Professional Development

Workshops, Grants, Associations, etc.
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Annenberg offers a variety of PD through Video on Demand. They are of high quality and well worth the time it takes to watch them.

Connecting With the Arts: A Teaching Practices Library, 6-8
http://learner.org/resources/series198.html

This video library features a variety of meaningful arts integration approaches taking place in middle school classrooms around the country.

Connecting With the Arts: A Workshop for Middle Grades Teachers
http://learner.org/resources/series199.html

This video workshop shows middle school teachers why and how to integrate the arts (dance, music, theatre, and visual art) with other subjects (language arts, social studies, science, and math).

The Art of Teaching the Arts: A Workshop for High School Teachers
http://www.learner.org/resources/series202.html

The Art of Teaching the Arts: A Workshop for High School Teachers is an eight-part professional development workshop for use by high school dance, music, theatre, and visual art teachers. The workshop examines how principles of good teaching are carried out in teaching the arts at the high school level. In the eight one-hour video programs, seven principles of effective teaching are introduced, then explored in depth.

Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art
http://www.tate.org.uk/learnonline/
The Tate has a wide variety of resources to learn about art from online courses to podcasts, to Tate on iTunes U. You can find many links here

Accessart
http://www.accessart.org.uk
The aim of this online resource is to be inspiring, interactive and useful, and to provide teachers with access to ideas that explore the relationship between literacy and visual arts. To enable teachers of all cycles and museum and gallery educators to actively develop their practice through exchange of ideas and experiences.