VSA Webinar: Structuring a Professional Development Program for Special Education Classrooms
March 31, 2015 3-4pm EDT
Posted Monday March 23 2015 at 11:27 am.
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Description: This webinar will focus on the structure of a professional development program which teaches best practices and strategies for implementing the arts in all levels of special education. This program, the Teaching Artist Training Institute (TATI), examines interactions between classroom teachers, teaching artists, administrative staff, paraprofessionals, related service providers, and parents to provide context for all aspects of instruction in a special education classroom.
Topics to be discussed:
• Variety of entry points for trainee learning: observation, immediate discussion of what has been observed, experientials, written reflection
• Context of trainee learning: in-class, whole school, professional development day, lunch discussions, and interface with related service providers, classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, parents, administrative staff
• Exposure to multiple modalities: physical theater, music, and visual arts
When: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 3-4pm EDT
Level Addressed: Beginner
Intended Participants: Our webinar will discuss how to structure an all-inclusive professional development program for special education. Anyone who is interested in working in the special education classroom is encouraged to attend, including school administrators, arts organization professionals, teaching artists, classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, related service providers, art therapists, and parents.
Presenters:
• Joan Merwyn is a professional development curriculum designer, master teaching artist, and an internationally acclaimed performance artist, working in the fields of movement and theater.
• Erica Rooney, a licensed Creative Arts Therapist as well as a painter and a poet, brings to her practice as a teaching artist the time-tested observation that when doing art with any population, any age or any sized group, the teachers are many - the art material itself, the student's exploration, and lastly, the person called "teacher."
• Susan Natacha Gonzalez, an artist, teaching artist, and art therapist with 15 years of experience, has extensive research experience in the fields of art, education, creativity, art therapy, and child development and has carried out her multi‐modal practice in a variety of settings, including schools, homeless shelters, and community based organizations.
• Hansa Sharma, a web designer, yogi, and black belt in Tae Kwon Do, is the Project Manager for VSA-NYC; she oversees the technical and logistical aspects of VSA-NYC undertakings
Registration: Please click here.
Real-time captioning will be available at http://www.streamtext.net/player?event=JFKCENTER during the webinar presentation. To request an accommodation or receive these materials in an alternate format, contact: Lisa Damico at lvdamico@kennedy-center.org by March 26, 2015.
If you are unable to attend the live webinar, by registering you will automatically receive a link to a recording following its completion.
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