Creativity Reboot for the Art Teacher's Classroom
Course 5225
Spark your inspiration and get creative in this one-of-a kind course, designed by an art educator, for PreK-12th grade visual art teachers!
Creativity is an essential component of a vibrant art classroom, and it starts with the teacher. Guided by the course text, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad, you’ll reconnect with your creative process and foster an environment that encourages student creativity, too.
You’ll develop activities that support students’ social-emotional skills and identity, engage with “artivism,” and build connections through collaborative and local art. Because traditional grading practices can stifle creativity, you’ll learn how to design meaningful assessments that promote reflection and ongoing growth. “Creativity Pauses” sprinkled throughout nurture your imagination along the way.
After completing this course, you’ll be energized to incorporate new ideas for a creativity reboot in your classroom!
What you will learn:
Goals and Objectives of this Course:
- Use provided prompts specific to creativity in arts education, to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional educational practice.
- Design an activity focused on “artivism,” art as a voice for change that fosters inclusive identity development.
- Prepare an art experience that involves students in creative collaboration with each other, the community, and local artists.
- Implement social-emotional learning with intention and creativity through the artistic process.
- Develop an action plan to challenge the status quo related to arts curriculum selection or assessment practices.
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