CommonGround
2008
Mindful Innovations
Addressing
the Needs of Diverse Learners
through the Arts
Russell
Granet
Arts Education Resource
Jaehn Clare
Teaching Artist, VSA
Arts of Georgia |
The
workshop will focus on the many ways
in which teachers and artists can adapt
existing lessons so all students can
be successful in the arts.
This
hands-on workshop will explore the different
ways in which students with disabilities
learn through the arts. The goal
is to give participants practical strategies
that can be applied immediately. Presenters
will focus on dance and theater, but
also have knowledge of music and visual
arts.
Conference Strand:
Core Knowledge
Educators: knowing
your students, adapting arts activities
for all students
Artists: adding
to your arts toolkit, adapting what you
do to address all students
Cultural Organization
Administrators: will understand
how an effective cross-disciplinary
project can unite a team of otherwise
disparate individuals from previously
disconnected communities.
Education
Administrators: identify
a variety of instructional activities,
better understanding of students
with special needs
Community/Parents:
will be able to identify a variety
of instructional activities, better
understanding of students with
special needs
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Russell Granet started
Arts Education Resource after
seventeen years of working with New
York City non-profit organizations. His
most recent position was at the Center
for Arts Education (CAE). Working
with students with disabilities remains
a personal passion. He has recently
joined the faculty of the City University
of New York where he teaches "The World
of the Teaching Artist" and "Drama
with Special Education Populations."
Jaehn Clare has
more than thirty years experience
as an actor, director, producer,
playwright, teaching artist, and
arts administrator. In 1980, while
working on a production of Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," she
fell 27 feet from the top of a
ladder, permanently altering her
life. She is a 2006 VSA
arts Teaching Artist Fellow, a
GA Wolf Trap Teaching Artist, and
she works with the Kaiser Permanente
Educational Theater. Jaehn
has also danced professionally
for three years with Atlanta's
Full Radius Dance.
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