Fifth Third Bank Theater & Rehearsal Hall, Aronoff Center for the Arts
(enter 7th & Main Sts)
To Register: CET website (click here)
Cost: $20.00 (includes lunch)
Discover how to engage your students through the arts and increase their critical thinking, creativity and communication skills, for teachers (all grades, classroom and specialists)
Schedule for day:
- 8:30-11:30 am: Session I
- 11:30 am - 12:30 pm: Lunch/ Tour of Weston Art Gallery (optional)
- 12:30-3:30 pm: Session II (groups switch spaces)
- 3:30-4:00 pm: Wrap-up (both groups come together in Rehearsal Hall)
- 4:00 pm: Tour of Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center (optional)
VTS: Using Art to Teach Thinking and Communication Skills
by Phillip Yenawine
This workshop will introduce VTS, which is both a curriculum that integrates visual art usefully into ongoing classroom practice and a window into facilitating open-ended discussions that students enjoy and learn from equally. VTS will be demonstrated, analyzed and discussed in terms of the research that led to its form and content.
Integrating Dance and Literary Skills in the Classroom
by Margot Greenlee
This workshop will provide numerous methods for integrating and teaching dance fundamentals and literacy skills. Learn how to invite your students into the creative process through dance and reinforce their learning at the same time. Discover how to turn your classroom into a dance studio and learning laboratory!
About the Presenters
Philip Yenawine is co-founder of Visual Understanding in Education (www.vue.org), a non-profit educational research organization that develops and studies ways of teaching visual literacy and of using art to teach critical thinking and communication skills. VUEs curriculum, Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), is in use in schools across the U.S. as well as in seven countries of the former Soviet Union. Yenawine is the recipient of the National Art Education Association Award for Distinguished Service, 1993; National Art Education Association Museum Educator of the Year, 1991; New York State Governor's Award for Visual AIDS and A Day Without Art, 1990; New York State Governor's Award for The Museum of Modern Art's program for people with hearing disabilities, 1984.
Margot Greenlee, Teaching Artist and Choreographer, completed her MFA at The Ohio State University and began conducting dance residencies for the Ohio Arts Councils Arts in Education program in 1996. She was a company member with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (www.danceexchange.org) from 1999-2007. There she worked as a performer, arts educator, choreographer, and project director. Currently, she is an Adjunct Artist for the Dance Exchange and serves on the arts faculty at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.
