Professional Development for Teachers & Teaching Artists
Helping teachers use art in the classroom.
Throughout the year ASU Gammage and our Partners in Education, Peoria Unified School District and Mesa Public Schools, will provide Professional Development workshop opportunities for teachers. Professional Development workshops are led by Kennedy Center teaching artists from across the country. These teaching artists are noted for their extensive knowledge of their art form, their experience teaching the art form to students and teachers as well as the art form’s connections to the curriculum.
Goals of Professional Development Workshops:
- Improve and increase teachers' knowledge of the arts and culture;
- have a positive and lasting impact on classroom instruction;
- provide new strategies for teachers to meet the challenges of student engagement;
- develop new ways to work with students with diverse learning styles;
- promote collaborative learning within schools.
2011-2012 Professional Development Workshops:
SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT IN MOTION
Monday, January 30, 4-7 p.m.
Workshop Leader: Randy Barron
Location: Mesa Public Schools Creative Arts Center
155 N. Center St., Mesa, AZ
For Teachers of Grades 3-12
Cost: $20
Teachers can translate many basic concepts in science into meaningful, self-assessing movement activities that put abstract ideas into tangible, visible form. In lessons that engage students in movement, participants learn the elements of dance and how those elements relate to scientific content. Participants leave the workshop with a set of immediately useful movement activities for classroom study of the water cycle and the systems of the human body, along with the skills necessary to adapt those activities to teach other curriculum ideas. Randy Barron guides teachers in easy-to-duplicate lesson plans, which draw upon students’ kinesthetic, visual and musical intelligence to increase their achievement in science and strengthen their repertoire of learning and social skills.
