HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-09-03, Page 4Art consultant. is an administrative '
position with responsibility for co-ordinatilig
art programs for all art taught in the schools
within that beard's jurisclid14:
The consultant will assist the teacher who
has'no art experience set up a viable creative
prograM suited to the level -of the children
he/she is teaching.
}futon !and Bruce Counties have no '
such as Waterloo
CoUnty Board of Pducation have consultants
in all subject areas: primary methods,
mathematics, reading, physical education,
art, music, special education.
The local teachers who took, part in the
Course will take °back, their, knowledge to
apply it in their own classrooms, but children
throughout Huron and Bruce counties will
not benefit, because there are no consultants
in the two counties:_
A similar program is being offered
through a course in special edutation at
Kingsbridge St. Joseph's School in the fall.
Area teachers also attended a similar .
course in primary teaching methods offered
at Walkerton .in July. Teachers • who
participated were Louise Wilson, Janet
Blanchette and Shelley Worsen, all on ,staff'':
at at Brookside Public School..
Several area '.teachers participated a
visual arts'course offered this summer in
Walkerton which.4aveLthern the' Widest
possible,-eiposure and experience in Media
aci
d technig4' he programconsisted of two parts and
was. offered through the auspices of the
University of Western ..:.Ontario—ohd the
M-.-Ith'nicsatrlY:siea°t'c*2herdlls whoc4tibn. took;h.
m
course in July included Mary Kahan, Mary
Day, ,Deidre Graham and Janet
'The teachers'Were exposed to a variety of
media and techniques including 'ceramics,
sculpture, picture making, weaving, pup
petry; and print making. The course also
considered child development and its rela.
tion to teaching methods. '
'Each of the''teaehers prepared plans for a
unit of study or a year of study, which would
include seven or eight units. Most of the
participants took the course to, broaden their
scope in art educatibn and all were
classroom* teachers, * One, of the teachers
participating in the Program teaches,art as
an elective every morning of i a six day cycle.
The two courses offered in Walkerton are
the first 'and: second parts of *a three part
' course required ' to, qualify as an art
consultant for a board of-education.
LOcat :teachers participated in :a. visual arts course' offered :in Walkerton' ditrint:July.
Designed to' give teachers the widest possible' iPerience in media and technique, the course
Included exposure- to ceramics: sculpturerpieture:Lmaking-i-wesivingi:-.puppetry- and-print—
joking. An Open house was held inviting the public to view the work, reated by the tetteherti
' during 'the course. Here Deidre Graham,, a grade four teacher at Brookside Public Scht401,
shows Leisa Rau of LucknOW' how to make an elephant marionette from 'newspaper; a
cardboard. box and a slin4,coll. [Sentinel Staff Photo]
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Teacher* 'taking a lifts "course in Walkerton "this "ritnitine'r "tihiplayed 'their work .on'
bulletin boards at.an open house attended by the public. The course offered.exposure to print
and pieture making, ceramica, PUppetry, sand Sculpture and weaving. This board shows the
work of Deldre Graham, a grade four teacher at Brookside Public School, who took, the
course, everal area teachers attended the visual arts course and a primary teaching
methods course also offered in 'Walkerton. [Sentinel Staff.Photo]