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These workshops provide new insight and perspective on specific subjects and offer new educational resources and tools for educators. The workshops focus on the arts, science, history and character education. The museum is a registered Professional Development provider. A certificate of completion is provided to all participants.
Professional Development Workshops take place on Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings. Pre-registration is required for each workshop. Program prices include resource materials, classroom activities and a light supper or lunch. Payment is required at the time of registration.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: John Kraft, archeologist/educator; Creator and Director of Lenape Lifeways Educational Program, Inc
This engaging slide-illustrated program will help educators reconstruct the cultural history of the Native Americans who once populated New Jersey and the surrounding area. The first half of the workshop will include examination of the customs and traditions, religious beliefs, legend , art, economy and system of government as practiced by the Lenape and as influenced by their natural surroundings. During the second half, Kraft will discuss the European contact, interaction with new settlers, native displacement and the Lenape/Delaware people today. Participants will also have an opportunity to handle authentic and recreated objects such as masks, clothing, musical instruments and tools.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1, 1.5; Social Studies Standards 6.3 – 6.5
Thursday, December 11, 2008
4:30 - 7 p.m.
$30 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Ellen Snyder-Grenier, Guinness Collection Curator; Jere Ryder, Guinness Collection Conservator
Participants will enjoy a behind the scenes tour and engaging discussion with museum collections staff, while exploring how automatic instruments – the precursors of records, CDs and digital music – work, what they meant in their time and how they were made. Through Guinness’ collection of automata – musical animated figures that imitate people or animals – discover how eighteenth-century virtuoso artisans inspired nineteenth-century Parisian craftsmen to create the mechanical marvels of their time. Participants will also enjoy a live demonstration of selected mechanical musical instruments and automata. Suggested classroom activities will be provided for the participating teachers.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 – 1.3, 1.5; Science Standards 5.2, 5.4, 5.7; Social Studies Standards 6.3, 6.4
Thursday, January 22, 2009
4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: James Frankel, Ed.D; Managing Director of Soundtree, clinician and consultant
This workshop looks at the many available interactive web technologies available to educators and how to successfully utilize them in the classroom. Participants will learn about blogs, wikis and easy-to-use website creation sites that help educators extend their classrooms into cyberspace.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 – 1.4; Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.2, 3.3, 3.5; Science Standard 5.2; Technological Literacy Standards 8.1, 8.2
Thursday, January 29, 2009
4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Janet Spirko, Elementary music teacher for Wanaque Borough Public Schools, recipient of the Governor’s Teacher of the Year Award 2008
This workshop is designed to introduce participants to an array of methods utilizing music in all subject areas. Although music educators will gain the most from this presentation, primary and intermediate level teachers, as well as special education teachers, will gain insights into the many ways in which music can be part of a cross-curricular approach to teaching. Participants are encouraged to dress comfortably, as the workshop will include many movement ideas that can be shared with the little musicians in your lives!
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 – 1.5
Thursday, February 19, 2009
4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Stephanie James Wilson, Executive Director of the New Jersey Amistad Commission
Through demonstration of effective lesson planning, this workshop is a hands-on experience with the New Jersey Amistad Commission’s lesson planning template and the Amistad state curriculum. Teachers will learn the full mission of the New Jersey Amistad Commission, written into law in 2002 to fully integrate African American history into the K-12 social studies curriculum as set forth by the Department of Education Core Curriculum Content Standards for Social Studies. Participants will return to their classrooms with a deeper knowledge of how to integrate African-American history and the contribution of African-Americans to the development of America into their social studies curricula.
