SEEKING PROSPECTIVE & EXPERIENCED TEACHING ARTISTS & TEACHERS FOR TRAINING INSTITUTE SUMMER INTENSIVE 2010
Mark DeGarmo & Dancers/Dynamic Forms Inc. (MDDF) seeks energetic and enthusiastic participants for its Teaching Artist & Teacher Training Institute: Summer Intensive 2010. The institute is a professional learning opportunity for dance, theater, movement, music, visual, and media artists and teachers to develop and refine their skills in the fields of arts, dance and creative movement education. The program integrates experiential learning seminars and reflective practice. The program objective is to create opportunities for emerging and experienced teaching artists and teachers.
Responsibilities: This is an 18-hour institute over 3 days. Content includes: arts and dance education partnerships grounded in interdisciplinary and inquired-based teaching and learning methods connected with reflective practice. Participants are expected to prepare for the seminars by selecting and reporting on reading from the institute's bibliography, keeping a journal, preparing a lesson plan, and writing 2 essays: one due before the first seminar and the second essay due within one week after the institute's conclusion. An MDDF certificate of completion will be provided to all participants successfully completing the requirements of the institute.
Schedule: The institute runs Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday July 27-28-29, 2010 10:00 AM-4:00 PM.
Location: Seminars will occur at the studio of Mark DeGarmo & Dancers at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center—a Puerto Rican/Latino intentionally multicultural and inclusive arts center—at 107 Suffolk Street, Suite 310 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Fees: The fee for the institute is $450. There is a nonrefundable $75 registration fee for all accepted participants to hold their places in the program, applicable to the tuition fee. Some work study exchange is possible.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Experience or interest teaching performing or visual arts to public school students and partnering with their teachers and school communities.
- Interest in developing age-appropriate arts education skills.
- Comfortable in complex public school environments.
- Openness to professional learning in the context of a learning community.
- Self-motivated, with an attention to detail.
- Ably manage and follow-through on multiple priorities, tasks and projects individually and on a team.
- Flexibility with good problem-solving skills under pressure.
- High school diploma required; current college student, Bachelor's or Master's degree preferred.
- A sense of humor, patience, energy and imagination for challenges.
- Computer and online research literacy.
Goals:
- Develop and refine competencies in arts, dance and creative movement inquiry-based and arts-integrated teaching and learning through an experiential learning process combining experiential learning with reflection and reflective practice;
- Integrate arts education theory and practice; and
- Provide a service to the field of arts education through an intensive training institute for current and prospective teaching artists and teachers in the arts, dance and movement arts.
- Increase skills—and opportunities—for future employment in multiple settings throughout the NYC arts education field.
SEMINARS (18 hours total)
Seminar 1: Inquiry-based Arts Education (6 hours)
Tuesday July 27 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Content and learning outcomes include:
a) Introducing inquiry-based learning theories and practice in arts and dance education
b) Researching and planning for inquiry projects
c) Practicing backward curriculum design.
Seminar 2: Reflection and the Reflective Practitioner (6 hours
Wednesday July 28 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Content and learning outcomes include investigating critical issues of reflection & reflective practice and methods, such as:
a) Critical, embodied, and multicultural approaches to reflection and reflective practice
b) Developmentally appropriate learner-centered reflective practice and methods
c) Teaching Artist and Teacher as culturally situated reflective practitioners.
Seminar 3: Arts-integrated Planning, Practice, and Assessment (6 hours)
Thursday July 29 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Content and learning outcomes include:
a) Interdisciplinary (arts-integrated) theory, methods, and practice
b) Engagement and imagination: holistic systems-based approaches embedded in best arts and dance classroom practice
c) Action and team-based assessment.
APPLICATION
Email a brief cover letter specifying:
- Concise statement of how your teaching and artistic goals, accomplishments and processes are connected (5-7 sentences maximum).
- How your skills and previous experience qualify you for the institute.
- Ability to attend and fulfill all institute requirements.
- 75-word statement of your goals for participating in the institute.
- If you are applying for a partial work study exchange, state your reasons for doing so and your availability for work study during the month of July.
- 150-word biography.
- Attach:
i. Resume (2 pages maximum).
ii. Full contact information and their relationship to you for three professional references familiar with and supervising your work in a similar context.
Email Applications to: info@markdegarmoarts.org.
Decision Date: Mid-July 2010. Applications are currently being reviewed and interviews are being scheduled.
Questions? Email: info@markdegarmoarts.org Call: 212.375.9214.
This program is supported with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. The Dana Foundation supported previous institutes.
