Elective Courses – Fall 2010
The first of its kind in the United States, the Arts Integration Specialist Certificate Program (AISCP) 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.
The Arts Integration Specialist Certificate 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. A suite of elective courses offered by qualified arts educators, teaching artists, and arts organizations has been identified by the Alameda County Office of Education in partnership with Teaching Artists Organized (TAO). These courses are all hands-on, designed to increase skills and knowledge, as well as providing pedagogical approaches in specific art forms.
New professional development opportunities will be added throughout the year, so check back regularly.
Workshops of 5 hours or more can earn CEU credit and/or qualify as electives in the Arts Integration Specialist Program certificate offered by Alameda County Office of Education. They also may be taken for no credit.
Schedule:
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Making Process Books
Day & Times: Saturday 9 am – 1 pm, Dec 4
Instructor: Caren Andrews
Location: Art Studio, San Francisco Friends School, 250 Valencia St
Hours: 4*
Open to all disciplines, for teaching artists with some experience
Cost: $50
Documentation is a crucial tool that provides insight and understanding of how our students learn and how we teach them. Process Books are one way to take documentation, change it into a journal, and catalogue what happens in the classroom. The books are where learning is made visible and teaching more transparent. Process Books become a resource for teachers, students, and the communities they work in. In this workshop participants will come to appreciate and understand how to transform documentation into a Process Book. The workshop will be hands on with everyone crafting their own Process Book, learning while doing.
Caren Andrews is an Art Teacher at San Francisco Friends School
Materials:
Basic materials provided. Participants must bring their own documentation to turn into a Process Book. For example: unit outlines, photographs of students at work, examples of the student finished assignment (originals, photographs &/or photo copies), examples of student written reflections, examples of research used, student quotes, and any other information distributed while teaching the unit. If you have favorite materials (rubber stamps, colored paper or tape, markers, etc.) you would like to use, please bring them.
To register, email Caren Andrews.
* Students taking this workshop for a half-credit or towards the AISP certificate will be asked to submit their process book from the class, along with a written reflection on how they plan to use this tool and how it will impact their teaching practice.
Museum Field Trips and Arts Integration Resources
Day & Times: 3 Saturdays 9:30 am-3:00 pm, Sept 18; Oct 16; Nov 6
Instructor: Trena Noval
Credits: 1
Open to all disciplines, no prerequisites
Cost: $150
How can local museums become classroom resources for arts learning across the curriculum? What thinking routines can help students look at and understand contemporary art and make connections to other content areas? We will visit different museums, meet with their education departments to explore classroom resources, tour collections in galleries to make curriculum connections and learn about thinking routine that can help students develop ways to look at and talk about art. Museums include: de Young Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum of California, Museum of African Diaspora, and the Children’s Museum of Art (MOCHA) in Oakland. You will receive materials to take into your classrooms and have the opportunity to develop an action plan for using these resources throughout the school year and learn about field trip opportunities.
Trena Noval is on the Faculty at California College of the Arts and Mills College Graduate School of Education, and is a member of the Arts Integration Specialist Program Faculty.
To register, email Trena Noval.
Coaching for Teaching Artists
Day & Times: First class Tuesday, Sept 7, 4 pm. Individual coaching sessions and additional classes will be scheduled at this first class.
Instructor: Arlene Shmaeff
Location: ASCEND School, 12th and 38th, in the Fruitvale neighborhood, Oakland.
Hours: 10
Credits: 1
Open to all disciplines; students must be currently working in a classroom
Deadline to register: Sept 2, 2010
Cost: $200
This class gives the teaching artist the opportunity to develop the tools that support reflecting on classroom practice. Each participant will set his/her own personal goals. Coaching will involve three in-class observations with individual coaching sessions, and three class periods meeting with the other participants. We will use the Studio Habits of Mind and Project Zero protocols to reflect on our teaching practice. Limited to four participants.
Arlene Shmaeff was a classroom teacher for many years, an art teacher in the public schools for many years and the Director of Education at the Museum of Children’s Art for 15 years. Among her many jobs at MOCHA, she coached and trained the teaching artists.
To register, e-mail Arlene Shmaeff or phone her at 510-530-4666.