Arts Workshop
On Tuesday Catherine Ring and I presented a session at the Positive Youth Development Institute at UMaine. I really enjoy this conference because it brings together people from many walks of life. All people who are invested in educating young people. There were traditional school personel including administrators and teachers and educators from community programs and organizations. I saw many educators from the extension/4H programs. I was reminded that “it takes a village” to raise children and it isn’t often that we have the variety of people involved in eduacting young people in one location.
The keynote for Tuesday morning was Tony Wagner whose book “The Global Achievement Gap” is a must read, in my opinion. His Seven Survival Sckills for Teens Today include:
- Critical Thinming and Problem-Solving
- Collaboration across Networks and Leading by Influence
- Agility and Adaptability
- Initiave and Entrepreneurialism
- Effective Oral and Written Communication
- Accessing and Analyzing Information
- Curiosity and Imagination
As you know many of these skills can be learned through an arts experience and that arts educators tap directly into these topics.
If you’d like to learn more take an hour and watch this YouTube of Tony Wagner speaking on the topic. Tony is the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard.
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