Education Programs: Professional Development for Teachers

This workshop, developed and taught by Neida Bangerter, will lead participants into levels of exploration and understanding of visual art through active learning. It will include strategies for teaching with exemplars, Elements of Art and Principles of Design, and materials and techniques for drawing and painting. These activities will model simple integration approaches to language arts and modes of assessing student work. Participants will understand how the arts can communicate ideas and engage us in meaningful experiences to help raise our understanding and appreciation.

In order for teachers to understand how to teach visual art to their students and meet the expectation of HCPS, they need opportunities to investigate these areas through experiential learning. This knowledge enables participants to be confident and successful with the inclusion of visual arts in their classroom. The benefits of this workshop include: Taking risks with ideas and self expression Development 20th century skills of creativity, communication and collaboration Learning to share and respect personal opinions Understanding and appreciation of history and cultural connections

DATES: February 4, February 25 and March 17, 2012
LOCATION: Tenney Theatre, St. Andrew’s Cathedral
COST: $150
DEADLINE: January 23, 2012

Neida Bangerter is the Gallery Director at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Schaefer International Gallery. She oversees exhibit programming to include planning, organizing, curating and presenting exhibitions and educational opportunities. She attended the Kansas City Art Institute and has an extensive history as an exhibiting artist in juried, invitational exhibits, local galleries and private collections. Neida is an advanced Teaching Artist with the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Teaching Artist Roster and is a presenter of professional development for teachers, artists, schools and community organizations, at a local and national level since 2000. She was a part of the arts curriculum writing team for the The Arts For Every Student Framework for the Idaho Commission on the Arts and the Essential Arts Toolkit, for the Hawaii Dept. of Education.

Through this series of professional development activities designed and taught by Jamie Simpson Steele and Mauli Cook, teachers will apply the elements of dance and drama to enhance student reading comprehension. Dance strategies require students to physically transform stories into images, while drama strategies involve students in giving voice to character perspectives. Teachers will learn how to engage students kinesthetically, emotionally, and intellectually as they develop their ideas about themes, messages, settings, characters, and details of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures described in text. In addition, using stories from immigrant students’ home cultures helps foster understanding and appreciation among children in a diverse classroom. In this workshop, we will be working with Filipino tales as an example of how stories from around the world can help motivate physical and verbal expression. In anticipation for Hawaii’s transition to Common Core Standards (http:// www.corestandards.org/) this workshop will focus on reading literature for key ideas and details. The standards of this topic challenge students to make observations about details in a story, retell stories, understand messages and themes within stories, and describe characters in stories.

DATES: Feb 11, March 3 and March 31, 2012
LOCATION: OCISS, 22nd Ave
COST: $150
DEADLINE: January 30, 2012

Mauli Ola Cook, a national teaching artist with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Partners in Education program, has presented at numerous summer teacher institutes on Maui and Oahu as well as the mainland. She teaches creative movement and Hawaiian studies in elementary schools on Kauai and presents professional development for teachers and teaching artists. Mauli is currently on the faculty of Kula elementary and Kanuikapono Hawaiian Charter School as Hawaiian Studies and Creative Arts resource teacher. In 1994, she was awarded an Apprenticeship Grant to study Hawaiian puppetry with Nona Beamer. She spent 12 years presenting and teaching storytelling throughout the State, also with Nona Beamer. Mauli holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Dr. Jamie Simpson-Steele prepares teachers to utilize the performing arts in the classroom through her work at Hawaii Pacific University, College of Education. She holds an MA in Educational Theatre from New York University and a Ph.D. in Education, Curriculum and Instruction from UH Manoa. She is an advanced artist educator on the Artistic Teaching Partners Roster for the Artists in the Schools Program.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth and Voyager Public Charter School are members of the Partners in Education program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Selected because of their demonstrated commitment to the improvement of education in and through the arts, the partnership team participates in collaborative efforts to provide professional development opportunities in the arts for educators.