Honor student creativity. Watch behaviors and resistance begin to melt away.
What if teaching was fun again? What if students and teachers felt fulfilled by the learning process instead of depleted? This reality is possible and within reach.
About The Course
In this course you'll find:
- 5 modules on reimagining the educator/student relationship
- 4 modules on implementing arts-based strategies and the learning styles they support
- PDF guides with easy to implement multi-disciplinary art activities that do not require fancy materials or an arts background to facilitate.
- 15-minute videos that can be watched over prep time or breaks throughout your teaching day.
Unlock the Key Benefits
It feels impossible to adapt your lessons to suit everyone's learning styles and emotional needs. That's why the arts are so powerful. One activity is a constellation of connection points.
Core Teaching Philosophy
Lay the foundation for a nurturing classroom environment for both students and teachers. Digest bite-size summaries of core teaching methods that will help frame the work for successful implementation.
Emotional Intelligence
Each module is rich with real-life classroom examples from a broad range of classrooms and communities, including interactions with students, group facilitation, and creative problem solving.
Bank of Activities
Start to implement strategies now with activities to get you going and suggestions on how to expand upon them for continued inspiration. Tips and tricks for troubleshooting are given to help avoid chaos in the classroom.
Explore Our Course Modules
MODULE #1
How We View Children
Are the children bringing you through the spectrum of emotions as seen here? This section offers a lens on the classroom experience from an artist's point of view.
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Emotional Intelligence
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All Abilities
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The classroom evironment: impacts on learning
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Self-preservation
MODULE #2
An Arts-Based Approach
A creative framework.
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Implementing art strategies to teach core curriculum
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The Reggio Emilia Approach
MODULE #3
Core Arts Disciplines
Broad strokes in 4 major disciplines with PDFs of easy to implement activity suggestions and how to keep transforming them to use again and again.
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Visual Art
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Dance
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Music
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Theater
Meet Your Instructor
Hey, I’m Lindsey Samples
Theater Artist, Educator, Parent
M.Ed. Youth Development Leadership
As a theater artist I've been lucky enough to train in getting inside someone's story and trying my best to learn why they say and do what they do. It's called empathy. And turns out it is really helpful in the classroom.
Most of the theater I have been a part of creating has been multi-disciplinary, meaning, involving several different art forms in one show. So when I visit a classroom for an artist residency, I am able to draw on this array of self-expression.
In between gigs as an artist I substitute teach. What I have found is that because of my artist training, I have been equipped with tools to diffuse chaos in a room, create a sense of belonging, and build avenues for students to connect with what they're learning.
I believe these tools can be used even if you don't have training in the arts. I believe that using these tools will develop empathy in your classroom. And I believe that when empathy and creativity get a chance to blossom in young people, we will raise a generation of humans who are able to lead with care.
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