The Art of a Creative Kindergarten/1st Grade Classroom:
Projects and Strategies for the Literacy Block
(Based on CA Standards for the Teaching Profession)  8.154
 Instructors:  Valen vanLaanen-Adcock
CLASS CANCELED

     

         

Date/Time:  September 12, 26; October 10, 31; November 7, 2007 - Wednesdays 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Location:  IMC, Building G
 Units: 1 (5 sessions, 15 hours)
Cost: District Credit: $75.00 or No Credit: $45.00  Out-of-District:  $105
 Registration: $30.00 to reserve your seat (Non-refundable.  Will be applied to course fee)
Payments:     Make checks payable to SDUSD and mail to:
                       Discover Program, IMC, Bldg A
                       2441 Cardinal Lane, San Diego 92123 
               
Course Description:
Start your Kindergarten / 1st Grade class off  creatively and learn how to incorporate the visual arts into your literacy block.  All activities are teacher-friendly and based on CA Standards for the Teaching Profession and Katie Wood Ray’s About the Authors, Writing Workshop with our Youngest Writers.   Motivate your students to become better readers, writers and artists. 

About the Instructor:
Valen has been teaching with SDCS for over 20 years and has also taught in the private sector.  She has presented workshops at ASDEG and the San Diego Natural History Museum as well as working as a BTSA service provider. 

Valen lives in La Mesa, CA, with her husband, John Adcock, where they raised their two sons.  Her interests include creating book clubs for children, sharing ideas with other teachers and hopefully inspiring students and grown-ups alike to become better educated. She has been nominated three times by former students to be included in Who’s Who in American Teachers.

Course Objectives:
Participants will:
1)  Discuss, share, and finally create reflective writings that demonstrate an understanding of the integration of aesthetics and effective environments following a presentation of options and ideas.
2)  Learn to assess student achievement through both the visual arts as well as more traditional written work samples.
3)  Participants will learn how to incorporate the arts into daily literacy blocks.
4)  Continue to design learning experiences following the guidelines provided in Ray’s About the Authors Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers.
5)  Finish and present the lesson started in Objective Four.

Directions:
 INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA CENTER, BLDG. G - (858) 496-1940
2441 Cardinal Lane, San Diego, CA 92123-3798

 Take Hwy 163 to Genesee Ave.; east to Cardinal Rd. (light); turn right at Cardinal Rd. and continue until you must turn; take a right at Cardinal Drive; turn into parking lot on right side just before road turns left onto Cardinal Lane.  If lot is full, you will need to park on the street.

Cross the street and follow signs to Building G.  (If your coming in through the main gate, Bldg. G is the bungalow facing the IMC Main Gate.)