Professional Development Fall 2016
Application Form /
Teaching Artist Professional Development Training
Application Due by e-mail 4pm on August 1, 2016
Are you a teaching artist who believes art can and does change lives? Do you want to teach students who have dynamic creativity and expression? Would you like to connect with other teaching artists who care about engaging students with emotional and behavioral challenges?
Based on 3 years’ success by VSA Vermont Teaching Artist Lisa M. Condino in supporting student engagement through the arts at the Howard Center’s Baird School, VSA Vermont’s Arts to Smarts Project is partnering with faculty and administrators at Baird School to develop a training model for teaching artists to learn skills and gain experience to successfully engage students with severe emotional and behavioral challenges for use in both public and independent schools.
The Arts to Smarts Professional Development Pilot training will take place in the fall of 2016 and is designed to provide both information and direct experience engaging students with severe emotional and behavioral challenges through the arts. Taught by VSA Vermont Teaching Artist, Lisa M. Condino in partnership with Sandra Limoge and other faculty from Baird School, the course will begin with 3 day-long in person intensives, arts activities, assigned readings and webinars, on-line and in person reflection followed by collaborative planning sessions and a practicum at Baird School (Howard Center) in Burlington. The course will wrap up with a final in-person meeting.
To be considered for participation, applicants must be available to attend the 4 class dates listed below, complete readings and on-line reflections, participate in on-line meetings, complete a practicum at Baird School (Howard Center) in Burlington, and successfully complete background checks.
Teaching artists who are accepted for the pilot course will each receive a $700 stipend. Teaching artists can choose to use part of their stipend for tuition and receive 3 graduate level credits from St. Michael’s College, contingent upon successful completion of the pilot training course.
Course Dates:
*Intensives and practicum will be held at Baird School (Howard Center), 1138 Pine Street, Burlington VT 05401
Saturday, September 10
9:30-12:30, lunch break, 1:30-4:30
Saturday, September 24
9:30-12:30, lunch break, 1:30-4:30
Saturday, October 8
9:30-12:30, lunch break, 1:30-4:30
Saturday, December 10
9:30-2:00, includes lunch with group
By submitting this application, applicants give permission for VSA Vermont and/or Baird School staff to contact the non-family member references identified in the application.
Teaching Artist Name:
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To help us evaluate your qualifications for this program, please respond to the following questions. Responses to each question must not exceed 300 words.
1)Please describe a context in which you have worked with or related to individuals who have severe emotional and behavioral challenges.
2)Please describe some challenges that you think teaching artists, schools or arts organizations face in engaging students with severe emotional and behavioral challenges.
3)Tell us about a connection you have made with an individual who had dynamic creativity and emotional or behavioral challenges.
4)Please describe an experience collaborating with a classroom teacher.
5)Tell us how you’ve adapted art forms and practice to engage diverse needs and styles.
6)Describe an experience in which you found value in written reflection, reporting and record keeping.
7)Anything else you’d like to share?
Please list two non-family members who we can contact for references.
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Please send the responses above, as well as an attached resume, to . Due by 4pm August 1, 2016.