It’s Your Turn Marin County!
The Integrated Learning Specialist Program Has Arrived!
The Integrated Learning Specialist Program offers educators of all levels the opportunity to grow professionally and deepen contemporary education strategies through content that supports Common Core. It furthers understanding of equity and social justice building a strong base for the future of teaching and learning in California.
“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous!” – Bill Moyers
Course A: Strategies and Resources for Arts Integration
This hands-on course focuses on contemporary education and arts centered teaching and learning using frameworks developed at Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. This course aims to foster art and creativity for education professionals. Students will explore a range of art practices and creative strategies that will enrich the learning environment for both the teacher and student. Students will become familiar with frameworks that include Studio Habits of Mind, Teaching For Understanding and Making Learning Visible, learning how they can be used to develop a creative teaching practice that builds metacognition.
Dates: Saturdays, March 28, April 4, April 25, May 9 | 9:00am-5pm
Location: Marin County Office of Education, 1111 Las Gallinas Avenue, San Rafael, CA
Instructor: Marilyn Zoller-Koral and Rica Anderson
For more information and to register: http://conta.cc/1wvhXtR
Course B: Coming soon, too be announced for a Summer 2015 schedule
Course B: Ongoing Assessment Strategies and Applications: Making Learning Visible, Studio Habits of Mind, Rubrics and Portfolios
Participants
learning ongoing assessment strategies, including Studio Habits of
Mind, Making Learning Visible and documentation, rubrics and portfolios.
They develop protocols, tools and applications that are useful for
evaluating and deepening their own learning and their students'
learning. Participants also choose an area of assessment to complete an
action research project, and come together to share work at the end of
the semester.
Course C coming this Fall: Collaborative Curriculum DesignParticipants develop arts integrated curriculum using the Teaching for Understanding framework and receive feedback from the collective group. Participants learn how to use a variety of protocols and tools for evaluating and deepening classroom practice; they also consider points of inquiry, thinking deeply about their own contexts and present their final unit to the group.
Collaborative teams are welcome and encouraged.
