Integrating the Arts into Teaching: Professional Development for Classroom Teachers
Professional Development classes on the fine arts and arts integration are offered several times a year for classroom teachers. State of Hawaiʻi Department of Education (DOE) teachers can sign up to receive Professional Development and Educational Research Institute (PDERI) credit for these classes. The goal is to help teachers gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence necessary to teach standards-based fine arts in their own classrooms. The classes are coordinated by the Honolulu Theatre for Youth with funding from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts through appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawaiʻi and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Dramatic Expression: Building Literacy Skills Creatively
How do creative learning experiences help increase student engagement, comprehension, and communication skills? Including simple drama strategies into classroom lessons not only makes learning a collaboratively enjoyable process, but also offers students practical ways to enhance literary skills and tangibly demonstrate growing comprehension. In addition, drama strategies provide educators unique and creative ways to assess student learning.
- Dates: Saturdays January 14, February 4, and March 4, 2023
- Location: Hawaiʻi News Now building (Honolulu, Oʻahu)
- Cost: $150
- Registration: Department of Education (DOE) teachers, please register through your PDE3 login. Non-DOE teachers, please contact Tamara Smith at [email protected].
- Taught by Clara Whippy and Lily Crumpton
- Additional information: Oahu PD Course Spring 2023 Flyer (PDF)
Visual Perspective in Art: Learning to Observe and Create Artwork of Nature with Oil Pastels
Educators will learn to guide students in creating oil pastels about nature based on observations of Hawaiʻi landscapes, incorporating art concepts such as perspective.
- Dates: Saturdays January 28, February 18, and March 25, 2023
- Location: Donkey Mill Art Center (Holualoa, Hawaiʻi Island)
- Cost: $175
- Registration: Department of Education (DOE) teachers, please register through your PDE3 login. Non-DOE teachers, please contact Tamara Smith at [email protected].
- Taught by Gerald Lucena
- Additional information: Holualoa PD Course Spring 2023 Flyer (PDF)
Roll’in Stories: Print-making with a Handmade Art Machine
How does the process of designing and printing original images and symbols enrich student learning? The ART Machine is a simple, hand-held roller that enables educators and students to create unique designs and symbols which convey ideas and stories. Students will roll their way to engaging artworks that deepen understanding of artistic expression and connection of classroom subjects through symbolic representation. Sharing information is critical in communicating ideas, be it through words, mathematical formulas, symbols or artistic mark making. In this collaborative hands-on artmaking experience, participants will explore the intersection where engineering, visual storytelling and art meet. Educators will learn to guide students to create self-designed symbols through basic printmaking skills and making printing plates to tell meaning-filled stories that can be connected with a range of subjects.
- Dates: Saturdays January 21, February 11, and March 11, 2023
- Location: Kauaʻi Community College
- Cost: $175
- Registration: Department of Education (DOE) teachers, please register through your PDE3 login. Non-DOE teachers, please contact Tamara Smith at [email protected].
- Taught by Jill Weiner
- Additional information: Lihue PD Course Spring 2023 Flyer (PDF)