Upcoming Fine Arts Webinars
There are many opportunities coming up for professional learning and connecting with creative colleagues from across the Commonwealth. Advance registration is required. Click the date to register.
Studios, Stages, & Students: Real Reasons We Keep Coming Back
Thursday, August 27, 2020 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Drawing on walls, banging on pots, dressing up, singing and dancing like everybody’s watching are ways we get ourselves out into the world. In this webinar, we will discuss creative thinking and joy in arts learning for students and teachers. We will laugh about best intentions, consider best practices in a new age, and celebrate transforming K-12 students into die-hard arts enthusiasts! Clayton Singleton is a Virginia artist, illustrator, author, and arts educator.
VISUAL ARTS Community Engagement in Visual Arts
Tuesday, August 25, 2020, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
This webinar is an opportunity to explore community engagement as it relates to the History, Culture, and Citizenship strand in the 2020 Visual Arts Standards of Learning. Participants will consider relevant artistic concepts related to community, develop a deeper understanding of the K-12 community engagement standards, and explore a variety of tested elementary, middle, and high school lesson examples that align with the standard.
MUSIC Applying the Creative Process to Elementary General Music Room
Thursday, August 27, 2020, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
In this webinar we will discuss the Creative Process strand in the Music standards and share ideas on implementation in the elementary general music room. We will explore adapting current best practices in order to make conscious the inherent elements of the creative process. We will examine new methods of adding elements of the creative process into the classroom, through virtual, blended, and in-person instruction practices.
VISUAL ARTS Resources from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Tuesday, September 1, 2020, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Join VMFA educators to learn about the new opportunities, resources, and supportive measures developed by Museum staff members in response to the challenges faced by teachers, students, and parents for the 2020-2021 school year. Learn about the major exhibition Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities, and find out about fall opportunities for online Professional Development, distance and digital learning options, remote access to VMFA’s encyclopedic collection, and more.
Digital Resources for Fine Arts Educators from the Library of Congress
Tuesday, September 15, 2020, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. This webinar will focus on the extensive collections of digital resources of the Library of Congress that could be used in fine arts instruction. Engagement with primary source documents related to fine arts can spark deeper learning and interdisciplinary connections for fine arts students, for in-person or virtual instruction. Carolyn Bennett, former Library of Congress Teacher-in-Residence, will model how digital primary sources can be applied in the fine arts classroom.
MUSIC Teaching Students with Differences in Music Classrooms
Wednesday. September 16, 2020, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Dr. Alice Hammel will be leading this webinar in differentiation strategies for music education. There are specific strategies that can assist us as we plan and present instruction to students with disabilities and differences. Accommodations can be transferred to music classrooms and ensembles. Through careful adaptations and modifications when needed, we can truly meet the needs of all students.
THEATRE ARTS Interdisciplinary Connections with Theatre Arts
Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Participants will gain resources and strategies focused on how the fundamentals of theatre can connect students to their learning, their peers, and themselves. Participants will understand how this connection creates a relevance and rigor that gives their students the skills necessary for success in and out of the classroom. Participants will also understand the role the state standards can play in creating these connections—specifically regarding the Five Cs. Ryan Henderson will be leading this webinar.
GoOpenVA for Fine Arts Educators
Wednesday, September 30, 2020, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Participants will learn how to use #GoOpenVA to locate arts-based lessons (many of which are also cross-curricular). All such lessons are openly-licensed so they can be adapted to your own students and purposes. Additionally, #GoOpenVA provides a community space for teachers to connect with each other in these challenging times, when everyone is learning how to approach teaching in new ways.
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