ARTS FOR ALL: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHING ARTISTS
If you are a teaching artist who wants to maintain the integrity of your creative vision in your arts lessons’ while aligning with the California State Academic Content Standards in the Visual and Performing Arts and other core curricular areas such as Open Court, these workshops are for you. Master teaching artists will model successful, grade-appropriate, standards-based lessons. Registrants must have participated previously in an introductory course on the standards or have prior knowledge of the standards. A distinct workshop is offered for each arts discipline.
TO REGISTER FOR WORKSHOPS, COMPLETE THE FORM, BELOW.
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INTEGRATING THE MAGIC OF WORLD MUSIC WITH THE STANDARDS
Teaching artists will explore diverse approaches to teaching and modeling the arts with award-winning World Music composer, performer and artist-educator John Zeretzke. Through hands-on activities, participants will reflect on their own approaches to teaching the arts and discover different pathways to learning, which will inform their teaching practices. The workshops will include modeling of successful arts lessons, discussions about lesson design, and approaches to aligning arts experiences with the VAPA standards.
Instructor: John Zeretzke is a leading teaching artist and presenter associated with the Los Angeles Music Center, the California Arts Project and the California Literature Project. He performs for thousands of children annually across the nation.
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
2:00-4:30 p.m.
1 session
$30
Long Beach City College, Liberal Arts Campus
(located at Clark and Harvey Way), Room H103
Park in Lot E. Cost is $1.
Register by May 4th
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EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY: SUCCESSFUL VISUAL ART LESSONS AND THE STANDARDS
Participants in this workshop will engage in a hands-on visual art lesson geared towards the elementary level that meets the VAPA standards, other academic content standards and Open Court themes. Various teaching and assessment strategies will be demonstrated and teacher packets with tried and true lesson plans will be distributed. Through a narrative mural-making art lesson, participants will learn how to develop a cross-curricular approach to lesson plan design using language arts as a departure point.
Instructor: Angelica Sotiriou is an LAUSD Artist in Residence and Teacher In-Service Instructor through Angels Gate Cultural Center and an adjunct faculty member at the University of California’s Rossier School of Education.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
2:00-4:30 p.m.
1 session
$30
Museum of Latin American Art
628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802
Free parking is available on site.
Register by May 8th
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VAPA GOES TO THE THEATER
Participants will receive a sample standards-based theater arts curriculum geared towards 6th grade that was originally developed for The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company, a non-profit organization that brings theater arts to the most at-risk young people in the foster care and juvenile justice systems. This theater arts program includes improvisation, monologues and scenes and will provide further modeling for teaching artists who want to strengthen or better articulate their lessons’ alignment with the standards. Workshop leader Zoot Velasco will also share tips for focusing groups who are not used to being focused.
Instructor: Zoot Velasco manages the Homeland Cultural Center in Long Beach and was formerly a dance and theater artist who toured internationally, teaching in schools, juvenile halls, prisons and hospitals under numerous grants and commissions.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
2:00-4:30 p.m.
1 session
$30
Homeland Cultural Center/MacArthur Park
1321 East Anaheim Street, Long Beach, CA 90813
Free parking is available in the lot on Gundry and on the street.
Register by May 15th
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MOVIN’ AND GROOVIN’: TIPS FOR STRENGTHENING DANCE LESSONS IN THE CLASSROOM
Participants will engage in an interactive dance lesson designed for the elementary level that meets the VAPA standards and supports other subject areas in the curriculum. Seasoned teaching artist, Nannette Brodie, will model her best practices for successful dance lessons in the classroom and provide tips, suggestions and insights for other teaching artists to strengthen their dance lessons and make them more attractive to teachers and administrators.
Instructor: Nannette Brodie is a dancer, choreographer and educator who has performed, taught and led workshops nationally and internationally for seventeen years. She was nominated for a Lester Horton Dance Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2000.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
1 session
$30
Homeland Cultural Center/MacArthur Park
1321 East Anaheim Street, Long Beach, CA 90813
Free parking is available
Register by May 22nd
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Training programs and the Arts Education Resource Directory are key strategies in Arts for All: Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education, which is designed to increase sequential K-12 instruction in dance, music, theatre and the visual arts throughout the districts in the County. To learn more about Arts for All or the on-line Resource Directory, please visit www.lacountyarts.org or contact Sofia Klatzker, the Arts Commission’s Arts Education Coordinator at sklatzker@lacountyarts.org. Both can be reached at 213-974-1343.
Primary Funding provided by The Dana Foundation.
Additional Funding for Arts for All is provided by Entertainment Industry Foundation, Boeing, Creative Artists Agency, The Getty Foundation, Herb Alpert Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Target Corporation, Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation, Warner Bros. Entertainment and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
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DISCIPLINE- BASED WORKSHOPS REGISTRATION
Reservations are required for all workshops.
Mail to:
Arts Council for Long Beach
Arts for All Workshops
110 W. Ocean Blvd., Ste. 20
Long Beach, CA 90802
Phone: 562-432-5100, ext. 237
Fax to: 562-432-5175
Visit www.artslb.org.
Name ____________________________________________
Address ___________________________________________
Phone Number _____________________________________
Email Address _______________________________________
Workshop(s) you would like to attend – check all that apply
__ INTEGRATING THE MAGIC OF WORLD MUSIC WITH THE STANDARDS
Tuesday, May 9, 2006 2:00-4:30 p.m.
__ EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY: SUCCESSFUL VISUAL ART LESSONS AND THE STANDARDS
Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:00-4:30 p.m.
__ VAPA GOES TO THE THEATER
Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:00-4:30 p.m.
__ MOVIN’ AND GROOVIN’: TIPS FOR STRENGTHENING DANCE LESSONS IN THE CLASSROOM
Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Amount of payment: $ _________________________________(Include $30 per workshop)
Method of payment (check one):
__ Check (Make checks payable to Arts Council for Long Beach.).
__ Visa __ Mastercard Credit card number __________________ ___ Exp. ___________
Name of card holder _____________________________________
Signature _______________________________________________
Elena Arrojo
Director of Grants
Arts Council for Long Beach
110 W. Ocean Blvd., Ste. 20
Long Beach, CA 90802
PH (562) 432-5100, ext. 237
Fax (562) 432-5175
www.artspca.org
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