Social Studies Standards 6.1, 6.2, 6.4
Thursday, February 26, 2009
4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Pat Flynn, teaching artist for Young Audiences of New Jersey, Arts for Learning
Through hands-on exercises, participants learn how to plan and implement activities that use the arts and humanities as a method of cross-curriculum multidisciplinary teaching. Participants can choose to work on designing innovative, active ways to present existing curriculum, creating thematic units of study to integrate subject areas, more effectively reach core curriculum content standards in a variety of areas, and/or design effective alternative assessment methods.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.2, 1.4; Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standard 2.2
Saturday, February 28, 2009
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Serena Bocchino, artist
Join New Jersey artist Serena Bocchino in this creative painting workshop. Participants will engage in still life drawing exercises that will lead into the abstract transfer onto canvas. During the workshop, individuals will paint while being guided by Bocchino. All skill levels are welcome. Participants must bring their own supplies; a materials list will be provided upon registration.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 - 1.3
Thursday, March 5, 2009
4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Vernoy Paolini, School Wide Enrichment Teacher for Lounsberry Hollow Middle School; Vice President of the Council of Holocaust Educators; President of Diversity Council of Kean University
Immigration built this country and made it the eclectic blend of cultures, traditions, religions and colors it boasts today. Join us to explore the contributions that immigrants have made to our society and to our country. Look at the struggles they endured and the sacrifices they made to giveus this rich history.Be a part of the discussion that will ask the hardquestions about the options the government has in dealing with thegrowing issue of "illegal aliens."Strategies will be provided for use in the classroom.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1, 1.5; Social Studies Standards 6.2, 6.4 - 6.6
Thursday, March 12, 2009
4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Sandra Bodin-Lerner, education consultant for St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center and public speaking coach
Violence is a growing concern in our schools and neighborhoods. Understanding the correlation between cruelty to animals and violence against humans enables educators to recognize high-risk behavior in their students and establish a foundation of empathetic behavior. To help Make Kindness Contagious in your classrooms, this humane education workshop will focus on: the correlation between violence and animal cruelty, ways to empower students to understand the consequences of their actions; and incorporating children’s interest in animals in ways to motivate them to learn in all academic areas while also developing humane characteristics. Each participant will receive a copy of the Make Kindness Contagious curriculum.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.1 – 1.5; Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standards 2.1, 2.2; Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.1 – 3.5; Mathematics Standards 4.1 – 4.5; Science Standards 5.1, 5.3, 5.5, 5.10
Saturday, March 14, 2009
9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
$30 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Jenny Gaus, Project Learning Tree facilitator, Superintendent of Environmental Education of Morris County Park Commission, adjunct professor of Environmental Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University
Project Learning Tree (PLT) is an environmental education program that uses the outdoors as a classroom. Through interactive lessons, teachers will gain awareness and knowledge of the natural world, specifically, relating to renewable and non-renewable resources, using our native forests as a foundation. Activities focus on engaging students in hands-on experiences that develop problem solving and critical thinking skills. PLT Activity Guides, which will be provided to all participants at the workshop, are correlated to the NJCCC Standards. Appropriate for grade levels K-8.
Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.1 – 3.3; Science Standards 5.1 – 5.10; Social Studies Standard 6.6
Thursday, March 19, 2009
4:30-7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Ellen Bernard Shrager, keynote speaker, educator and author
This interactive workshop will help educators reach disorganized and unmotivated students in their classrooms. Using an assortment of methods, participants will learn valuable ways to bridge the gap between home values and school values. This workshop is appropriate for K-12 and special education teachers, as well as guidance counselors.
Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standard 2.2; Career Education and Consumer, Family and Life Skills Standard 9.2
Thursday, April 23, 2009
4:30-7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Pat Flynn, teaching artist for Young Audiences of New Jersey, Arts for Learning
Through hands-on arts and humanities activities, participants learn how to help their students identify and constructively respond to prejudice in their own school and/or community. This workshop addresses the mandate for Holocaust Education for the State of New Jersey and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Visual and Performing Arts Standard 1.1, 1.2; Language Arts Literacy Standard 3.4; Social Studies Standards 6.3
Thursday, April 30, 2009
4:30-7:30 p.m.
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Ellen Musikant, New Jersey storyteller and workshop facilitator
In this workshop, participants will experience the art of storytelling. They will explore ways in which stories can engage children in learning and language acquisition, as well as jump into the story world! Participants will gain confidence in storytelling by learning simple techniques to tell a folktale, using natural language and expression. Each teacher will leave the workshop with at least one story they can bring back to the classroom.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards 1.2, 1.4; Language Arts Literacy Standards 3.1,3.3,3.4
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