Professional Institute for Educators Summer Courses
Advance your creativity and your career through the Professional Institute for Educators at UArts. The program offers creative educational courses to serve the professional development and PA Act 48 needs of K–12 teachers. Classes are offered in the areas of Arts, Inclusion, Literacy, Educational Technology and Library of Congress: Teaching with Primary Sources.
Graphic Design for the Classroom: Adobe Photoshop
Gain an understanding and learn the fundamentals of Adobe Photoshop for use in middle and high school classrooms. Develop practical strategies to integrate software skills into lessons as a foundation for ongoing design exploration with students. Each day will include design lecture, software skill demonstration, and studio time for in-class exercises and projects. Aug. 2-Aug. 13
Engagement Matters: Formative Assessment Using Web-Based Technology
This course focuses on relevant, personal and practical feedback to inform different stages of the learning process and creating a classroom culture of feedback grounded in student interests, passions and authentic response. May 24-June 27. Registration for this class is closed.
Google Apps for Education
This course will serve as a jumping off point as to how Google Apps can greatly benefit and integrate seamlessly into the classroom experience for you and your students. May 25–June 14. Registration for this class is closed.
Exploring Literacy through the Visual Arts
Gain a basic understanding of how the brain learns and why a visual art integrated approach can build both the acquisition of literacy skills and the fluency students need to become proficient and advanced learners. June 1–July 9. Registration for this class is closed.
Blended and Flipped Learning: Advanced
Learn how to optimize blended/flipped models to personalize learning and encourage student ownership. Dive deeper into how student control of place, path, and/or pace of learning ultimately leads to more successful outcomes. June 15-July 13. Registration for this class is closed.
Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom
Gain a practical framework to teach students how to manage emotions and behaviors to achieve one's goals, show understanding and empathy for others, deal effectively with conflict, and recognize and talk about feelings. June 21- July 26
Visual Arts for the Classroom: Digital Photography, Introductory
Explore, refine and improve general techniques relating to digital photography, including camera functions, image storage, final output options and some post-production techniques using Photoshop. June 21-July 2
Visual Arts for the Classroom: Digital Photography, Advanced
Refine and improve techniques relating to digital photography. Composition, lighting and subject are discussed and critiqued as participants create a cohesive body of work with the final goal a series of project-based photographs. June 21-July 2
Creating a Classroom Community Through the Arts
Use guided discovery, movement, imagery, spatial concepts, choreography, musical and rhythmic accompaniment and group theater games to promote positive relationships and academic achievement. June 28-July 30. Registration for this class is closed.
Interactive Presentations
Explore the web's potential for interactivity, including slideshows and videos, back channeling, 3-D, animations, interactive whiteboards, screencasting, online debates, collaboration, and brainstorming tools. All applications introduced in the course are free, with iPad-approved options available for those teachers who use them in their classrooms. June 28-Aug. 1. Registration for this class is closed.
Posters for the People - Using WPA Sources (3.0 graduate credits)
Participants learn about the WPA, the power of design to communicate and how to use visual primary sources to engage students. Participants will use the digital archives of the Library of Congress to prepare lessons based on these powerful historic images. July 5-July 16. Registration for this class is closed.
Posters for the People - Using WPA Sources (non-credit)
Participants learn about the WPA, the power of design to communicate and how to use visual primary sources to engage students. Participants will use the digital archives of the Library of Congress to prepare lessons based on these powerful historic images. July 5-July 16. Registration for this class is closed.
Visual Storytelling Techniques for Educators
Consider narrative concepts as conveyed or enhanced through visual images. Discover studio projects, presentations and hands-on exercises that can be replicated directly to help students increase their visual literacy skills and enhance learning. July 5-July 16. Registration for this class is closed.
Online Tools & Collaboration in Education
Explore the use of technology as a tool to engage students in constructive critical thinking about the subjects they study. User-friendly Web 2.0 tools, tools provide opportunities for educators and students to communicate and interact in new, collaborative ways. July 12-Aug. 13. Registration for this class is closed.
Digital Citizenship in Today's K-12 Classroom
Digital technologies are ever-changing, and come with a set of risks and rewards for your students. This course will help you lead students within today's digital environment, including guidance around the appropriate and safe use of digital tools both inside and outside of the classroom. July 12-Aug. 10. Registration for this class is closed.
A Is for Everything - How Typography Shapes Our Language and Culture (3.0 graduate credits)
Using type specimens, printed ephemera, and design examples from the Library of Congress digital collections, participants will trace histories, narratives and connection in parallel with our diverse cultural experiences and visual language. Collaborative exercises will encourage participant to think critically about how type and design shapes our language and visual culture. July 19-July 30
A Is for Everything - How Typography Shapes Our Language and Culture (non-credit)
Using type specimens, printed ephemera, and design examples from the Library of Congress digital collections, participants will trace histories, narratives and connection in parallel with our diverse cultural experiences and visual language. Collaborative exercises will encourage participant to think critically about how type and design shapes our language and visual culture. July 19-July 30
Visual Arts for the Classroom: Landscape Painting, Introductory
Produce finished paintings and discuss this genre and the themes often illustrated in it, including the concept of place, scale, the nature of light, and the balance of man and nature. Work from direct observation and cover concepts in landscape composition that will help them achieve their desired results. All course content will be directly applicable to classroom instruction and curriculum for art educators. July 19-July 30
Visual Arts for the Classroom: Landscape Painting, Advanced
Discuss themes, evaluate the effects of light and color, and refine specific techniques. This course takes into account the immediacy of changing conditions while working en plein air. Participants work from direct observation and consider techniques that achieve desired results. Course content and critiques applicable to art classroom instruction. July 19-30
Visual Arts for the Classroom: Landscape Painting, Advanced II
Refine advanced techniques with an emphasis on an in-the-field approach to landscape as subject matter. Discuss genre and themes, including the concept of place, scale, the nature of light, and the balance of man and nature. Course content and critiques applicable to art classroom instruction. July 19-30