Inside: Introducing a free email course for art teachers that will help you beat the most common challenges to teaching art appreciation.
Teaching art appreciation and showing works of art in the classroom is a challenge for most art teachers.
Not enough time.
You’ve got projects to grade, meetings to attend, artworks to hang and take down and pass out to students. And that’s all before lunch. When do you find the time to fit in appreciation when your students spend so much time creating and you spend so much time cleaning up?
Not enough knowledge.
What if students ask about something you don’t know the answer to–the artist’s life, the historical context, or how the artwork was made?
Not enough student interest.
What’s worse—the complaining or the blank stares? How do you make students enjoy looking at art when all they do is say they’re bored or that art just isn’t their “thing”?
Not enough support from admins.
Even art teachers are being forced to teach to the test. How can we convince admins that looking at art isn’t just valuable, it’s essential?
Overcoming the barriers that keep us from showing our students works of art is vital to giving them a complete art education. That’s why we’re offering a FREE email course, Beyond the Surface: Teach Students How to Dive Deeper into an Artwork to Make Connections and Meaning starting March 22nd.
Teaching Art Appreciation with Beyond the Surface
Lesson 1
Flipping the Script: Overcoming the Challenges that Keep You From Showing Art
Lesson 2
From Crickets to Connections: What to Say to Get Them to Go Beyond What They See
Lesson 3
Curating the Conversation: Helping your Students Get “All-In” on the Art Discussion
Lesson 4
Artworks They’ll Relate To: Finding the Right Art for YOUR Students
Lesson 5
Enthralling Experiences in Art Interpretation: Get Students Engaged and KEEP Them Engaged
BONUS – Lesson 6
There Just Is Not TIME! Making the Time for Experiences That Students AND Admins Will Remember
Free Professional Development Email Course
Starting on March 22, 2021, Beyond the Surface will help you beat the most common challenges to teaching art appreciation.
As art teachers, we can model and teach the empathy, confidence, and higher level thinking skills that will change lives and transform generations by kindling a love for art – one artwork at a time.
Bridge the gap between art making and art engagement.
Become the curator in your classroom.
Join me and learn how to make the time to get students meaningfully engaged with artworks they will relate to and connect with in a way admins will love.
Free PD Email Series!
Beyond the Surface
Teach Students How to Dive Deeper into an Artwork to Make Connections and Meaning
Sign up and receive this FREE professional development series about how to engage students when teaching works of art by using memorable activities and leading thoughtful discussions.
I signed up for the e-mail course, but I’m curious, how many hours of PD credit will the certificate show at the end of the courses?
Hi Tammy! We won’t know final hours until we complete the videos, but it should be around 4 PD hours.
I am very excited to learn more about your art classes and videos, I always felt inspired to teach, but I don’t know how to do it.
I would like to sign up for the email course.. ISit for High School Teachers, or does it also apply to elementary art techers?
Does itrun pnce per week for 6 weeks?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Christina! The course is good for teachers of all grade levels and it’s not too late to join! The lessons arrive over a 2 week period.
Hi Christina – is there any chance you will have PDFs of each email lesson? I am having a hard time reformatting it and would love to save it for future use. As always, I love your emails and your website. I am a teacher in Houston and we are collaborating with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston with our 3rd graders, visiting at least once a month and then talking about art when we get back to our classroom and making authentic written and visual responses.
Hi Elizabeth,
If you send us an email at support@artclasscurator.com, we can send you direct links to the emails. 🙂
It is March 19. The application would not let me sign up, so I gather I am too late to sign up for the online course. I am still very interested in taking it. Will it be offered again and if so when and how would I be able to sign up?
Hi Rochelle! After the course was over, it was archived for members of the Art Class Curator Resource Library. From time to time we offer free courses like this, so stay tuned!