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In Professional Development Workshops, educators become students. We begin with an art-making activity designed to model best practices. The goal is develop teachers’ content-knowledge and teaching strategies by participating in, and then debriefing, model lessons. The “how” “what” and “why” of the approach is then explored through discussion questions, worksheets, role-play, and viewing photographs of children’s artwork and studio set-ups.
Studio Art Teaching Workshops cover:
- how to focus on what children are learning rather than what they are making
- how to maximize the time students are engaging directly with materials
- how to streamline lesson planning
- how to approach painting, drawing, clay, collage, construction and print-making (including history, set-up, techniques, motivations)
- how to talk to children about their artwork
- how to teach content (skills, techniques, elements of art, vocabulary, art history) in response to what children are doing
- how to teach drawing from observation to children
- how to invite children to make personal art work about their lives, and the wider world (including topics in social justice and social studies-related curriculum)
- how to teach a diverse array of museum artists without doing derivative projects
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