SPRING 2008 COURSES
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The Youngest Scientists: Hands-on Adventures (Ages 3 - 8 Years) TEED531N
Bring out the inner scientist in your students and yourself with this course, which includes a wide range of easy-to-do scientific experiments and activities. Using familiar, easily obtainable materials and simple hands-on exercises that illustrate scientific principles, you can learn to make science both accessible and intriguing to children of any age. Some areas covered include: using your senses as scientific tools, science in the air, approaching art and cooking as science, studying living things, and additional adventures in chemistry, physics, electricity, and magnets.
Mary Stetten Carson is the author of The Scientific Kid: Projects, Experiments and Adventures (HarperCollins, 1998) and Let's Play Science (Sterling Publishing, 2007). She has been a science teacher for over 20 years and currently teaches at the West Side YMCA in NYC.
May 9 and 10
Friday, 5:15 - 9 pm
Saturday, 9:30 am - 5 pm
1 CEU $395 / 1 credit $ 1010
Materials fee $15
Registration Deadline: 5/2
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Art for Children with Special Needs (Grades Pre-K - 8) SPED521N
Art is a powerful means of communication for the special needs child. Participants in this course will learn how to develop an engaging arts curriculum based on theoretical goals. We will look at examples of children's work and participate in a series of hands-on activities to highlight techniques and themes of meaning. We will also provide suggestions on how to implement art programs in participants' own settings. Special attention will be given to time and space limitations, material and budget constraints, and developmentally appropriate activities.
Professional artist, Pearl Rosen Golden, is currently a consult for schools and museums in developing art programs for children with special needs. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at Queens College, CUNY. Previously she was the Arts and Culture Coordinator for the National Center for Disability Services in Albertson, NY., and Director of the Long Term and New Initiative Programs for Studio in a School in Manhattan. In addition, she was the Special Education Coordinator at the Queens Museum of Art for 13 years.
July 28, 29, 30 and 31
Monday through Thursday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
2 CEU $790 / 2 credits $2120 / 3 credits $2180
Materials fee $25
Registration Deadline 7/21
Bookmaking in the Classroom (Grades K - 12) TEED576N
This workshop is an introduction to the principles, tools, and materials of bookbinding. Students will begin by making several types of decorative paper. They will then use this paper to construct a variety of books appropriate for classroom use. These include traditional bindings, accordion-fold books, Japanese side-sewn books, and a few whimsical, non-traditional books. Students will discuss the usefulness and age-appropriateness of different types of books, as well as how to overcome limitations such as materials and budget constraints. Learning how to integrate bookmaking projects into the classroom curriculum is a major focus of this course.
Susan Seitner taught at The Dalton School, where making different kinds of books was an important part of her first grade classroom. As the school librarian, she brings bookmaking experiences to teachers through faculty workshops and to children through after school classes and special projects.
July 28, 29, 30 and 31
Monday through Thursday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
2 CEU $790 / 2 credits $2120 / 3 credits $2180
Materials fee $25
Registration Deadline 7/21
Experiments in Art: The Artistic Process ARTS500N*
Using different materials, participants will experiment with process, color, pattern, composition, texture and light to create books, paintings and photographs. Day One will use landscapes/mindscapes as inspiration for work in pastels and acrylic. Day Two will be spent in a bookmaking workshop. Day Three we will experiment with the camera obscura and take pictures with a camera you construct. The Final day we will bring all elements together, reflect on your creative process, and help structure your final assignment.
Professional artist, Pearl Rosen Golden, is a painter and printmaker who concentrates on the landscape. She has had numerous one woman shows in New York. She is currently an adjunct lecturer in art education at Queens College, CUNY, and teaches Art for Children with Special Needs in the New Perspective program. She is also currently a consultant for schools and museums in developing art programs for children with special needs.
Photographer Ig Mata has been working with the camera obscura and the pinhole camera since 1988. She has taught Pinhole and the Basics of Photography at the Museum of Natural History and the Bank Street School for Children. Mata has had exhibits in New York State and cities throughout Brazil.
Susan Seitner taught at The Dalton School, where making different kinds of books was an important part of her first grade classroom. As the school librarian, she brought bookmaking experiences to teachers through faculty workshops and to children through after school classes and special projects.
August 4, 5, 6, and 7
Monday through Thursday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
2 CEU $790 / 2 credits $2120
Materials fee $50
Registration Deadline 7/28
*fulfils requirements for a studio art course. This course does not fulfil requirements for teacher education or arts education.
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Patchwork Quilt-Making: A Practical Art that Provides Opportunities to Explore Historical, Cultural, and Ethnic Roots (Grades 1 - 6) TEED599N
Learn how to make a patchwork quilt as you examine the lives and roles of women in American history. Through discussions, presentations, and hands-on experiences, participants will learn how to integrate quilt-making into their social studies, language arts, and math curricula. We will also appraise quilting from a multicultural aspect as we discuss and look at Amish, African-American, and Native American quilts. Since quilting was often a social activity, participants will be involved in a cooperative learning experience that translates well into the elementary classroom.
Edna Johnson, a teacher at the Bank Street School for Children for many years, is currently Assistant Principal at PS 59 in the Bronx.
July 30 and 31
Wednesday and Thursday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
1 CEU $395/ 1 credit $1060
Materials fee $15
Registration Deadline 7/23
Plant-based Learning: Gardening Projects in the Classroom (Grades Pre-K - 4) TEED649N
This workshop is designed to give teachers the basis for creating a standards-based, interdisciplinary gardening curriculum. Starting with the basics of how plants are built, how they grow, and how they reproduce, we will also suggest how best to care for them in a classroom environment. We will share lessons and activities that support science, math, social studies, and language and visual arts. Children's books and curriculum resources that extend teaching and learning about plants will be on display; bibliographies and webliographies will be among the printed material resources provided. To start the classroom garden off, each student will plant a variety of plants to take back to school.
Jill Weiss is an environmental education consultant who serves urban schools, not-for-profits, and institutions in New York City. Lately her time is split between teaching graduate and under-graduate students and writing curriculum for several organizations, including the Bronx River Alliance, New York Restoration Project, and the Queens Botanical Garden. Ms. Weiss also serves a chair of the environmental Education Advisory Council, where she hopes to strengthen connections between environmental organizations and public schools.
August 4 and 5
Monday and Tuesday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
1 CEU $395/ 1 credit $1060
Materials fee $35
Registration Deadline 7/28
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