This webinar provides an overview of the 2020 Visual Arts Standards of Learning, and is specifically presented for teachers of elementary visual arts.
Dr. Angela Ammerman shares rehearsal strategies specifically geared toward English Learners (ELs). Learn about resources and strategies to provide language support and engage English Learners in the music classroom.
This webinar and presentation is a previously recorded session, Resources from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.Webinar Description: Join VMFA educators to learn about the new opportunities, resources, and supportive measures developed by Museum staff members in response to the challenges faced by teachers, students, and parents for the 2020-2021 school year. Learn about the major exhibition Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities, and find out about fall opportunities for online Professional Development, distance and digital learning options, remote access to VMFA’s encyclopedic collection, and more.
Drawing on walls, banging on pots, dressing up, singing and dancing like everybody’s watching are ways we get ourselves out into the world. In this webinar, we’ll discuss creative thinking and joy in arts learning for students and teachers. We’ll laugh about best intentions, consider best practices in a new age, and celebrate transforming K-12 students into die-hard arts enthusiasts! Clayton Singleton is a Virginia artist, illustrator, author, and arts educator.
There are specific strategies that can assist us as we plan and present instruction to students with disabilities and differences. Accommodations can be transferred to music classrooms and ensembles. Through careful adaptations and modifications when needed, we can truly meet the needs of all students.
Lesson Demo: Kwame Shaka demonstrates one of his most popular lessons in this active/interactive workshop. We will explore the socio-historical roots and rhythmic movement of the Gumboot Dance, an art form created by forced laborers in the mines of South Africa in the 19th century. Learn how tempo, rhythm, and pattern are used to create a percussive and socially impactful dance. Find the potential in using the power of collective movement to build community in your classroom.Talk Back: Hear Kwame Shaka speak about his 30+ year career as a performing artist and dance educator. Kwame Shaka will discuss his origins in dance, highlights of his career and challenges faced as a professional in showbusiness and education. Learn about his Triumph of Disruption pedagogy and its correlating progressions of success in the classroom. During the talk back, participants are encouraged to ask questions and to add comments to further discussion and bring forth new perspectives.
Artist habits of mind help students reflect on their work by considering learning as a process. These frameworks make thinking visible and, with consistent and pervasive use, develop habitual cultures of thinking in the classroom. Artist habits of mind help students reflect on their creative work by considering learning in the arts as a multilayered process.
In the first part of this session, Jeffrey Allison from VMFA On the Road will share works and educator resources from the traveling state-wide exhibition: A View from Home: Landscapes of Virginia. The paintings, photographs, woodblock prints, and engravings from the museum’s permanent collection represent various styles and periods. The second part of the session will focus on strategies for developing deeply engaging units for K-12 visual arts education using the exhibition as a starting point for deeper exploration. This presentation and collaborative workshop session will highlight project-based and place-based learning approaches to visual arts education.
This session will use various cognitive routines (such as "See-Think-Wonder") to guide educators on how to lead classroom discussions of printed music which uses traditional and nontraditional notation, with young students. Concepts and strategies covered in this session will focus on the Music Standards of Learning of the strand: Critical Thinking and Communication.
The attached infographic resource document describes ways to engage English Learners in music classrooms by making learning visible, supporting the language of music, connecting learning to students' backgrounds and skills, using cooperative learning structures and strategies, and reducing cognitive load and allowing processing time.
The attached infographic resource document describes ways to engage English Learners in visual arts classrooms by making learning visible, supporting the language of visual arts, connecting learning to students' backgrounds and skills, using cooperative learning structures and strategies, and reducing cognitive load and allowing processing time.
This 3-minute screencast provides tips on finding various specific things on #GoOpenVA. The accompanying Word document provides an outline of the tips, and a PowerPoint presentation can be used in a training session.
Webinar Recording and PPT of Supporting Social-Emotional Learning for English Learners, 5-17-2021, by Kathleen Cahoon-Newchok, Shannon Leonard, Pamela Johnson, Karra Shikimachi, and Angelyn Nichols.
Title: Supporting Safe Conversations Surrounding Sensitive TopicsTopic: PD Session (Trauma Informed Symposium)Educational Standards: Professional DevelopmentSubject Area: PD for Secondary Social Studies and English Teachers
PowerPoint presentation from the 2/5/22 Blended Learning conference from Virtual Virginia. The focus in on finding new things on #GoOpenVA to help you in your own growth and in engaging your students.
A short step-by-step with screenshots for how you can easily update the SOL correlations for your previously published resources on #GoOpenVA.
Emily Heller introduced the inaugural monthly 'Visty and Action Demo Slam' webinar, led by the Education Committee with a focus on accessibility. The webinar featured a competition where attendees could demonstrate their own tools and resources. The committee's mission was outlined as producing blog posts and tech reels with quick, useful information for educators. The discussion also highlighted various tech tools used in teaching, including Moote, Remote, and Zip Caption. Later, a Chrome extension called web disability simulator was introduced to help teachers understand the experience of students with various disabilities when using digital tools. The meeting ended with an announcement about an exciting collaboration on a podcast with Vista, the DOE, and Blue Ridge Public Television.
