Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $500; 4 q.h. graduate credits, $820

 

Teachers face numerous challenges on all levels of education.  Integrating the arts into your curriculum is a sure way to get your students excited about learning and energize your classroom.  The arts enable us to better engage our students in the material that we are required to teach, reach students who have different learning styles, and allow students' creativity to flourish.

 

The purpose of this course is to introduce teachers to the value of integrating the arts modalities into the everyday curriculum by providing teachers with strategies that can be used immediately in their classes.  Activities that appeal to the multiple intelligences will be explored through participation, readings, discussions, and presentations.

 

We will tap our own creativity and imagination in order to experience the kind of learning that we should come to expect of our students when using the arts in our teaching practice.  You can expect to engage in drama, poetry, music, creative movement, and visual art.  You will not spend a lot of time sitting and listening in this course!  You will participate in the activities so you can become comfortable using them in your own classroom.

 

Instructors: Jeffrey Billard and Keith Caldwell have over 40 years combined experience at the secondary level teaching literature, writing, drama, film, and communication.  They also provide teacher training in arts-based learning and hold Masters Degrees in Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley University.