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HOT Schools 2006 Summer Institute
“The Art of Higher Order Thinking”

July 10             Monday Workshops                3:15 ~ 5:30PM

Afternoon workshops provide a sampling of artistic experiences and creative teaching methodologies designed to unleash the artist within you and to provide glimpses into the exceptional collaborative work being done by your colleagues. Consider taking a workshop in which you have had no previous experience. Please indicate your workshop choice (M1. M8.)  on the Registration Form. Please include your first and second choices.

M1.  Assessment in the Arts: Creating Rubrics with Kids to Promote learning
Facilitator:  Deborah Brzoska

Assessment holds exciting prospects for arts education, and raises questions about providing effective feedback to students about their work in the arts.  In this interactive workshop, participants learn a process for creating simple rubrics with students as well as ways to involve co-workers, artists and community members in the process.

M2.  Discovering your Learning Style
Facilitator: Victor Klein

The long and rich history of learning styles begins with psychologist Carl Jung, who noted differences in the ways people take in information through sensing or intuition, make decisions about that information through thinking and feeling, and interact with others in an introverted or extroverted manner.  The preferences we and our students hold in each of these capacities develop into learning styles.  Participants will discover their style and its effect on their relationships, and their manner of presenting in their classrooms.

M3. High Tech TAC ( Teacher Artist Collaboration)
Facilitator: Mark Patnode 

This workshop is an introduction on how to use technology as an arts learning tool in the classroom.  Educators not trained in computer-based technology approaches are often frustrated and uncomfortable with the rapid pace of technology and its place in the arts integrated classroom.  Learn solutions via computer-based software to meet your students’ creative needs.  Achieve a grass-roots understanding of design approaches that will bring students closer to the world of technology.  

M4.  Metaphorming
Facilitator: Suzanne Petersen

Learn to use your creativity to improve your life and the lives of your students through Metaphorming.  Metaphorming enables everyone to be more creative and innovative, to make connections and solve problems, and to improve communication. Metaphorming involves making symbolic models that will help you and your students express thoughts and present ideas in new and effective ways. This workshop is a sneak-peak into the morning track “Think Like A Genius.”  

M5.  Poetry Inspired By Music, Movement, and Art
Facilitator:  Sharon Berndt

Open the pathways to poetic language by engaging in a unique process for writing poetry.  Participants will create an extensive bank of expressive words and phrases inspired by rich text and instrumental music.  Using this process, children of all ages (and reticent adults) can create amazing poems.   

M6.  Taking the Heart on the Road: Designing Teacher/Artist Collaborations
Facilitator: Doe Boyle

In this interactive workshop, participants will explore ways in which visiting artists and classroom teachers can design lessons, workshops, and collaborations that honor their personal ideological and spiritual missions. Participants will examine how to maintain integrity and creativity while creating programs that meet curricular guidelines, discuss ways to establish boundaries that respect the gifts the educator can (or cannot) bring to the classroom, and ensure that the work carries positive energy to the classroom each day.  

M7.  Two Kingdoms: A model for arts integration and community building
Facilitator: Kathleen Gaffney

Participants in this workshop will discover truths about the nature and culture of groups. Through the lens of improvisation, participants will create two kingdoms to explore their differences and similarities.  Participants will have a chance to experiment with leadership, collaboration, and responsibility as they find and define their roles in the kingdoms created. Participants will use multiple arts disciplines to celebrate their respective new cultures. This experiential model can be adapted to explore curriculum integration and can be used to promote leadership, and collaboration in the classroom.

M8.  Zen Yoga for Children
Facilitator: Aaron Hoopes

Zen Yoga is a blend of the gentle, flowing movement of Tai Chi, the peaceful stretching of Shanti Yoga and the energized breathing exercise of Qigong. It is a holistic practice that addresses body, mind and spirit. Zen Yoga for Children seeks to equip young people with healthy lifestyle skills at an early age to enable them to meet the challenges of the world today. This participatory workshop offers personal development skills that can be a benefit to instructors as well as their students.

 






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