6-week online course for K-12 Arts educators beginning on January 20, 2025
This is an intensive 6-week online course for those looking to learn to create engaging units and lesson plans that feature active arts learning and use skills as the foundation for transferrable understandings - helping students take their arts learning into their lives and into the world.
Frustrated with the lack of availability of Concept-Based professional development?
Feeling like you’ve wasted lifetimes sitting through planning meetings that do not apply to arts education?
Feeling alone or out on a limb as one of the only arts educators you know?
In a curriculum leadership position but need help with how to guide the professional development of your specialized arts team?
Struggling to write arts units that actually mean something?
Struggling to plan a unit at all?
Discovering Concept-Based Arts Instruction is a comprehensive, step-by-step course designed by an arts educator FOR arts educators and arts-supportive curriculum leaders.
This course provides helpful frameworks and numerous arts-based examples and offers specific and accessible application ideas to help you create Concept-Based, inquiry-driven learning in your arts classroom.
You’ll work on developing your first Concept-Based Arts unit and lesson and have an opportunity to troubleshoot and refine these with a private coaching session with Nyssa to receive feedback on the lesson you create.
Five self-paced video modules that set the groundwork for Concept-Based Arts Instruction guiding you through the lesson design process, and demonstrating lesson design in action.
Weekly group support calls with Nyssa and fellow course participants - offered at two different times to accommodate time zones. You'll even have the opportunity to observe a lesson plan from start to finish.
You will receive your own Digital Resource Bank (templates, arts-specific content, and examples) to keep.
You’ll work on developing your first Concept-Based Arts unit and lesson and have an opportunity to troubleshoot and refine these with a private coaching session with Nyssa to receive feedback on the lesson you create.
Five self-paced video modules that set the groundwork for Concept-Based Arts Instruction guiding you through the lesson design process, and demonstrating lesson design in action.
Weekly group support calls with Nyssa and fellow course participants - offered at two different times to accommodate time zones. You'll even have the opportunity to observe a lesson plan from start to finish.
You will receive your own Digital Resource Bank (templates, arts-specific content, and examples) to keep.
How a Concept-Based Inquiry approach enhances and strengthens teaching and learning in the arts.
The step-by-step process of creating Concept-Based units of study in arts classrooms.
A framework for considering when units of study should be interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary.
How self-reflection and artist statements can be used as tools for demonstrating understanding and assessment.
The cost of the 6-week course and 1-1 coaching is €650.
Groups of five or more participants from the same school can register each participant for €600.
"The hybrid nature of the course; being self-paced, and then coming together in real-time once a week, helped to keep me up to date and clarify any questions I had from the videos. I really liked the fact that it was customized for Arts teachers and focused on the Structure of Process."
You'll learn to create transferrable, conceptual understandings that guide arts teaching and learning.
You will discover how to scaffold inquiry through guiding questions and the Concept-Based Inquiry Cycle.
You will create backward-designed units that align big-picture learning, assessments, and day-to-day classroom experiences.
Gain greater confidence in working with concepts and leading your students to construct their own conceptual understandings.
This custom-designed course will build from the ground up, so no prior knowledge of Concept-Based is required.
(Still have questions? Email us at admin@prolearnint.com)
If you are ready to make literacy learning more dynamic and holistic, leverage student agency and meaning-making, and guide your students to develop transferable conceptual understanding that they will value for years to come… enroll now.
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