DISCOVERING CONCEPT-BASED ARTS
Reimagining art, music, drama, and dance instruction through a
Concept-Based Inquiry lens
* 6-Week Online Course for arts educators
Are you...
Frustrated with the lack of availability of Concept-Based professional development?
Feeling like you’ve wasted lifetimes sitting through planning meetings that do not apply to arts education?
Feeling alone or out on a limb as one of the only arts educators you know?
In a curriculum leadership position, but need help with how to guide the professional development of your specialized arts team?
Struggling to write arts units that actually mean something?
Struggling to plan a unit at all?
This is an intensive 6-week online course for those looking to learn to create engaging units and lesson plans that feature active arts learning and use skills as the foundation for transferrable understandings - helping students take their arts learning into their lives and into the world.
DISCOVERING CONCEPT-BASED ARTS
Reimagining art, music, drama, and dance instruction through a
Concept-Based Inquiry lens
* 6-Week Online Course for Arts educators
STARTS APRIL 3rd, 2023
Are you ...
Frustrated with the lack of availability of Concept-Based professional development?
Feeling like you’ve wasted lifetimes sitting through planning meetings that do not apply to arts education?
Feeling alone or out on a limb as one of the only arts educators you know?
In a curriculum leadership position, but need help with how to guide the professional development of your specialized arts team?
Struggling to write arts units that actually mean something?
Struggling to plan a unit at all?
This is an intensive 6-week online course for those looking to learn to create engaging units and lesson plans that feature active arts learning and use skills as the foundation for transferrable understandings - helping students take their arts learning into their lives and into the world.
Do you want...
Relevant PD that makes arts learning exciting and inspiring for your students?
A global community of like-minded thought partners to connect with and be inspired by?
A practical approach to curriculum design and development?
To see your student’s ideas come alive and translate across other areas in their lives?
Discovering Concept-Based Arts Instruction is a comprehensive, step-by-step course designed by an arts educator FOR arts educators and arts-supportive curriculum leaders.
This course provides helpful frameworks and numerous arts-based examples and offers specific and accessible application ideas to help you create Concept-Based, inquiry-driven learning in your arts classroom.
Do you want...
Relevant PD that makes arts learning exciting and inspiring for your students?
A global community of like-minded thought partners to connect with and be inspired by?
A practical approach to curriculum design and development?
To see your student’s ideas come alive and translate across other areas in their lives?
Discovering Concept-Based Arts Instruction is a comprehensive, step-by-step course designed by an arts educator FOR arts educators and arts-supportive curriculum leaders.
This course provides helpful frameworks and numerous arts-based examples and offers specific and accessible application ideas to help you create Concept-Based, inquiry-driven learning in your arts classroom.
About Your Course Facilitator
Nyssa Brown is an international arts education consultant who works with educators around the globe to build student-centered, Concept-Based, inquiry-driven arts curriculum. Nyssa served on the writing committee for the National Core Arts Standards and is an Erickson and Lanning Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Certified Trainer. With 25 years of teaching experience with both students and adults, Nyssa empowers learners of all ages to build on their current knowledge and envision new possibilities.
If you value understanding and transfer-based learning, Nyssa will show you how to up-level your arts units to take arts learning to the next level in your classroom.
You will learn to:
Create transferrable, conceptual understandings that guide arts teaching and learning.
Scaffold inquiry through guiding questions and the Concept-Based Inquiry Cycle.
Create backward-designed units that align big-picture learning, assessments, and day-to-day classroom experiences.
Through this 6-week course, you will discover…
How a Concept-Based Inquiry approach enhances and strengthens teaching and learning in the arts.
The step-by-step process of creating Concept-Based units of study in arts classrooms.
A framework for considering when units of study should be interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary.
The phases of Concept-Based Inquiry as they apply specifically to arts teachers.
How self-reflection and artist statements can be used as tools for demonstrating understanding and assessment.
Answers to the most frequently asked questions and stumbling blocks on the road to designing Concept-Based Inquiry units in the arts.
When you enroll in Discovering Concept-Based Arts Instruction, here’s what you’ll be getting...
Six weeks of carefully designed learning modules, including video lessons (Value: €600)
Weekly group coaching calls, offered in two times zones (Value: €1000)
A 45-minute private coaching session with Nyssa Brown to receive personalized feedback on a unit plan that you’ve designed for your own classroom (Value: €400)
Digital Resource Bank (templates, arts-specific content, and examples),
A Group Forum to ask questions, make connections and build that global community you’ve been seeking.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Online Self-Paced Learning
Live Group Lessons Via ZOOM
Group Forum
Online Self-Paced Learning
Live Group Lessons Via ZOOM
Group Forum
THE INVESTMENT
If purchased individually, these items will total over €2000, but when you enroll in Discovering Concept-Based Arts Instruction, you will receive everything listed for just €650!
*Groups of five or more participants from the same school receive a €50 discount per person.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
3. Do I need to have studied Concept-Based Inquiry before?
This custom-designed course will build from the ground up, so no prior knowledge of Concept-Based is required.
4. What is the weekly time commitment?
Everyone works at a different pace, but we imagine it will take about 1.5 hours per week.
The final 1-1 coaching call is 45 min.
5. What do I need to participate?
Internet access to stream videos and access the course content.
6. Are there any prerequisites for this course?
The course costs €650 per teacher, and we also have multiple-teacher and whole-school discounts. Enroll now to take advantage of our Early Bird Special (before March 3, 2023) and save €50 per participant!
When do registrations close?
Registrations for A Closer Look at Process Across Disciplines will end on Friday, January 15th, 2023.
What date does the course start?
The course starts on Friday January 20th, 2023.
What is the time commitment?
The video modules, reflections, and readings will take you between one and two hours a week and the weekly group Zoom call is one hour.
The course assignment is to design your own unit this may be completed independently or with a team of teachers from your school.
The final 1-1 coaching call is 45 min.
What if I can't join the live calls?
First weekly call option is:
Sunday 7:00 pm NZT
Sunday 2:00 pm Jakarta
Sunday 11:00 am Dubai
Sunday 9:00 am Frankfurt
Second weekly call option is:
Monday 9:00 am NZT
Monday 4:00 am Jakarta
Monday 1:00 am Dubai
Sunday 11:00 pm Frankfurt
The calls are highly recommended but they are optional. Attendance is not required for course completion. All of the course material is pre-recorded videos that can be watched at anytime.
Please note, these can change with daylight savings. We will be in touch if they do change.