Introducing a new series of arts workshops for the Spring 2013 Semester.
The Early Childhood Education department invites you to join us for a series of workshops exploring the use of arts and technology in the classroom setting. Four separate workshops have been scheduled for the spring semester. Below you will find the spring schedule and links to register. Space is limited. Please, register early.
Art and Language
with Dori Jacobsohn
February 2nd
10am-3pm
How do we look at art with young children? Learn developmentally appropriate strategies for choosing, looking closely, and responding to art images through discussion, writing and art making. Experience VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies), a facilitation method for meaningful discussions that promotes visual literacy, critical thinking, language, and communication skills across the curriculum. The VTS approach reaches all students, from those at multiple developmental levels and English language learners to high achievers. Participants will explore ways to integrate visual art and skills for inquiry based-learning across curriculums. After the morning introduction to this open-ended discussion method, we'll explore parallel processes when we respond to art images by creating our own visual books using authentic art making and writing techniques.
Dori Jacobsohn is an educator and artist. She is an alumni of Sarah Lawrence College where she studied drawing and printmaking and has an M.Ed from the Erikson Institute. Her educator experience covers diverse audiences and settings, including classroom teaching, coordinating early childhood programs at the Museum of Science and Industry, managing studio and family programs at the Terra Museum of American Art, presenting teacher workshops, and college teaching, including Columbia College Chicago where she was a lecturer and conceived and implemented the Arts in Early Childhood Workshops in the Early Childhood Education program. She currently is adjunct faculty at Columbia College Chicago and Truman City College. She is a Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) trainer and is presently working on a project with Wayne State University to implement VTS into the early childhood centers to enhance teacher/child interactions across the curriculum. Her prints were exhibited locally and in national print competitions and her creative talents have been seen in public exhibitions such as, "Cows on Parade", and the 57th Street Children's Bookfair.
Core Standards Addressed:
Speaking and Listening Standard -(K-5th Grade) Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
Reading Standard for Literature (K-5th Grade) Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting.)
Craft and Structure
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language, such as metaphors and similes.)
Fine Arts Standard State Goal 26
Through creating and performing, understand how works of art are produced.
Illinois Learning Standards: 25, 26, 27, 3, 4
Illinois Early Learning Standards for 3 and 4 year olds: 25, 26, 3, 4, 5, 31, 32
Registration Ends 1/26/13
Printmaking in the Classroom
with Dori Jacobsohn
March 2nd
10am-3pm
What can you do with prints? Printmaking is filled with surprises that inspire the imagination and the process of making a printing can be used to develop visualization and problem solving skills across the curriculum. Participants will learn developmentally appropriate strategies to bring the exciting vocabulary of printmaking to their classroom: from making a plan, to creating and inking a plate, to printing an edition. Simple materials will be used to learn basic techniques for making the collagraph or collage print and styrofoam relief print. From there, participants will have the opportunity to explore ways to incorporate prints into group murals, accordian books, and writing activities integrated across the curriculum.
Dori Jacobsohn is an educator and artist. Sheis an alumni of Sarah Lawrence College where she studied drawing andprintmaking and has an M.Ed from the Erikson Institute. Her educator experience covers diverseaudiences and settings, including classroom teaching, coordinating earlychildhood programs at the Museum of Science and Industry, managing studio andfamily programs at the Terra Museum of American Art, leading teacher workshops,and college teaching. At Columbia College Chicago she was a lecturer, andconceived and implemented the Arts in Early Childhood Workshops in the EarlyChildhood Education program. Shecurrently is adjunct faculty at Columbia College Chicago and Truman CityCollege where she teaches Creative Arts Activities for Children. She is a Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)trainer and is presently working on a project with Wayne State University toimplement VTS into their early childhood centers to enhance teacher/childinteractions across the curriculum. Herprints were exhibited locally and in national print competitions and hercreative talents have been seen in public exhibitions such as, "Cows onParade", and the 57th Street Children's Bookfair.
Core Standards Addressed:
Speaking and Listening Standard -(K-5th Grade) Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Tell a story or recount an experience withappropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly incoherent sentences.
Reading Standard for Literature (K-5th Grade) Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g.,create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting.)
Craft and Structure
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,including figurative language, such as metaphors and similes.)
Fine Arts Standard State Goal 26
Through creating and performing, understand how works of art areproduced.
Illinois Learning Standards: 25, 26, 27, 3, 4
Illinois Early Learning Standards for 3 and4 year olds: 25, 26,3, 4, 5, 31, 32
Registration Ends 2/23/13
with Angela Fowler & Hannah Clemmons
April 13th
10am-1pm
This workshop will demonstrate developmentally appropriate ways to use an iPad in an early childhood classroom. Basic functionality and applications (apps) will be explored. It will emphasize hands-on activities and focus on creativity, educational gaming, teacher tools, and communication using iPads. You do not need to bring your own iPad to participate in this workshop.
Angela Fowler Angela Fowler is a Lecturer in the Education Department at Columbia College Chicago. She is the co-creator of childFolio, an authentic assessment application being released by Experience Early Learning. The assessment system for iPads allows educators to instantly connect different forms of authentic assessment with formalized standards and benchmarks. Ms. Fowler is also the author of a book on authentic assessment, scheduled for release in 2013.
Hannah Clemmons is an Educational Technology Specialist. She works as a consultant to educational companies and is currently working with Launchpad Toys creators of Toontastic, one of the most popular apps for children. She has written articles about technology and promotes and develops educational applications.
Registration Ends 4/6/13
Brain Dance
with Dardi McGinley Galivan
May 4th
10am-12pm
Developed by Anne Green Gilbert, the Brain Dance is a series of exercises that we use in all CDC classes. It is comprised of eight developmental movement patterns that healthy human beings naturally move through in the first year of life. As babies, we did these movements on our tummies and back on the floor. However, cycling through these patterns at any age, daily or weekly while sitting or standing, has been found to be beneficial in reorganizing our central nervous system. Repeating these patterns over time may help us fill in any missing gaps in our neurological system due to birth trauma, illness, environment, head injury or not enough tummy time as a baby.
http://creativedance.org/about/braindance/
Dardi McGinley Gallivan received a BA in Art History from
Emory University and an MA in Dance from The Ohio State University. She has
been on the faculty at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago since 1993
when she also joined Mordine and Company Dance Theatre. In 1996 she received a
Ruth Page Dance Achievement Award for her performance in Mordine’s Edge Mode. Dardi is also a founding
member of Mad Shak Dance Company and has performed many times for the Colleen
Halloran Performance Group. Dardi has had the pleasure of teaching company
classes for The Dance COLEctive, Mordine & Company Dance Theatre, Thodos
Dance Company, River North, Luna Negra, and Giordano. She has taught
residencies at the invitation of Antares
Danza Contemporeanea in Hermosillio, Mexico and recently taught at the
International Dance Festival in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. In addition to
teaching Modern technique classes, Dardi also currently teaches Dance Pedagogy.
Dardi has also taught several lecture classes at the Dance Center of Columbia
College and has worked as a teacher with community outreach and arts
integration.
Registration Ends 4/27/13
3hr workshops $50
5hr workshops $75
Columbia College Chicago students may register for FREE. All workshops take place at 33 E. Congress Parkway unless noted otherwise. For information about student discounts or with any other questions, please e-mail Yolunda Kincade at ykincade@colum.edu or call 312.369.7990
