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HOT Schools 2006 Summer Institute
“The Art of Higher Order Thinking”
July 12 Wednesday 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 (W1. – W8.) on the Registration Form. Please include your first and second choices.
W1. Ceremony in Learning Spaces
Facilitator: Christopher Eaves
Explore how we can enliven learning spaces and enrich our curriculum through the experience of ceremony. “When humans participate in ceremony –emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy life, this energy reaches out-all is made new; everything becomes sacred.” Sun Bear, Native American Ojibwa Medicine Chief (1929-1992). Participants in this workshop will collaboratively design ceremonies to foster classroom communities where every student is engaged in success.
W2. Creative Writing "Take Five"
Facilitator: Leslie Johnson
Try your hand at five fun and fast creative writing exercises. Take home samples, directions, and materials to use with your own students! In this creative but practical workshop, led by an experienced teaching artist, participants will share techniques and tips for adding sparkle to the classroom writing experience.
W3. Dance For Every Body: Creative Expression Through Dance
Facilitator: Celeste Miller
Engage in simple, relaxing, energizing and inspiring activities drawn from Modern Dance, Yoga, and T'ai Chi while dancing to world music and poetry. This is an "all ages, all bodies, all abilities" dance for self-expression workshop. No previous experience necessary.
W4. How Do You Do? A Smorgasbord of Best Practice Ideas
Facilitator: Gail Freeman
Come explore ways to engage and empower learners, grades 3-6. Learn classroom practices that best support children’s development and use of higher order thinking. Engage in some simple and complex things you can do to create a culture of higher order thinking in your classroom. Decide what you might introduce in your classroom. This hands-on format will also encourage you to share your own best practices with others.
W5. 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.”
W6. Quality Learning Through Integrated Art-based Projects
Facilitator: Deborah Brzoska
Take part in arts-integrated lessons and learn how to improve the quality of student thinking through rich, arts-based projects. Effective arts-based curriculum can help teachers meet the challenge of providing rigor, relevance and relationships in the classroom.
W7. The Artist Within Us All ~ Finding Your Long Lost Musician
Facilitators: David Darling
Develop tools for life-long musical performance and appreciation. Each participant will discover and work with his or her musical abilities using their voice, body and instruments. Participants will develop skills, new attitudes, methods, strategies, and personal power to integrate the arts into the daily classroom. Participants leave with a humorous, joyful, and exhilarating sense of their musical creations. No previous experience in making music is necessary.
W8. Writing and Math through Music
Facilitator: Chris Tranberg
Explore the guiding question “How can math and writing be integrated with music instruction in ways that nurture both the classroom content and art discipline.” Participants will explore content that naturally relates to arts disciplines as well as content that is more challenging to relate to arts disciplines. They will learn music and movement strategies that support standards based planning and assessment.
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