3 - 50 minute sessions with 10 minute breaks between. Coffee, Tea, and Soda as well as an assortment of snacks will be available throughout the day. Click on the link above to register online or call us with your information. Purchase Orders welcome.
1:00-1:50 session
Table A Art with a Side of Music, Math & More, moderated by Cindy Bracker
Table B Keep or Crap? Assessment in Elementary Art, moderated by Brigid Murphy
2:00-2:50 session
Table A Art with a Side of Music, Math & More, moderated by Cindy Bracker
Table B Pots of the Past, & Cultures of Clay, moderated by Mary Helen Stuber
3:00-3:50 session
Table A Pots of the Past, & Cultures of Clay, moderated by Mary Helen Stuber
Table B Keep or Crap? Assessment in Elementary Art, moderated by Brigid Murphy
3 - 50 minute sessions with 10 minute breaks between. Coffee, Tea, and Soda as well as an assortment of snacks will be available throughout the day. Click on the link above to register online or call us with your information. Purchase Orders welcome.
1:00-1:50 session
Table A Art with a Side of Music, Math & More, moderated by Cindy Bracker
Table B Teaching Teapots, moderated by Greg Brantman
Table C What Do I Do With All These Freshmen?, moderated by Linda Horvath
2:00-2:50 session
Table ATeaching Teapots, moderated by Greg Brantman
Table B Art with a Side of Music, Math & More, moderated by Cindy Bracker
Table C Figurative Sculpture, moderated by Tim Mispagel
3:00-3:50 session
Table A What Do I Do With All These Freshmen?, moderated by Linda Horvath
Table B Figurative Sculpture, moderated by Tim Mispagel
Table C Art with a Side of Music, Math & More, moderated by Cindy Bracker
Do you have a topic you’d like to moderate at the next roundtable discussion? Please give a brief description on the back of your enrollment form and include all necessary contact information.
Elementary Topic Overviews and moderator information
Art with a Side of Music, Math & More, moderated by Cindy Bracker
The 6th National Standard for Art is Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines. This means that incorporating other curricula should already be a part of your art classroom. The art classroom is a great place to reach those kids who are left out by traditional methods of instruction or to reinforce learning for all your students. Plus, it makes your program more integral to overall learning and achievement of school QPAs. (This translates to more money for your program!) Bring some of your favorite lessons involving another content area to share with the group in this fun-filled session!
Cindy Bracker holds a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Kansas. During her experience at KU, she delved into the National Standards for Music that deal with incorporating other content areas into the Music classroom. Having had a lifetime of involvement in clay, she recognized the similarities in teaching visual arts and has created the Teacher's Info section of the Bracker's web site. She is actively involved in the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts and has been the coordinator of the Kansas City Clay Guild’s William N. Bracker Memorial Scholarship Competition and Show for 4 years.
Keep or Crap? Assessment in Elementary Schools, moderated by Brigid Murphy
Are you perplexed by how to assign a grade to a child’s creativity? Do you have difficulty helping kids learn for themselves what is “good” art? The 5th National Standard for Art is Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others. This is perhaps one of the biggest challenges in teaching Art. The elementary art teacher especially walks a delicate line between challenging a student to produce better work versus discouraging their creativity. The other extreme would be unconditional approval and praise for a students work to the degree that when a student does produce something outstanding, your praise is not as meaningful. Come to this session to discuss how to strike a balance between constructive criticism and appropriate praise, and how to get your students to start assessing their own work.
Biographical information on Brigid Murphy will be posted soon. Brigid is replacing previously scheduled moderator Paul Elo, who told us about a scheduling conflict after the original information was published.
Pots of the Past & Cultures of Clay, moderated by Mary Helen Stuber
The 4th National Standard for Art is Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures. But how does a teacher make art history interesting and applicable to elementary students? How does ceramics, which has up until recently been deemed a craft, fit into the framework of Art History periods? How do you teach culture without overstepping the delicate boundaries of religion? Come listen to the ideas and lesson plans of Mary Helen Stuber and bring your own examples, ideas, questions and lessons to share!
Mary Helen Stuber holds an MS in Education with an empahsis in Art Education from Northwest Missouri State University. She believes in life-long learning as is evident in her 48 hours (and counting) of graduate work. She has been teaching for 41 years and has experience in teaching at both the high school level and K-8 levels. In 1999 she was named the Missouri Art Educator of the Year. She recently retired from teaching in the Avenue City School District in Missouri. She continues to be active in the Missouri Art Education Association, serving in the past as District 1 representative and Secretary. She also serves as a docent at the Albrecht/Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, MO.
