Educators

CCAD is pleased to offer professional development opportunities for our partners in art education. Whether you need to add new skills to your repertoire, network with colleagues, share resources with your students or just get back in a studio to make art, we have opportunities for you. And as always, feel free to send us your ideas and requests for courses and workshops.

The Creative Educator Workshop
Professional Development
Friday, Oct. 15, 2010
8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Presented by Columbus College of Art & Design and Columbus Museum of Art

$30 includes registration, materials, morning coffee, and lunch.

This daylong interactive workshop will engage teachers in the vital role of creativity in 21st-century learning. Join us to explore strategies that will help you become a creative-skills advocate at your school.

Small-Group Sessions:

Fostering Creative Engagement with Teens
Kristin Lantz, educator, CMA
Learn strategies for creatively engaging high school students with technology while fostering 21st-century learning. Activities and discussions will focus on building a creative learning environment that encourages teen engagement and self-motivation.

Creative Co-Teaching
Jen Gillette, educator, CMA, and Amanda Waluzak, teacher, Arts and College Preparatory Academy
What are the secrets to a successful co-teaching experience that promotes 21st-century skills? Examine and discuss strategies for co-developing and implementing innovative and student-centered curriculum with teachers in your school or with a community partner.

Constructing Creativity in Our Classrooms and Homes
Kathryn Cahill, Sax Arts & Crafts
Imagine and design an environment devoted to developing creativity. Examine your available resources and leave inspired to construct a space specific to your classroom and life.

Building and Documenting Interactive Displays
Merilee Mostov and Susie Underwood, educators, CMA
How can you use readily available space in your school to document student learning and promote critical thinking? Learn how to use displays to encourage student engagement, interactivity, and deeper learning.

A Discussion with Antwone Fisher
Antwone Fisher, director, author, poet, movie producer, and screenwriter
Antwone Fisher will discuss his new book A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie, which shows how honesty, courtesy, and education are key components for self improvement. Fisher is the writer and co-producer of the movie Antwone Fisher, which was inspired by his life. Offered AM session only.

Collaborative Pedagogies to Develop 21st Century Skills
Sharon Buda, teacher, Dublin City Schools
Creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration are essential skills today. Investigate strategies that develop students’ skills in these areas through artistic creation and reflection.

Wonder and Play
Sean Foley, faculty, Ohio State University
Engaging a sense of wonder, curiosity, and play is crucial to promoting creative thinking. Explore how to actively and constructively build these essential foundations in your students’ work and processes.

Critical Thinking, Conversation, and Idea Building
Emily Reiser, educator, CMA
Conversation and brainstorming are essential for students of all ages in the process of generating creative concepts. Explore and develop methods to promote imagination and critical thought in your students.

Connecting Student Interests to the Learning Experience
Ilona Szekely, professor, University of Eastern Kentucky
The museum experience of viewing, contemplating, and analyzing art begins in the classroom. Discover the importance of creating a classroom environment that fosters dialogue and understanding of student interests with collections.

Pop the Top on Creativity
Todd Camp, educator, King Arts Complex
What is the key to fostering creativity in your students? You! Explore practical and ready-to-use ideas that will infuse creativity into your classroom, teaching practice, and personal life.

Owning Your Subject
Chris Yates, faculty, CCAD
View The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis together and discuss the idea of creative ownership, with a focus on the transformation of the familiar into the unexpected.

Design Thinking
Christian Long, founder, Be Playful Design
Today’s students grow up facing increasingly complex problems—requiring a multi-faceted set of skills, techniques, and perspectives. Utilize ideas from the professional realm of “design thinking” to arm students with the creative confidence to tackle the unique challenges that define their future.

Out of the Box
Tim Rietenbach, faculty, CCAD
Roll up your sleeves and put your heads together to battle a problem using your hands and imaginations in defiance of gravity—and win!

Good As New
Julie Abijanic, faculty, CCAD
Educators in today’s funding environment need innovative ways to be creative in the classroom. Discuss how to obtain and use reclaimed materials; review artists who create beautiful work using these materials; and develop a related classroom project.

Helpful Links

Visit our Continuing Education page for a full listing of classes and workshops.

Go to the Career Services Web Resources page for helpful links to use and share with students.

Check out the U.S. Department of Labor’s website for resources in the Occupational Outlook Handbook at http://www.bls.gov/OCO/

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