Creative approaches to Learning Seminar
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Creative Approaches to Learning Seminar ? Last Chance to Sign Up!
After the success of last year?s event, South Dublin County Council?s Arts Office is holding another professional development day for secondary school teachers, transition year and school completion coordinators, and anyone else who is interested.
Friday, October 1st, 2010; 9:30am ? 4:00pm, RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre
Register by: Thursday, Sept 23rd at noon. Booking is Essential. Spaces are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment.
Aim: To demonstrate practical ways that arts practise can be an aid to teaching for learning and for the curriculum.
Who: Secondary School Teachers and School Completion and Transition Year Coordinators. You do not need to be an art teacher to take part. The day is for teachers from across the curriculum. PLEASE SHARE this with teachers you feel will be interested.
What can be gained?
- Creative learning techniques via an active, hands-on workshop that will be applicable to school lessons;
- A packet with ideas and usable lesson plans that can be used and adapted to your own lessons; and
- Opportunities to discuss and work through some of the ideas with artists, and colleagues.
Programme: All workshops consist of hands-on activities and lesson plans that link directly to national curriculum requirements and can be used directly and immediately in the classroom. There will also be time for discussion.
Derek West, Arts and Education Officer for NAPD, will speak about the Creative Engagement Fund and Projects, managed by NAPD.
Movement and the Curriculum - Awareness of Peoples, Places and Landscapes
Dance Artist Louise Costelloe will lead a workshop linking dance and movement to CPSHE, Architecture, and Geography. Participants will be given practical ideas for ways to examine and respond creatively to different spaces, observing and mapping their features and connecting human interaction with the environment.
Music and the Curriculum
Composer and Musician Michael Fleming will focus on the links between Music and English for the Junior Cert.
He will show ways that music can aid in the delineation of characters from novels and plays and in examining broader narrative-based themes. For those interested, there will be time to discuss practical links between music and the Sciences and Maths.
Visual Arts and the Curriculum ? More than Meets the Eye
Carolyn Jones, Development Officer of RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre, will lead a workshop exploring how the narrative of a visual art exhibition can enhance learning in English. Participants will tour the exhibition, This Land Again, by photographer Peter Murray. Learning tools for Geography and CPSHE will also be discussed.
Architecture Across the Curriculum
Practicing architect Aoife Banim on behalf of the Irish Architecture Foundation will introduce participants to the world of Architecture.? This workshop will be a creative and hands-on activity using buildings and spaces around us for learning in Art and Design, Technology, Maths, Science and other subject areas.
To register for the day, please contact Tori Durrer, Youth Arts Coordinator at vdurrer@sdublincoco.ie or 0860479535 by noon on September 23rd, 2010.
This event is an initiative of South Dublin County Council?s Arts office and supported by RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre and the Irish Architecture Foundation.?