Rhode Island Art Education Association

Professional Development

Professional Development:
RIDE Credits will be available for these RIAEA sponsored Roundtables!

RI Arts GSE Alignment Training Sessions
Registration Information available here
RIDE announces a series of Technical Assistance opportunities available for your curriculum directors and teachers to align to the K-12 RI Arts Grade Span Expectations – Dance, Music, Theater and the Visual Arts and Design.

Educators will begin to develop an understanding of the Arts GSEs, Depth of Knowledge and applied learning while being introduced to the tools and processes for completing district alignment. 2 CEUs will be available.

To reserve space for your district team, please complete the registration form and return it to Janice Stavros at jstavros1@cox.net

PRESENTATION DATE/TIME	LOCATION	PRESENTERS
February 10 4-6 PM	East Bay Collaborative	Bob Arsenault Nancy Vitulli
February 24 4-6 PM	Southern Collaborative	Don Smith Beth Schenck Audrey Cardany
February 25 4-6 PM	Cranston High School West	Nancy Vitulli Tovah Muro
March 9^th 4-6 PM	West Bay Collaborative	Sue Sward Jess Hassell Beth Schenck
March 20^th	RI Music Educators In-Service RIC	Bob Arsenault Don Smith
March 22 4-6 PM	Northern RI Collaborative	Karen Elias-Clavet Sue Sward Tovah Muro

Elementary Roundtable
March 11, 2010
The next Elementary Round Table will be
at Wakefield Elementary School from 3:30 - 5:30.
Meet and greet and share lessons. 3:30 - 4:00
Presentation at 4
“How I Can Help You, How You Can Help Me: Changing Your Faculty¹s Perspective on Art Education”
and book signing by Christine Mulcahey, Ph.D. Professor Feinstein School of Education
author of recently published book
"The Story in Picture: Inquiry and Artmaking with Children"
See more information about Christine's book below!
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Middle School Roundtable
"Job Share"
Let's greet and meet fellow Middle School art teachers for a job share.
Bring your favorite lesson plan with extra copies to share along with an example if possible.
GSE's, common assessments, and goals will be discussed in a friendly atmosphere.
Refreshment will be served!
March 3, 2010
3:30-5:30 PM
Chariho Middle School
Contact Deb Engel to register
See workshops available below...
Directions to Chariho Middle School

Free to all RIAEA members, earn 2 professional development credits. Non-members $20

High School Roundtable
"Reflective writing as a means of assessment in the Art Classroom"
Cranston High School East
899 Park Ave.
Cranston, R.I. 02910
Art room 122
February 25, 2010: 3:30-5:30 pm.
If interested, please contact Kirsten Sorenson
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Instructors
Dolores Smith:
Ms. Smith is currently a literacy coach for Cranston Public School and has taught for ten years as a secondary reading teacher. She has eight years of experience in leading professional development with content area teachers relating disciplinary literacy and curriculum alignment with GSE’s.

Kirsten Sorensen:
Art Educator at Cranston High School East for fourteen years. Ten years of active experience in school reform. Served on four SALT visits and various in-house NEASC committees at East. Experience in creating and developing literacy units that pair with art lessons using vocabulary as a motivation for reflective writing in the classroom.

This professional development session will afford all RI art educators and other interested educators from across the state, the opportunity to develop a common understanding of the process of reflective writing as a means of assessment in the middle and high school classroom. The session will focus on teaching reflective writing to students, peer editing, and vocabulary development in the visual arts and various disciplines. It will address guided reflective writing through a series of prompts using content specific concepts and vocabulary in application to the real world. It will also focus on alignment and support for various ELS GSE’s by aligning writing prompts with GSE’s. Focusing on developing student discussion on vocabulary and text to a real world connection will help students apply definition to each lesson or common task, which will result in proficient reflective writing.

Based on the mission of RIAEA to support professional development for all RI art educators and to support art educators and educators in various disciplines in teaching and accessing proficient reflective writing responses from students.

What specific objectives do you expect to accomplish?
To build a professional learning community of art educators in support of improving student opportunities in reflective writing. To support and build skills in proficient reflective writing for students in visual arts classes. To demonstrate how to motivate students across all disciplines to use vocabulary and text to apply definition to learning in a real world context.

To help support the ELA GSE’s in the classroom, across all disciplines using the model taught in a visual arts classroom. Interpretation of various ELA reflective writing rubrics and using student reflective writing as a means of assessment will also be a focus.

TECH SQUAD WORKSHOP SERIES
(for all K-12 art educators)

Beginning in January, the RIAEA “Tech Squad” will begin holding a series of Hands-on, technology, educational workshops. Topics will include: Tech Basics, Computers 101, PowerPoint, Capturing Images off the Internet, Digital Photography, File Management, Picture Editing and much more.
Watch for the next workshop coming soon!

