary arts strategies will be the focus.
Participants analyze existing curriculum and look at contemporary art practice to inspire their own curriculum development. They investigate the different ways that art helps people formulate questions, think about, synthesize, and express knowledge and learning. Participants also analyze curriculum delivery and implementation. Using observation protocols to help focus inquiry and discussion, the course examines a variety of arts learning experiences. At the end of the course, each participant has a binder of resources, as well as curricula and assessment tools created by the class that they can put into use in the classroom and share with their school or organization.
Participants understand:the breadth and depth of what art integration can be.how to develop, assess, and deliver curriculum that targets deep understanding and draws upon contemporary art practice from a diversity of perspectives and cultureshow art making can connect to the knowledge, purposes, forms, and methods of other disciplines (developing powerful and authentic arts integrated learning experiences)how to develop learning communities to share knowledge and propel learning across disciplines and grade levels
Registration: **If you have any questions regarding registration please contact Sierra Falcon at 510.670.4557, or by email at arts@acoe.org.
