Our workshops are designed to provide teaching and performing artists tools and resources that they can utilize to engage students and educators.
Upcoming workshops
YA Network TA Professional Learning Opportunity: Building the Core Competencies of TA Practice
YA National and Arts for Learning Virginia are pleased to invite YA network teaching artists to professional learning opportunities this summer, designed and facilitated by fellow network teaching artists who have received the YA National Teaching Artist Credential. This interactive online learning series will offer practical strategies that TAs of all experience levels and arts disciplines can readily apply to their work in school and community settings. The sessions will include time for application and discussion, allowing opportunities to connect and network with peer artists from across the country.
The three online sessions will center on the four competency areas of the Credential: Planning, Preparation, Instruction, and Artistry:
• Designing a High Quality Lesson Plan: August 5, 4:00-6:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time)
• Best Practices for Instruction: August 12, 4:00-6:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Teaching Artist Community Chat (an open conversation that will include discussion of the artistry competency): August 13, 4:00-5:30 p.m. (EDT)
Attending all three sessions is recommended, but not required.
This series is free and open to all Young Audiences network teaching artists. However, space is limited, so seats will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. Arts for Learning TAs should contact Aisha Noel for more information on how to register!
Past workshops
Being Your Own Producer
This workshop will help teaching and performing artists make the most of their equipment space, and look (lighting!) in their chosen performance space.
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Audience: Teaching & Performing Artists
Presenter(s): Aaron Kirkpatrick & Rob Holmes
Date: Tuesday, June 08, 2021
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (EST)
Program support is provided by Arts for Learning Virginia, Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Welcome to the Front Row: Exploring Four Tiers of Virtual Engagement
This workshop will introduce teaching and performing artists to tools and resources that they can utilize to engage students in a virtual setting.
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Audience: Teaching & Performing Artists
Presenter(s): Sheila Arnold, Wilfred Paloma, & Arielle Siler
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:45 pm (EST)
This program is a collaboration between Arts for Learning Virginia, Arts for Learning San Diego, and Artists Standing Strong Together.
Program support is provided by Arts for Learning Virginia, Arts for Learning San Diego, Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
