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POTENTIAL WORKSHOPS LEAD BY JMCA STAFF
These workshops can all exist separately, or can be combined. Each workshop can last between 1-3 hours. The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts can also custom-design workshops for your site and participants.
Contact Rica Anderson at 510-845-8542 ext. 376 for more information and pricing.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards
- What the standards are
- How to use them in your work
- How the standards can help you develop age-appropriate lessons
- Touchstones to validate what you are already doing
- Using the standards to dialogue with teaching artists
- Using artistic vocabulary, creating an art toolbox
Arts Skills Workshops
- Warm-ups, activities, practices, and themes you can take away and try out in the classroom
- Dance, theatre, music, or visual arts
Multiple Intelligences/Multiple Modalities
- Complete a multiple intelligences survey about your own learning preferences
- The theory of multiple intelligences
- Arts as equity
- Examples of using multiple modalities within a lesson
Connecting with Literacy
- What are the literacy standards?
- Literacy defined as reading, writing, listening, speaking
- Brainstorming activities to try
- Children’s books to use in your classes or as springboards
- Reflection activities
Teaching Resources
- Websites
- Books on teaching the arts
- Books for children on the arts
- Workshops in the community
- E-mail lists, organizations
- Support systems within the community
Arts and Special Needs Students
- Best practices for increasing access to arts participation
- Activities and themes that foster creative exploration and individual connection with and ownership of the arts
- Classroom management tools for navigating within structured creative chaos
- Resource lists for classroom teachers
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