The cost is $20 for non-RIAEA members and is FREE for current members. Participants may sign up for RIAEA membership at the workshop and waive the workshop fee.
To register for this class and for more information,
contact Sue Sward at ssward@westwarwickpublicschools.com

Chariho Art Center Winter Workshop

Asian Calligraphy

Calligraphy means beautiful writing. In this workshop you will learn to use the Four Chinese Treasures of paper, ink, ink stone, and brush, to create Asian calligraphy. You will learn to hold the brush, load it with ink, and practice the eight basic strokes. Then we will practice thousand year old kanji characters composed of these basic strokes. We will choose appropriate paper for our characters, and mat our favorites. Our favorites can also be embellished with Asian stamps and red markings. When these characters are made with care, they look like beautiful works of art.

This Calligraphy workshop will be taught by Lenore Dorson. She is a recently retired art teacher and lives in Richmond. While visiting China, Korea, And Japan, Lenore became interested in Asian calligraphy. She loves the beauty and simplicity of the characters, and hopes you will, too!

Dates: February 25, 2010 & March 4, 2010

Times: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Place: Chariho High School Art Room

Class size is limited to 20 people

Please RSVP

Debbie Engel

Chariho Middle School

daeng@chariho.K12.ri.us

401-315-2191

Special Event: March is Youth Art Month

ANNOUNCING!

Youth Art Month Contest Winners!

Flag Competition Winner
Travis Frink - Grade 6 at Holden Elementary, Warwick, RI

Postcard Winner
Michela Colognese - Grade 4 at Melrose School, Jamestown, RI

Is your school/district having a Student Art Exhibits?
Register it on the YAM website!

Follow the new and improved path for registering
your YAM show on the yamri.org site.

By registering your show,
you will be counted in RI’s efforts to advocate
for school arts programs!!!

It only takes a few minutes to register!!

Please REGISTER!

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Special Event

2010 RI Scholastic Art Awards Winners Available here!

2010 Rhode Island Scholastic Art Awards
Hosted by
Salve Regina University and RIAEA

Exhibition
Sunday, January 24-
Friday, February 12
The University Gallery at Salve Regina
Antone Academic Center
Building 18
Newport, Rhode Island
Gallery Hours:
Mon. - Thurs. 11-4pm,
and Wed. 5-8
Fri. 11-1pm & Sun. 2-4pm

Questions about this exhibit , please email
Tricia Barry scholasticsri@gmail.com Or Susanne Suprock at suprocks@cox.net

2010 Educators' Exhibit

Rhode Island Art Education Association
2010 Educators’ Exhibit
March 15th-28th

Limit of two artworks per person
Drop Off: Thursday, March 11th, 3:30 - 5 PM
Judging: Friday, March 12th, 5 PM

Krause Gallery at Moses Brown
250 Llyod Ave, Providence

Gallery Hours
Monday-Friday 8am-4pm
Evenings and school holidays by appointment
Kristin S. Street, Director 401-831-7350 x 174

Closing Reception and Awards
Sunday, March 28th from 2 - 4PM
Awards presented at 3:30

Note: All work must be picked up at the end of the ceremony.
There is no charge for RIAEA members. Non-member entry fee of $20.00.

For additional details and information contact Nancy Brandley, Exhibit Chair at maulsticktoo@cox.net

ArtReach 2009-2010
Congratulations to the following winners of the 101 Dalmation ArtReach Grant! Nancy Brandley Portmouth High School Portmouth Donald Chabot Curvin-McCabe Elementary School Pawtucket Patricia Huntington Toll Gate High School Warwick Bruce Lenore Smithfield High School Smithfield Naomi Messier Greenwood School Warwick Read about each project awarded here

Publications

The Story in the Picture: Inquiry and Artmaking with Young Children
by RIAEA member Christine Mulcahey, with Foreword by Maxine Greene

Co-published with Teachers College Press, this book looks at the work of a variety of artists and demonstrates that using fine art reproductions in the early childhood curriculum allows children to construct their own meanings, teaches diversity, fosters thinking skills, and encourages storytelling. The author, a professor at Rhode Island College and a preK-5 art specialist, includes lesson ideas, examples of activities, and photographs of children working and interacting with one another and with works of art. Based on the NAEYC and NAEA standards, this educator-friendly resource provides:

• Numerous examples of open-ended arts experiences using reproductions of fine art from many different genres, periods, cultures, and sources.
• Art concepts to be used with children according to their developmental readiness.
• Easy-to-implement lesson ideas designed to encourage educators to create their own to fit in with their regular early childhood curriculum.

“This book has the capacity to have a profound impact on how art is viewed by educators by changing the art experience from one of insignificance to one that contributes greatly to the cognitive growth of the child.” —Sharon Shaffer, Executive Director, Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center

120 pgs. (2009) ISBN 0-8077-5007-7 Regular: $20.00 NAEA Members: $18.00

You may purchase this book through the NAEA Store

Congratulations Christine!