Application for the 2009
Arts for All Teaching Artist Training Program

Presented by Arts for All, in partnership with the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Armory Center for the Arts, the Music Center, and Culver City Unified School District

"Now that I participated in the Arts for All Teaching Artist Training program, I feel more knowledgeable and confident employing questioning strategies, identifying curriculum connections, organizing the pacing and delivery of lessons, and using resources for lesson plan ideas." - 2008 Teaching Artist participant

Arts for All’s Teaching Artist Training Program will accept 16 professional artists, 4 per discipline in music, dance, theater, and visual arts, to participate in a 3-part series of workshops culminating in the presentation of sequential lessons in Culver City Unified K-8 classrooms.

This 22-week course will run on Thursday afternoons from January 8 through June 11, 2009

Participants will receive a Professional Designation in Arts Education certificate upon the successful completion of this workshop.

Who Qualifies?
Participants from around Los Angeles County will be selected through a competitive application process that includes a resume submissions and brief essay questions.

Requirements:
• Prior experience teaching youth in the arts;
• A commitment to improving oneself as a teaching artist;
• An interest in the artistic process, critical thinking and school relationships;
• A desire to work in groups and to give and receive critical peer feedback;
• Availability to participate in all workshop activities throughout the course of 6 months.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
PART I: LAYING THE FOUNDATION         Thursdays, January 8 – February 19, 2009
In this 7 week (20 hours) workshop series, you will receive in-depth training emphasizing the California Content Standards including Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) standards; acquire knowledge of child development issues; explore various teaching strategies and models; acquire classroom management techniques; integrate interdisciplinary models; and develop an understanding of different assessment methods. The coursework lays the foundation for you to craft your own six sequential lesson plans, which you will deliver to K-8 students in Part III.

PART II: OBSERVATION & PEER PRESENTATIONS         Thursdays, February 26 – April 23, 2009
During this 8 week series (23 hours), you will be mentored by a master teaching artist from the Music Center. In four arts discipline-based groups, you will observe your mentor teach a six-week residency in classrooms in the Culver City Unified School District. You will join in the classroom teacher/teaching artist planning meeting and observe the master teaching artist's sequential lessons. After each classroom lesson, you will spend an hour with your mentor to break-down and discuss the lesson you observed. During the debriefing sessions, you will also receive guidance from your mentor on the six sequential lessons that you are preparing on your own time. To further support the development of your lessons, you will conduct a teacher planning meeting and participate in two days of peer presentations to rehearse your lessons and receive feedback from your mentors and peers, in preparation for Part 3: Practical Application.

PART III: PRACTICAL APPLICATION         Thursdays April 30 – June 4, 2009
This 6 week series (12 hours), opens the classrooms of Culver City Unified School District to you as your teaching laboratory. Bringing your artistry and the knowledge and skills learned over the past fifteen sessions, you will deliver your six sequential lessons to a K-8 classroom. A mentor will observe the class and meet with you following to reflect on your lesson and offer feedback.

CLOSING CLASS – Sharing and evaluation         Thursday June 11, 2009
This final session brings you together with your fellow course participants, the mentor artists, and the classroom teachers to share your experiences and to reflect on next steps. Future opportunities for training, employment, and inclusion on www.LAArtsEd.org will be presented.

INSTRUCTORS
PART I is taught by Lorraine Cleary Dale, Director of Professional Development at the Armory Center for the Arts. Since her position was created in 1996, Lorraine has trained artists, students, and pre- and in-service classroom teachers. She is an accomplished educator, national presenter, exhibiting artist, and arts education consultant. Lorraine served as a curriculum evaluator for the primary adoption of the Visual and Performing Arts instructional material for the California Department of Education. She teaches as an adjunct professor at Otis College of Art and Design in the Liberal Arts department.

PART II is coordinated by the Music Center's Director of Curriculum and Teaching Artist Training, Susan Cambigue-Tracey, who selects the four highly experienced master teaching artists from the Music Center's roster to serve as mentors. Susan has been a nationally recognized dance educator as part of the National Endowment for the Arts Artist-in Schools Dance Program, performer, dance writer, and arts education consultant for 44 years. During this time she has also served as a teaching artist for The California Arts Project (TCAP) Open and Leadership Institutes,  part-time dance faculty for LMU,  and a dance education consultant/writer/workshop leader for  Performing Tree and  the Galef Institute.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This training program is a key strategy in Arts for All: Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education, which is designed to increase sequential K-12 instruction in dance, music, theatre and the visual arts throughout the districts in the County. To learn more about Arts for All or the online Resource Directory, please visit www.lacountyarts.org.

Primary Funding provided by The Dana Foundation.
* This class would normally cost $3,600 per person, but is subsidized by the Dana Foundation.

Pooled Fund members for 2007-08 include Boeing, The Angell Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Target Corporation, Warner Bros. Entertainment. Previous members include Creative Artists Agency, Entertainment Industry Foundation, The Getty Foundation, The Jewish Community Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation and The Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation. The Dana Foundation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts and the Herb Alpert Foundation each support specific Arts for All initiatives.