IMPROVING EDUCATION: Engineering Instruction to Meet the Needs of All Learners

Thursday, June 13, 2024
9:00am – 3:00pm

Led by award-winning educator Casey Watts, this innovative workshop will demonstrate the concept of art integration in education. Through hands-on projects and interactive lessons inspired by the Museum’s collections and featured exhibition Improving Nature, educators will gain an understanding of what art integration is, the benefits it provides, and how to implement an art integrated curriculum into their own practice. Participants of all artistic skill levels will learn to create differentiated, thematic units in order to teach concepts to fidelity while accommodating all types of learners. Enjoy creating while learning methods that make the process of teaching easy and fun!

Advance Registration Required | All Supplies Included
CEU Credits (.5) Available  through SRESA

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Schedule:

9:00am
Overview of Schedule and Goals & Presentation of Curriculum Packet

9:15am
Improving Nature Exhibit Presentation
Kristen Miller Zohn, Curator of Exhibitions

10:00am
Improving Instruction: Arts Integration Content and Curriculum Connections
Casey Watts, Laurel Magnet School of the Arts

11:30am
Lunch Break

12:30pm
Improving Instruction: Arts Integration Content and Curriculum Connections
Casey Watts, Laurel Magnet School of the Arts

2:45pm
Review and Discussion

3:00pm
Dismissal

Educational Objectives:
In this workshop, Educators will…

• Gain an understanding of what art integration is, the benefits it provides, and how to implement an art integrated curriculum into their own practice.
• Create art using a variety of different techniques applicable to students of various ages and skill levels.
• Leave with cross-curricular lesson plans and resources for dynamic hands-on projects for their students.

Facilitator Biographies:

Casey Watts is the lead project director for the Whole School program at Laurel Magnet School of the Arts in Laurel, MS. In addition to being the project director, Casey is also a 4th grade ELA/Social Studies teacher and 3rd-6th grade ELA department chair. Casey began teaching in 2005 and has taught 3rd and 4th grades throughout her 19 year career. Casey obtained a B.S. degree in Elementary Education from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2005 and a Master of Education from William Carey University in 2009. Casey has presented professional development classes at school districts and conferences throughout Mississippi and other states sharing her love for using arts integration as an approach to teaching. She loves how the arts provide students with opportunities to engage in the learning process through a variety of formats that can showcase the current talents of the students, but also challenge those students to further their learning and knowledge through new techniques and forms.

Kristen Miller Zohn is the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art. She has a B.A. from Salem College in North Carolina and an M.A. from Florida State University, both in Art History, and she is a 2016 graduate of The Summer School of the Attingham Trust for the Study of Historic Houses and Collections. Miller Zohn has written numerous exhibition catalogues and is a contributing author to Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection; Grandeur of the Everyday: The Paintings of Dale Kennington; and the forthcoming The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts from Edinburgh University Press. Her book The Currency of Taste: The Gibbons Georgian Silver Collection of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art focuses on an important collection of the Museum, and she contributed an essay about the history of the collection to the recent publication A Century of Collecting: American and European Paintings, Prints, and Sculpture at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art.