Maine Art Education Association, Saturday, April 6, Lord Hall, UMaine campus
Registration is now available at https://sites.google.com/site/maeaspringconference/
or you can get to registration through the MAEA website at
http://www.mainearted.org/MAEA/2013_Spring_Conference.html
Registration deadline: Monday, March 25, .8CEUs available for full participation in conference
The Art Studio in your MLTI MacBook
Opportunities from the Maine Learning Technology Initiative that are being provided over the next three months throughout Maine at no cost.
Join MLTI to discover the art studio in your MLTI MacBook. Learn new ways to create art, explore tools to design digital portfolios, gain understanding in managing your digital art classroom and grow your research process knowledge. This day will be filled with valuable information for the art teacher. This is a repeat of the Fall 2012 session but we encourage you to join us and expand your abilities.
Please visit http://www.maine.gov/mlti/events for a link to online registration and a listing of all current PD sessions.
Dates/Locations:
January 28, 2013: Maranacook PD Center
January 30, 2013: Washington Academy
February 5, 2013: RSU #40 Central Office (Union)
February 12, 2013: Apple Training Facility, Pineland Campus (New Gloucester)
February 14, 2013: Eric L Knowlton School
February 26, 2013: Reeds Brook Middle School
February 28, 2013: Spruce Mountain Middle School
March 6, 2013: Katahdin High School
March 12, 2013: Portland Arts & Technology HS
March 13, 2013: Presque Isle High School
March 20: Woodland Jr Sr High School
Maine Art Education Association
Heads Above Awards Program
Recognizing Teaching Excellence in the great State of Maine
Please join us in celebrating and sharing great work and great educators.
Designed to reveal and honor excellence in MAINE art education,
Division Awards: Higher Education Student, Museum, Retired, Supervision and
Administration, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Higher Education and The Maine Art Educator of the Year.
Please reflect on the image in the poster.
Imagine yourself the head at the top.
Who are the educator professionals supporting you?
The influences of your practice and career?
Honor them today with a request for nomination.
Thank them for helping you to be
HEADS ABOVE.
Celebration will include honoring our most recent National Board Certified colleagues and will occur at a pre-conference event on Friday, April 5th.
APPLICATION DEADLINE – FEBRUARY 1, 2013!
MaineArtEd.org or Suzanne Goulet (sgoulet@aos92.org) for more info
Converge at Brunswick High School
Photo by Lori Spruce
On Saturday 15 visual art educators, who also teach the AP Studio art course at their respective high schools, gathered at Brunswick High School to network. The teachers were welcomed by the Brunswick High School teachers Jennie Driscoll and Allison Price. Everyone was glad to see the beautiful art rooms and display cases which included outstanding student artwork.
Kal Elmore and Sheila Bohlin planned a morning filled with the opportunity to share on a variety of topics. Some teachers are new this year to the AP process so they brought their questions and the veterans shared their wisdom. Some of the topics that were discussed included: grading, challenging students, risk-taking, motivating students, dealing with different ability levels, scoring, helping students get ideas, and skill building vs the creative process.
Kal shared the Maine AP blog and the new teachers were invited to join. They also looked at the AP College Board site as well as the AP discussion board. The AP college board site includes scoring statistics and an overview that is useful. The teachers shared many ideas.
Some teachers brought student art work to share and practiced scoring a set of figure drawings. Along with the ideas shared, some brought books and other resources as well.
The opportunity was interesting, informative, and participants agreed that is was a worthwhile discussion on all fronts! Afterwards the group visited the beautiful Bowdoin Art Museum – William Wegman exhibit!
Featuring one teacher’s journey as an arts educator
This is the eighth in a series of blog posts telling arts teachers’ stories. This series contains a set of questions to provide the opportunity for you to read educators stories and to learn from others.
Shannon Campbell presently teaches visual arts to 215 K-8 students at the Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary School. This is her first year there were she has 24 classes a week. Previously, Shannon taught on the island of Vinalhaven for 2 years. Shannon is a teacher leader from the first phase of the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative.
Shannon has resources on the school website at http://www.dises.org/arts/art-class.
What do you like best about being an art educator?
I love the process of art, and I love being able to teach kids how to use the process of art to understand and interact with life. I love that no minute of my day is ever the same, and that I get to share art experiences with students every day.
Tell me what you think are three keys to ANY successful arts ed program?
What specific way(s) do your assessment practices tie into the success of your program?
My assessment practices help students to understand the project expectations and push students to self-assess their own work, allowing students to be more thoughtfully engaged in their work.
What have been the benefits in becoming involved in the arts assessment initiative?
Networking! This process has introduced me to a great support system of other art teachers who are constantly pushing what they do in the classroom in innovative ways. I love how technology has allowed a group of educators throughout the state to all stay in touch throughout the year. The assessment initiative has given be great ideas and support in what I do in my classroom, and has made me more mindful of the assessment process.
What are you most proud of in your career?
So far, I am most proud of the professional work that I have done through the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative.
What gets in the way of being a better teacher or doing a better job as a teacher?
Life–I still don’t understand how people teach kids and have their own kids!
Apple or PC?
Apple
What have you accomplished through hard work and determination that might otherwise appear at first glance to be due to “luck” or circumstances?
Hmm.. I would say that I have my job because of hard work and determination. In this economy teaching jobs are hard to come by, and I think that because of how seriously I take my job as a teacher, I have earned a good reputation in the field. I think that hard work is how I was able to get my current job at the Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary school.
Look into your crystal ball: what advice would you give to teachers?
Be innovative and keep pushing your program to become better interconnected with the outside world. Also, don’t over analyze a bad day, we all have them.
If you were given a $500,000.00 to do with whatever you please, what would it be?
Go on a vacation, get 3 more weimaraners and maybe open up my own arts based Montessori school.
Thank you Shannon for taking the time to tell your story!
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