Online Teacher Workshop

ART for the School Librarian Workshop

Workshop Start Date: Class Starts February 15, 2012 Enroll Today

4 week non-credit workshop

12 hours overall

School librarians are a lot like teachers and lately they are becoming a lot like art teachers. Budget cuts in the Arts and expanded responsibilities have changed the role of the School Librarian.

Duties include:

Teaching children, teens, and teachers to find important resources and how to document them.

They introduce their library visitors to the world of books and authors. Sometimes they do this through innovative means like incorporating art projects into learning or bringing an artist or author into the learning environment through a real life visit.

School Librarians teach literacy and work with ESL students. Art can be a tool in this effort.

Special requests from teachers for art ideas or books that illuminate a particular subject or holiday are not foreign to this group of librarians.

Summer Reading Programs are a part of the repertoire of the School Librarian duties.

School Libraries are expected to showcase books, holidays and other learning environments in a creative way.

Have you ever been asked to do a library art exhibit as a School Librarian?

It’s the School Librarians job to locate the best in art resources online.

This class will help you gain confidence in your role as teacher, artist, and librarian.

This 4 week workshop is entirely online and facilitated by an experienced

art professor. It provides an opportunity for networking with others

with your similar interests and an art expert.

Recommendations from a previous Arts and Crafts for Youth Librarians Workshop taught by Art Teacher on the Net

In working on this workshop I have worked also on my Summer Reading Program for our library. Week 3 gave so many ideas to use that it was fun to do them and discover which ones would work well for our young patrons. I now have crafts for at least 2 of the 4 books we will read in my Youth Discussion Group. I am well ahead of the game.

I really enjoyed answering the questions about the piece of art in the museum. I want to use some of the questions I learned this summer when we read "Chasing Vermeer" because the book deals with a piece of art.

Thanks for all the help with one of my books for the Summer Reading Program.

Well, I had not thought about bonding art and books together in one reading hour before, so I got new and interesting views of what to do. Thank you for the wonderful ideas.
I had a great time brainstorming ideas and reading the suggestions everyone had!
I feel I learned how to study a painting in more depth. That a painting is made up of many facets. The lines, colors and textures all blend together to make one painting.

I gained lots of great ideas from everyone. The ideas were great and I will incorporate some of them into my programs.

I will keep a copy of the different things I have learned in this session of the class to apply it to painting I encounter. It is exciting.

I bookmarked several of the sites presented in the lessons which will come in handy when I get stuck for ideas. It also helps reading the other's experiences in working with library patrons in crafts events.

Finding ideas are hard to find and this is a wealth of information for myself and the library.

Thank you very much for the wonderful and interesting web-sites, you mentioned. There are so great ideas.

I was delighted to find some new web sites for inspiration - many of my students love to draw and I hope to integrate some of the cartoon drawing lessons in to our weekly book club meetings, possibly in the creation of bookmarks, etc.

It has been great having so much information all in one place. I enjoyed browsing through the many websites & links. Many are new to me. I appreciate all of your suggestions for organization, supplies, storage, recycling, and art tips & resources.

Where do I begin! I have learned about so many resources. I really liked the online scavenger hunt, what a great idea. I also really loved the letter writing with beads.

This week gave me a great many resources to use in our library. I really had to think for the scavenger hunt but I love the idea and did work our a hunt. I also thought the "wanted" poster was fun as well . . .

There really are a wealth of information and ideas to explore.

I would recommend this class to others. After all I took this class because my supervisor recommended it to me.

Valerie Colston, M.A. author of "200 Projects to Strengthen Your Art" (Released April 1, 2008) is the developer and presenter of the

workshop. She has been teaching art and art history classes for

several years in San Diego, California and online. Her award winning

Art Teacher on the Net is visited by teachers around the world.

Along with teaching Ms. Colston was an art project consultants for the Wyland Foundation Oceans Teacher program, and has taught many 100 Art ideas for Teachers workshops at the University of California, San Diego Extension.

For more information contact Valerie Colston at art259@hotmail.com

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