Secondary Topic Overviews and moderator information
Art with a Side of Music, Math & More, moderated by Cindy Bracker
The 6th National Standard for Art is Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines. This means that incorporating other curricula should already be a part of your art classroom. The art classroom is a great place to reach those kids who are left out by traditional methods of instruction or to reinforce learning for all your students. Plus, it makes your program more integral to overall learning and achievement of school QPAs. (This translates to more money for your program!) Bring some of your favorite lessons involving another content area to share with the group in this fun-filled session!
Cindy Bracker holds a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Kansas. During her experience at KU, she delved into the National Standards for Music that deal with incorporating other content areas into the Music classroom. Having had a lifetime of involvement in clay, she recognized the similarities in teaching visual arts and has created the Teacher's Info section of the Bracker's web site. She is actively involved in the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts and has been the coordinator of the Kansas City Clay Guild’s William N. Bracker Memorial Scholarship Competition and Show for 4 years.
Figurative Sculpture, moderated by Tim Mispagel
Sculpture is an important aspect of ceramics, and clay and an important medium within sculpture. Figurative Sculpture is the 3 Dimensional translation of life drawing. Unfortunately, it often falls through the cracks between sculpture and ceramics classes. Looking to add some variety to your classes? Are you intimidated by the challenges of teaching Sculpture? Or do you have some successes of your own you’d like to share? Come discuss all aspects of helping your students to create figurative sculpture from the “visual vocabulary” necessary to the sensitive issues of dealing with human forms in a classroom of teenagers and so much more.
Tim Mispagel holds a Bachelor of Art Education from Benedictine College with post-graduate work at the Kansas City Art Institute. He has been teaching for 10 years, the past 5 years of that at De Soto High School. He was a 2004-05 Kansas Teacher of the Year regional semi-finalist and is currently a nominee for the 2005-06 Disney Excellence in Teaching Award. In addition to teaching, he has been a Hallmark Artist and has been very successful in the furthering of his own wheel-thrown figurative sculpture and bronze-cast sculpture with frequent commissions coming through Fleishmann-Hillard.
Teaching Teapots, moderated by Greg Brantman
The teapot is the ultimate form in functional ceramics. It incorporates the major components of ceramic form: A vessel capable of holding water, a handle, a lid, a spout, and of course, the element of design. These are the things that a teapot NEEDS, but what a teapot IS is so much more. A student’s creative abilities are tested and furthered in the study and creation of a teapot. Come discuss your students’ efforts thus far or get ideas on how to teach the making of teapots at this excellent session with one of the most well-known teapot teachers around.
Greg Brantman holds a Bachelor of Science in Art Education from Northwest Missouri State University and a Masters in Ceramics from Fort Hays State. He has been teaching for over 30 years, most of which has been spent at Shawnee Mission North High School. During his time as a teacher, he has been a driving and motivating force for both students and other teachers in the Shawnee Mission secondary Art arena. In addition to his many accolades in teaching, too numerous to list, he is also quite an incredible artist. He did additional post-graduate work at the Kansas City Art Institute for a summer where he was influenced greatly by Ken Ferguson, Victor Babu, and George Timock. His work is shown in numerous exhibits throughout the region.
What do I do with all these Freshman??? moderated by Linda Horvath
Most often, introductory ceramics lessons are directed to Elementary school children. High school students would be bored with these, and probably make fun of them. Have you been looking for some good, age-appropriate introductory lessons to use with limited budget and equipment and overloaded classes? Linda will share examples that include a variety of projects she has picked up from workshops and other art educators using slips, textures, underglazes and mason stains. Bring some ideas of your own to share or come to this session to find some new ways to stimulate your high school students!
Linda Horvath holds a Bachelor in Art with Teaching Certificate from Kansas State University and a Masters of Science in Visual Arts and Administration from Bank Street College of Education & Parsons School of Design, New York. She has taught Art for 31 years at Bonner Springs High School. She was heavily involved with the MO-KS 1 Regional Scholastic Art committee for ten years, and even served as chair for 7 of those years. She also chaired KAEA Membership committee for 4 years and was awarded the KAEA Secondary Art Educator of the Year award in 2003.
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