Professional Development
Whether you’re an art teacher looking to hone your skills or an early childhood teacher interested in infusing more open ended art-making into your classroom, we’re here to help make it happen!
Studio-quality art education, training & resources.
The Art of Art Teaching
Being an art teacher is challenging. We teach a wide span of different age groups, manage the flow of various materials & projects throughout the day, and often work in isolation as the only art teacher within the building.
At Scribble, we have built a robust infrastructure of teaching artists, instructional leaders who train and mentor them, and a Director of Teacher Development who oversees all professional development and teacher evaluation.
We work in small cohorts where teaching artists discuss their practice in both practical and theoretical terms to hone specific skills and as a result, grow together into highly effective art educators.
YOU can benefit from this body of work.
In partnering with Scribble to provide your teachers with professional development, we give you access to all the resources we’ve developed for training our own teaching artists including parts of our developmentally-based curriculum, lesson planning templates, reference videos, rubrics for assessment and more.
Here’s what we offer:
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Visual Literacy
How can we use visual literacy activities to support our students’ ability to talk and think about their artistic process before the art-making even begins? This session will focus on developing your students’ observational skills and descriptive language during the mini lesson.Divergent Thinking
How do we encourage divergent thinking practices during an art-making activity? This session will focus on modeling a successful art project for teachers so that they can develop and facilitate similar endeavors in their early childhood classrooms to develop creative thinking skills and strategies.“The Art Show”
How can we “teach” our students to talk about what they’ve made after they’ve finished their project? This session will focus on how to facilitate a mini art show where students can look and talk about their artwork and the work of others. -
Extending Engagement
I’m done with “I’m done”! We can all benefit from a larger tool kit of strategies to expand our students’ attention span and more importantly, make them more intentional about the way in which they work.Differentiation
Depending on how many grades and classes you teach, it helps to limit the number of different projects you’re teaching at one time and focus instead, on how to differentiate a couple of projects across various age groups. We’ll practice adjusting the goals, objectives & materials of ONE project for various ages based on artistic developmental levels.Art Assessment
Grades in art? Why not?!? Art assessment does not have to be an oxymoron. On the contrary, it can help to keep students engaged and focused on achieving their creative goals. We’ll explore in-formal, formal, in-progress & end-of-project assessments that are both teacher & student-led.Questioning & Divergent Thinking
Developing teachers should always question their questioning. We’ll discuss how to incorporate higher order questioning and divergent thinking into your mini lessons so that you’ll have more participation and wide diversity of responses and artwork.Artistic Development
If engagement is the key to management than designing lessons that are developmentally appropriate is the key to engagement. We’ll investigate how lessons can be designed to fall within the zone of proximal development. -
Individualized 1-1 coaching for art teachers either online or in person
Professional Development Series for groups of teachers
In-person training can include art-making for all participants *we encourage this option, teachers like to make art!
All training takes place either online or in-person at your school or community organization. Trainings include handouts and/or PDFs of resources + a recording (if online).
What educators are saying about our programs:
“Art educator development often isn’t on the forefront of school districts’ minds, leaving art teachers hungry for a hands on experience to tone our creative muscles. Scribble’s approach to art education focuses on problem solving through material exploration, which is exactly what my team of art teachers needed! Working with Kayla has been inspiring and an awesome refresh of how to get young artists thinking critically about materials and their applications.
My team and I have already been implementing projects & techniques inspired from these workshops and are loving the results from our young artists!”
– Georgi Michaelessi, Visual Arts Teacher & Department Lead at Brilla Veritas