SuperSaturday Workshops
Each year AIEA presents at least four SuperSaturday sessions, designed to enhance the prior training of participants in other AIEA professional development activities. These sessions are free to teachers in AIEA schools. Previous SuperSaturday sessions have included Reader's Theatre and Literacy, Music and Science, Motion and Math, as well as individual training in each art discipline. Presenters have included nationally renowned teachers and trainers, in addition to prominent artists and performers. Also, each year, in conjunction with the Alabama Dance Council, AIEA presents a Dance SuperSaturday at the Alabama Dance Summit— presenters have included artists such as Anne Green Gilbert.

 

SuperSaturday Schedule

 

Making Simple Hand-Made Books

Carol Hull, Teaching Artist

If you can fold a piece of paper, then you can make a book. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to make several books including a book from one page, a book that unfolds like a lotus or star, an accordian book, and a simple sewn signature book. We'll explore ways of creating unique papers for use in making books, and learn how to recycle "throw-away" materials as well. These techniques are adaptable for a wide range of grade level and content applications.

Date: April 21, 2012 • 9:00-2:30 • Free (Lunch Furnished)

Location: Morton Hall, University of Alabama-Huntsville, Huntsville, AL

Download campus map here. Parking available in 4 lots around Morton Hall.

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Teaching Literacy Skills Through Readers Theatre with Carol Jones,

Alliance Theatre, Atlanta

A Readers Theatre Workshop designed to help classroom teachers discover ways to transform language arts lessons into active, student-centered explorations of story elements, writing and characterization through drama strategies such as expressive movement and character development.

Date: March 3, 2012 • 9:00-3:00 • Free (Lunch Furnished)

Location: Alabama Shakepspeare Festival, Rehearsal Hall B

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Check back soon as more SuperSaturday opportunities will be posted soon!

 

 

Dana Foundation Artists
In 2007 AIEA received one of 35 national grants from the Dana Foundation to train Teaching Artists to work in rural schools. AIEA's success with this grant led to a renewal for a second year in 2008 and again for a third in 2009. Alabama's project targets the Black Belt in support of the Alabama Black Belt Arts Education Initiative—a State Department project. AIEA has trained approximately 23 artists in various genres to conduct residencies in the Black Belt and in schools without art specialists. The artists include dancers, actors, singers, storyteller, painters, wood carvers, quilters and potters. They have received extensive training in integrated curriculum design and in effective ways to work in the classrooms to support standards in their art discipline and other content areas. The artists work with the classroom teachers in planning a residency which can vary from a day-long residency to one lasting several weeks and culminating in a production. For more information about the Dana artists, visit their website at www.dana.org or contact AIEA at 334-396-2432.

 

Art Smart: Using the Arts to Extend Classroom Learning
AIEA has developed an arts manual for the 21st Century Learning Centers. Art lessons that support content learning in the classroom are included across the 4X4 and all arts areas. All lessons are standards-based with extensions for lower or higher grades.
Available for purchase for $50 per copy

Action Research/School-Wide Creative Conversations in Arts Learning

Communities
AIEA will work with faculties to design Action Research projects around arts education topics. Staff can facilitate school-wide study groups focused on current literature relating to arts education topics and/or offer topic suggestions for this study.

 

Arts in the Classroom
AIEA will work with schools to design school-specific training and/or model lesson teaching in the classroom. These sessions can focus on one art form, one concept or one grade level. For example: With a focus on third grade math, specifically fractions and decimals, a teaching specialist in each of the art forms can spend a day in the school teaching model lessons with the staff, meeting with teachers to discuss lesson design and share extension and support lessons for the teachers to use after the training.

 

Other Possibilities
AIEA has the ability to design professional development programs to meet the specific needs of your school and your project. We have an extensive list of discipline experts and master teachers from around the southeast who are trained to help you. Please contact us!