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Strengthening 21st Century Skills through Art: A Teacher Institute

JUL 17-19, 2017, 8:30AM-3:00PM

Discover strategies for enhancing 21st century skills—critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity—through art and explore activities that integrate art with humanities themes.

Who: 3rd–8th Grade Generalist or Humanities Teachers

When: July 17–19, 2017, 8:30 a.m.–3 p.m.

Where: The Hammer Museum and the Broad Art Center at UCLA (Room 2101)

Cost: FREE tuition. In addition:

  • Participating teachers from Title I schools located within a 15-mile radius of the Hammer Museum are eligible to receive subsidized bus transportation for one field trip to the museum or Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden during the 2017-18 school year.
  • LAUSD teachers will be eligible for 1 LAUSD salary point. In order to meet LAUSD’s salary point requirements, there are additional required assignments outside of attending the teacher institute, including developing an arts-integrated unit and creating a lesson for before, during, and after a field trip to the Hammer Museum. 

This teacher institute is organized by the Hammer Museum and the Visual and Performing Arts Education Program (VAPAE) in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Participants in this workshop will:

  • Learn how to enhance students’ critical thinking, communication, and evidence-based reasoning skills through inquiry-based discussions about works of art.
  • Explore strategies for identifying and applying personal, curricular, and sociopolitical themes and concepts in a variety of artworks and art forms.
  • Develop lesson ideas that integrate the arts and humanities and align with select English Language Arts Common Core standards and 21st century skills.
  • Actively engage in collaborative creative art-making processes.
  • Enhance confidence in leading students on a trip to an art museum with a subsidized bus

This institute is designed for 3rd-8th grade generalist and humanities teachers at a Title I school. Since capacity is limited, priority will be given to generalist and teachers of humanities subjects. To RSVP, email academicprograms@hammer.ucla.edu with your name, email, school, school district, and subject(s) and grade level(s) you teach.

The first and third day of this three-day institute will take place at the Hammer Museum. The second day will take place at the Broad Art Center and Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden on the UCLA campus. The Hammer Museum is located at 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024. The Broad Art Center is located at 240 Charles E. Young Drive, Suite 2101, Los Angeles, CA 90095.