CommonGround
2008
Mindful Innovations
Building
the Relevance of the Visual Art
Program across the School with
VTS
Amy Chase
Gulden
NY Regional Director for Visual
Thinking Strategies |
Experience Visual
Thinking Strategies and hear tales
from a school partnership of how it
revolutionized teacher participation
in the school's art programming.
Visual
Thinking Strategies, a classroom-based
art-viewing curriculum, has been proven
to support growth in aesthetic understanding
and critical thinking skills which transfer
to other subject areas. Experience a
VTS discussion first hand and learn how
this practice has transformed the participation
and relationship of classroom teachers
to school arts programming.
Conference Strand:
Core Knowledge
Educators,
Educational Administrators:
will
be introduced to the most basic elements
of the VTS method and learn how classroom
teachers have articulated its relevance
to their own practice and
its ability to support key areas
of student learning.
Artists: will
be introduced to the most basic elements
of the VTS method and learn how it can
become a bridge to involve classroom
teachers in their student's art education,
including how classroom teachers
have articulated its relevance to
their own practice and its
ability to support key areas of student
learning.
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Amy
Chase Gulden is
an artist with experience in
arts education as a researcher,
a program director, and a designer
of professional development and curriculum.
She particularly enjoys documenting
teaching practices and student learning
as a way to build communities of
reflective practice. She is currently
doing that by introducing ESP partnerships
to NYSCA’s Evidence of Teacher
and Student Learning Template
through a grant to The SchoolWorks
Lab, where she is Senior Researcher.
Prior to joining VTS, Amy was director
of Studio in a School’s Long
Term visual-arts residency program,
where she continues to consult.
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