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Directions to
Summer Session 2008
Open to
K-12 teachers of all disciplines, guest administrators,
parent arts liaisons and coordinators - three days of
exciting and invigorating professional development.
Whether you are a returning teacher or new to aesthetic
education, you will leave Summer Session brimming with
ideas that will:
- Enrich your
educational practice
- Spark your personal
creativity
- Inspire you as you
infuse arts into the classroom
At Summer Session you
will:
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Enjoy Gregory
Maguire’s teacher talk “Flying With Words” for
Summer Session participants only.
- Attend live
performances and selected visual art exhibits that
are the focus of study for Summer Session workshops
and potential school year programming.
- Work closely with
The Center for Arts in Education team of
professional teaching artists in experiential art
making workshops that are designed to illuminate
works of art under study and build creative,
perceptual and problem solving skills.
- Develop new teaching
strategies that integrate inquiry, art-making, and
reflective practice into the classroom.
 Enjoy Summer Session as a
stand alone professional development opportunity
(in-service credit available) or as part of a
comprehensive arts in education program
during the 2008-2009 academic year.
Graduate credit available through UAlbany.
Participant price: $135 (one, two or all three days)
includes morning coffee and lunch. |
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Workshops:
Learning the Essentials of
Aesthetic Education
As practiced by N.Y.C.’s Lincoln Center Institute
Three days: July 1, 2, 3, 2008
For first time Summer Session attendees
This is a Foundations option of
Professional Development Pathways.
How can I
reach students with different learning styles? What lessons and
strategies will work for my students of varied competency
levels? How can the arts help me develop student literacy skills
and meet the NYS Learning Standards? At Essentials, immerse
yourself in experiential workshop activities with our teaching
artists, view all five live performances, and see how
investigation of a work of art can help you develop new
instructional practices.
Essentials participants will see all performances. On Day 3
join your “Returning” colleagues! Essentials participants
follow a set schedule. No need to select workshops!
Intensives for Returning Teachers -
Highlights
Half day and full day workshops
How do
the aesthetic elements in a particular arts discipline help you
enter into further exploration of an artwork? Immerse yourself
in active inquiry, attend a performance, and reflect on your
experience. Discover some of the aesthetic elements that make a
particular artwork come alive. Imagine how this approach can
enhance your teaching possibilities.
Day 1,
Tuesday, July 1
Music: Have fun with strategic integration of contextual
information in your study of unknown Neapolitan music! Learn
how research can enhance your multi-cultural classroom unit.
Performance: Unknown Music of the
Neapolitan
School
- AM
Visual Arts and Poetry: How can deep noticing of nature
spark imagination? How can we interpret and respond through
visual media and creative language? Experience the parallels of
art and science processes.
Exhibit: Art-Science Fusion: Scale – PM
Day 2,
Wednesday, July 2
Theater: What is the relationship between the aesthetic
experience and the development of arts skills? How might the
imaginative study of Post Comedy Theater lead to enriched
connections across curriculum? Explore these questions!
Performance: Post Comedy Theater - AM
Music: How does a musician hear sounds? What resources
can he use to make music? How does technology enhance his
professional options? Focus on the role of questioning to
deepen your aesthetic education practice.
Performance: Music in the Making – PM
Day 3,
Thursday, July 3
Literature: What happens when we focus on literature as
a gateway to imaginative learning? How can we find meaningful
entry points to engage students with reading? What can a
novelist share to help us answer these questions?
Work of Art: What-the-Dickens – Gregory Maguire’s novel for
young readers - AM
Dance: How can work with the body unlock learning? How
does development of a Line of Inquiry provide a framework for a
unit that is focused and lays fertile ground for
unexpected positive outcomes? Essentials participants join
returning teachers for this practice-changing workshop.
Performance: Modern Dance and … - AM (via DVD at Summer
Session. Live at your school)
Theater:
go inside out to investigate embedded reflection / assessment in
your aesthetic education classroom work. Essentials
participants join Returning Teachers for these workshops.
Elementary School Teachers:
Journey into theater through storytelling, memory and reflective
writing.
Performance: Letters From a Window on the Sky (via DVD at
Summer Session. Live at your school) – PM
Middle and High School Teachers: Explore ways to
identify and communicate important components of story and
character through theater.
Performance: Sophocles’ Antigone - PM
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