Reaching Your Students through Visual Arts

Sponsored by

The Salem State Collaborative

Presenter: Amy Gordon

Visual Arts and Special Education Consultant

The Monarch School of New England

Location: Peabody Veterans Memorial High School

Audience: Grades K-12 Art and SPED Teachers

Time: 8:15-2:15 PM (lunch included)

Date: 2 March 2010 (Tuesday)

PDP’s: 5 for the session

Fee: $35 for Member Districts $105 for non-Member Districts

Description: This dynamic and interactive workshop for SPED, art, and elementary teachers alike is sure to open your eyes to the possibilities of creating art projects in class to motivate, inspire, and ultimately reach your students. Amy Gordon has taught art at all levels including Advanced Placement and Studio Art classes in high school, community based programs for young children, and in special education classrooms. In her current role at The Monarch School of New England, she uses a multi-sensory approach to help students create art despite significant physical and cognitive disabilities.

This workshop will feature many modifications for special education students, those with physical and/or learning disabilities. Learn to help your students create beautiful projects using only their own strokes and marks while exposing them to cross-curricular projects using a multi-sensory approach. If you want to learn some new techniques for reaching challenging students and helping them express their creativity, this workshop will provide you with new techniques and ideas for doing so. Detailed handouts will accompany all projects and modifications for each project will be discussed for age as well as disability. This is an active workshop; it is highly recommended that attendees wear clothing appropriate for doing art projects.

Registration Information:

Please register at our website www.salemcollaborative.org, or email the following information to

Jim Kearns at registration@salemcollaborative.org. If you have registration questions, please

either email (preferred) or call Jim at 781-771-4860.

Make checks or Purchase Orders payable to CPMSIE and Bring to the First Session

DEADLINE to sign up is 26 February 2010