Montalvo Arts Center is committed to partnering with educators in an effort to make up for the loss of arts education in our schools. Montalvo's teacher services initiative provides quality professional development opportunities to teachers in grades K-12. Designed to provide inspiration for busy teachers, these programs bring specialists and generalists together to explore the arts in a variety of unique hands-on learning experiences.
Educators are invited to:- Engage in dynamic visual and performing arts learning experiences led by master teachers and guest artists.
- Gain insight into how the arts can be central to learning and promote growth and development.
- Investigate connections among learning in the arts and in other core content areas.
- Inspire each other through collaboration and sharing of our ideas and experiences in the arts.
Join us as we inspire each other through collaboration and sharing of our ideas and experiences in the arts.
NEW! Professional Development Workshops for Teachers
Expanding the “Arts in Your Classroom” experience, these workshops engage educators in hands-on, arts-integrated lesson demonstrations, and focus on the encouragement and growth of student voice through arts learning experiences.
- Altered Books:You Can't Tell a Book by It's Cover
Feb 2, 2008 | 10:00am - 1:00pm | The Barn at Montalvo
Presented in partnership with the Santa Clara County Office of Education's Arts 101 program.
SIX: The Arts in Your Classroom
A Conference for K-8 Educators Exploring Learning Through the Arts
Envision, Experiment, Explore
Friday, March 7, 2008
First held in March 2003, The Arts in Your Classroom invites both first-time and returning participants to explore learning through the arts. This professional development program is held annually in March in celebration of Arts Education Month in California.
A collaboration between Montalvo Arts Center and the Santa Clara County Office of Education, the conference draws upon the SCCOE’s Visual and Performing Arts Resource Guide,* and focuses on the encouragement and growth of student voice through arts learning experiences. Workshop sessions engage educators in reflection on the concerns of our times through hands-on arts integrated lesson demonstrations. Participants in AiYC gain a fresh understanding of the importance of the arts in student development, a renewed sense of their own creativity, and an increased capacity to share the arts with students and colleagues.
Each year the conference includes a keynote address by a nationally recognized arts educator. Previous speakers, including noted teaching artists Eric Booth and Celeste Miller, have provided inspiration and a renewed sense of purpose for busy teachers.
Since its inception, The Arts in Your Classroom conference has trained over 600 educators in arts integration and subsequently provided quality arts experiences to over 15,000 students in the classroom.
*The Visual and Performing Arts Resource Guide, created by the SCCOE in collaboration with outstanding educators and master teachers, includes standards-based, teacher-friendly, developmentally appropriate arts lessons and curriculum links to other core subjects such as language arts and mathematics.
Special thanks to the following AiYC Conference Supporters:
Special thanks to the people and organizations who support AiYC through in-kind donations:
- Cooper-Garrod Estate Vineyards
- San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
- Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT)
- American Musical Theatre of San Jose
- Symphony Silicon Valley
- San Jose Repertory Theatre / Red Ladder Theatre Company
- Kitsch Couture
- Starbucks Coffee Company
- Santa Clara County Office of Education
- Montalvo Arts Center
