MAKING CREATIVE CONNECTIONS:
Engaging
the Whole Child in Learning
SCAAE Annual
Arts Integration Conference
October
4-5, 2012
Columbia,
South Carolina
Teachers today are encouraged to differentiate
instruction, and to connect to diverse learning styles and multiple
intelligences, in order to engage the whole child in learning curriculum
content. It sounds great, but in true practice, what does this type of teaching
and learning really look like?
Join us at the SCAAE’s Arts Integration
Conference and find out!
For the past ten years, the SCAAE’s annual professional
conference has provided educators with an opportunity to learn how the arts
effectively engage students in exploring curriculum, as well as providing ways
for students to communicate understanding through writing, speaking, visuals,
movement and more. This year’s conference will contain sessions that directly
address engaging the whole child in learning in deeper, more authentic ways.
Additional sessions will focus on a
continuation of last year’s topic, Powering STEM with STEAM, working with GT
and Special Education, and more. If you are a teacher, administrator or artist,
looking for authentic ways to teach and assess through proven arts-based
strategies, join the SCAAE next fall.
Interested in presenting, fill out a 2012 SCAAE Conference RFP and return it to either Eve Walling-Wohlford (ewohlfor@lander.edu) or David Platts (dtplatts@gmail.com)
Keynote Speaker: Jim Brazell 21st Century Strategies for Arts Education and
Advocacy - Discover the 21st century imperative...that innovation is a
function of connecting the "arts way of learning" to science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Futurist and creativity
specialist Jim Brazell delivers stories, anecdotes and analysis of the US and
global movement to connect STEM+ARTS. Learn about emerging technologies, jobs,
schools and communities integrating the arts to define what is next in the
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Thursday, Sept. 22: 8:00-9:00am Breakfast 9:00-9:45am SCAAE Annual Business Meeting 9:45am-noon Breakout sessions I and II Noon-1pm Lunch 1:00-4:30pm Breakout sessions III, IV and V 5:30-8:30pm Reception and Keynote Dinner Friday, Sept. 23: 8:00-9:00am Breakfast and State Reports 9:15-11:30am Breakout sessions VI and VII 11:30-1:15 Lunch and STEM Panel 1:15-2:15 Breakout session VIII |
As always, this
conference will include a wide variety of breakout sessions, to help all
participants to meet their individual needs and interests. Here's just a
handful of the sessions being offered this year:
- Beth Radford / Focus 5, Inc.:
Acting Right: Drama as a Classroom Management Strategy
- Frank Baker, Media Literacy Clearinghouse
Deconstructing Photographs: A Visual Literacy Workshop
- Libby Higgins, SC Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities
Integrating Math, Science and the Arts through Donald in Mathmagic Land
- John Lemmon, Filmaker
The Art of Stop Motion Animation
- Heather Magruder, Education Director, Metropolitan Arts Council (Greenville)
Beyond the Bulletin Board: Discovering Your Most Powerful Documentation Story
- Larry Barnfield, Fine Arts Director, Dorchester 2
Paper Engineering
- Martha Burdette, Southeast Center for Arts Integration
Quilts and Windows: Integrating Mathematics and Visual Art
- Margaret Rushton, Fine Arts Coordinator, Beaufort County
A River of Words: Integrating Science, ELA and Art
- Laura Courter, Stage Works Theater
Climbing the Story Mountain Download the complete conference schedule here. |