For Artists
Professional Development
For information on the Professional Development Grant click on this link.
Sharing Your Artform: Tools for Artists
with Eric Johnson
The workshop was recently offered in Billings on October 21, 2006.
Quotes from artists who took Johnson's workshop last year:
"Using Eric's Rubric as guideline has lent discipline and focus to my lesson plan and teaching. It has taken me to a new level of teaching at a time I thought I had reached a plateau and couldn't do it any better. Thank you for the great workshop." Marina Weatherly
"Thank you for the opportunity to participate in Eric Johnson's 'Sharing your Artform' workshop. I can't tell you how helpful and effective his expertise has been. Since taking his workshop I have utilized his tools several times in my classrooms. The effects have been astronomical." Marlene Schumann
This is how Johnson described his workshop:
Teaching the arts to young people is exciting, gratifying, and sometimes exhausting. Since the instruction you share with students affects them in their lives far beyond the classroom please join Seattle dance educator Eric Johnson for a workshop in which we'll look at how to make teaching as inspiring, effective and engaging as possible.
The current climate of education in America is changing dramatically. Where artists previously were paid to just come and perform their art form, now artists are truly expected to become educators. Schools like to pay artists who know the language of education and know how to be effective instructors. Sharing your Artform: Tools for Artists is an opportunity to experience a non-threatening, fun day of learning how to retool the way you teach the arts, slightly, to make it more effective for students and more meaningful to the school environment that you work in. During our day together we will be looking at:
- how to organize lessons,
- how to most effectively share the information you care about with students,
- ways to check learning to see if what you've offered is understood by all your students, and
- how to minimize or hopefully even eradicate non-productive behaviors in the classroom.
Eric Johnson is a dance specialist who teaches 530 children in 28 classes weekly in 12 Seattle public and private schools. Also a mentor teacher for the Pierce County Arts Impact project (a recent recipient of a major educational research grant from the US Department of Education) mentoring 8 teachers yearly on the use of dance in their classrooms. Eric travels regularly to Japan to lead workshops for teachers from throughout Japan for Japan Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and Department of Defense Dependent Schools, and is a national workshop leader for the Kennedy Center in Washington, traveling regularly to school districts throughout the United States.
You can download a copy of the workshop handout below.
- Sharing Your ArtForm handout as a Word document © 2006 Eric Johnson
Or you can request a copy by calling the Arts Education Hotline at 1-800-282-3092.
