Teaching Artist Training Offered

Arts Focus: Critical Skills for Today's Teaching Artists

What We'll Do

For the first time, Arts Impact is offering training for the teaching artist. Three-day workshops will be held in conjunction with the nationally recognized Arts Impact Teacher Training Summer Institute in Seattle. The workshops are designed specifically for professional teaching artists in dance, theater or visual art to increase their capacity to help teachers integrate the arts into the classroom curriculum regularly, and effectively and to develop skills and techniques to add to the teaching artist repertoire.

Why This is Critical

The mandated accountability for reporting student learning in the arts that occurs in 2008-09 heightens the awareness of the immediate need for professional development in the arts at the elementary level where the fewest arts specialists exist. For teachers to successfully prepare their students to meet state standards, comprehensive professional development in concept-based arts instruction and performance-based assessments is imperative. Arts Impact has delivered such training since 1999 with a growing reputation for quality and positive impact on student achievement.

What You'll Learn

Teaching teachers: Observe first-hand instruction by Arts Impact Artist-Mentors as they teach visual and performing arts lessons to participating teachers in the Arts Impact Summer Institute.

Standards-based instruction: Develop key skills and strategies to support the elementary classroom teacher in preparing students to meet state standards in the arts.

Concept-based instruction: Help teachers develop skills in foundational arts concepts and skills contained in the state standards.

Arts-Infused Curriculum: Learn to identify and teach validly shared concepts between an art form and other core curricular subjects.

Teacher mentoring/coaching techniques: Learn effective techniques from seasoned artist mentors on developing confidence and competence in arts teaching practices.

Assessing the Arts: Learn classroom based performance assessment strategies: checklists, rubrics, peer reflection, self-reflection, portfolio.

Documenting the Teaching Process: Learn lesson writing techniques that deepen arts understandings and focus the teaching process.

Workshop Schedule

Date and Location

Tuesday, Aug. 8 – Thursday, Aug. 10
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Seattle Asian Art Museum; Volunteer Park; Seattle, WA

Registration Information

Register for the workshop using the Arts Focus registration form (PDF). Contact Sibyl Barnum (253) 926-6815 x5008 if you have any questions.

Cost

$350. Box lunch included. Cancellations after July 24 will not be refunded. Minimum of 10 registrants needed for course to be offered. 5 visual art and 5 performing arts spaces available.

Optional Practicum

An optional practicum is offered for teaching artists who have completed the workshop to shadow an artist as they work to coach and mentor the teacher in the classroom. 4 hour practicum: $250. 9 hour practicum: $450.

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