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Learn how to become a teaching artist
Want to become a teaching artist? Want to work in schools helping kids with their academic subjects through your art form? That’s what teaching artists do. They are arts professionals who use their art form as a catalyst for teaching and learning across the academic curriculum. They might bring mathematics to life via dance, history to life via visual arts, science to life via music, and peer issues to life via theater. They are versatile and inventive and know how to engage emotion, imagery and creativity in the exploration of the meaning of things. They work closely with kids and teachers in classrooms K-12 and have learned to open minds and hearts to the power of imagination and the joy of learning.
The Arts Council presents the fifth in the 2009 workshop series, What Every Artist Wants to Know, but Is Afraid to Ask, on How to Become a Teaching Artist. The workshop, sponsored by Jacobowitz and Gubits, is June 23 from 7-9:30pm at the Arts Council office, 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf and the cost is $15, or free for Artist & Organization Members.
The world of the teaching artist is a place of transformations, not least for those who choose it as a part of their life’s work. It is not for everyone and it is not easy, but it can be deeply rewarding for anyone with the talent and dedication to channel their gifts in this particular way. The skill set for success as a teaching artist begins with a passion for your art form and a love of young people, but also includes learning how to use your art form to bring ideas to life across the academic curriculum in an organized way, learning how to collaborate with classroom teachers, how to manage potentially difficult classroom environments, how to work with children who learn differently, and how to know what children are actually learning.
Master teaching artist, John Cimino, president and founder of The Learning Arts and Creative Leaps International, will be your guide for entering this world of arts and cross-disciplinary learning. This first session is introductory and will lay the groundwork for a series of training workshops for those who wish to pursue full arts council endorsement. Those teaching artists will become part of the council’s roster of TAs positioned and ready to serve as a qualified resource to schools requesting teaching artists throughout the county.
The Orange County Arts Council is a non-profit arts service organization dedicated to strengthening the Arts in Orange County by providing educational, promotional and informational services to artists, arts organizations and the community. The Council also works to facilitate relationships between the arts, schools, businesses, government and the public through its various programs. These include: Arts for Vets, Arts in Education, Annual Arts Awards, Advocacy, discounted Health Insurance, Workshops & Seminars and Town Meetings & Artist Mixers. For more information about the workshop or the Council, contact Susan Linn at 845.469.9168 or www.ocartscouncil.org
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