Workshops

MOCHA's Professional Development workshops help educators learn new ways to create engaging learning environments by bringing art into the classroom. We offer a range of workshops and related servcies that can be tailored to the needs of an individual school site, an entire school district or a community organization. Workshops can be paired with coaching and/or lesson modeling to enhance the training experience.

Upcoming Workshops at MOCHA

Art for Educators

January 27, 28 & 29, 2012

This workshop is for classroom teachers, parents, youth workers, afterschool staff, teaching artists and anyone else who works or regularly interacts with children. We will review the fundamentals of visual art and provide an introduction to arts integration—using engaging, hands-on visual art lessons to enhance student learning across subject areas. Those with little or no art experience are encouraged to attend, as are experienced art teachers.

Participants will:

• Develop techniques for teaching visual art lessons that enhance students’ creative thinking, communication and individual expression
• Learn successful methods for using art to enhance student learning, with a focus on building literacy skills
• Gain an expanded toolbox of art projects for their classrooms using readily accessible and inexpensive art materials
• Begin developing documentation practices to show student learning through the visual arts
• Explore reflection techniques for talking to students about their art and the artworks of others
• Learn management techniques for handling art materials in a variety of settings
• Become comfortable with and/or enhance their own artistic expression

Cost

$300 in advance

$350 at the door

10% discount for educator members

University credit available at an additional fee

To register, email the MOCHA registrar or call 510.465.8770 x308

MOCHA charges a $20 administrative fee per cancellation. MOCHA will provide credit (no refunds) for any cancellation within two weeks of the start of the workshop and half credit (no refunds) for any cancellation within 48 hours of the start of the workshop.

Contact

Roxanne Padgett
Education Manager

510.465.8770 x304
510.465.0772 FAX

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