SUMMER INSTITUTE
FROM SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011 (2012 Information Coming Soon!)
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“TEACHING OUT OF THE BOX” Educational Summer Institute
A dynamic and creative experience for Teachers in a scenic, retreat-like atmosphere. We have two days of wonderful workshops planned for you! We hope that you will be able join us for this informative and fun event.
JULY 27 & 28, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
At The Hunterdon Learning Center, 37 Hoffmann Crossing’s Road, in beautiful, scenic Califon, NJ
TOOTB Summer Institute Registration form 2011
We are offering you an exciting, two-day hands-on retreat just for teachers, in a beautiful setting in Central New Jersey, where you will learn simple ways to integrate creative activities into your classrooms, curriculum and literacy instruction that will stimulate and motivate student learning. Come and participate in dynamic workshops that use recycled and “upcycled” materials. Learn how to be creative on a shoestring budget and how to promote literacy through the exciting practice of “Art Journaling.” Abandon your fears of drawing, painting and creative writing and experience our belief that Creativity Is A State of Mind. Find out how you can integrate the arts, poetry, technology and nature-based learning into your K-5 classroom. Come and make new friends, join professional artists, writers and educators for this informative, inspiring and spirit building event and leave with a box full of ideas to enhance your teachings!
Professional Development hours will be provided.
The Bottom Line:
Registration will be limited.
The cost for the two-day event is $275.00 and this includes lunch both days!
PLUS, a “Swag Box” of free stuff!
Payment due at time of registration. We will be accepting registration until we reach our maximum – email us to see if there is still room!
A BAKER’S DOZEN REASONS TO ATTEND:
- We’ll show you budget-friendly recycled and “upcycled” projects.
- You’ll learn strategies to encourage and motivate the most reluctant writers.
- There will be art techniques for everyone, especially NON-artist teachers!
- You will get strategies and best practices that will have an immediate impact on your approach to teaching and your classroom.
- It’s TWO high-energy days packed with non-stop, hands-on learning!
- We have 5-minute activities to enhance any curriculum.
- There will be strategies for both new and experienced teachers.
- You’ll see how you can engage your students by integrating creative technology practices into the curriculum.
- We’ll show you nature-inspired writing and art activities straight from the No Child Left Indoors movement.
- You’ll learn how to play games that meet standards and motivate students to write.
- You will experience creativity to broaden your experience as a teacher and deepen your understanding of learning.
- It will be really fun and if you can only attend one professional development this year, this should be it!
- F.O.M.S. (Fear Of Missing Something!)
FEATURED INSTRUCTORS:
Brod Bagert is the award winning author of 17 books of his own poetry: 10 for children, 2 for young adults, and 5 for adults. His poems are written for oral performance and cover a broad emotional spectrum ranging from outrageous humor to somber contemplation.
Voice is the heart of Brod’s work. His poems tends to be written in the voice of the audience for whom each poem is intended. Thus a poem for kindergartners will be in the voice of a kindergartner; a poem for teachers will be in the voice of a teacher. This is why he is billed as “One poet, a chorus of voices.” Brod will be traveling from his home in New Orleans to be with us!
Carla Sonheim is a painter, illustrator, and creativity workshop instructor from Seattle who is nationally known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. She is the author of the terrific book, Drawing Lab and has presented her inspiring workshops all over the country, including Art & Soul, Art Unraveled and Etsy Studios in NYC. Her inspirational blog, The Snowball Journals, includes tons of information on her life, work and her well known online course, “The Art of Silliness.”
Doris Ettlinger is an illustrator and teacher. Ettlinger was born on Staten Island and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and has been illustrating professionally for the last 20 years with over 30 titles in her name. Today she lives, draws, and teaches in an old grist mill on the banks of the Musconetcong River in Warren County, New Jersey. She tells her art students that drawing every day improves her skills, just as practicing an instrument improves a musician’s skills or working out improves an athlete’s performance. The more she works, the easier it becomes to draw the scenes she sees in her mind.
Dar Hosta is an award winning children’s book author, illustrator and educatorwho is known for her picture books, her presentations on creativity at national educational conferences, and her programs and residencies with elementary schools throughout the country. She is an annual presenter at the American Horticultural Society’s Children & Youth Garden Symposium and a member of the Growing Good Kids Book Award Panel. Dar has published over 40 books written and illustrated by children and teachers, and these books can be seen at Blurb. She received a BA in creative writing from the University of Missouri, a language arts education certification from Cleveland State University and has been working with children and adults in education since 1992.
Deb Barends has been teaching in the primary grades for 35 years. In addition to providing fine arts enrichment activities in her own classroom, Deb loves children’s literature and teaching writing to children. She has been a curriculum writer and has presented numerous workshops in language arts, creative arts and Math Their Way both locally and nationally. She believes that interweaving art and music enhances students learning in all areas of the curriculum. She is currently teaching art and enrichment at Whitehouse Preparatory School.
REGISTRATION FORM: TOOTB Summer Institute Registration form 2011
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