Love of Learning: National Gallery of Art Teacher Workshops

TEACHER WORKSHOPS AND SCHOOL TOURS

Haiku as Verbal Sketching
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
4:00–6:30 p.m.
To register, call (202) 842-6796 or email teacher@nga.gov
Registration fee: $10

Explore practical strategies for connecting poetry and art through a creative interplay of word and image. Instructors demonstrate how to compose haiku using works of art to elicit a poetic feeling or image that may be captured through sensory language and verse. After engaging the artwork through careful observation, description, and written interpretation, workshop participants edit and refine their haiku through a collaborative process. This interdisciplinary workshop is ideally suited to any educator seeking to strengthen student skills in visual analysis, creative writing, editing, and critical judgment.

www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/education/teachers/teacher-workshops.html (Teacher Workshops Information)
www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/education/teachers/teacher-workshops/registration-form.html (Registration Form)

Using Visual Art to Write Monologues
Saturday, March 1, 2014
10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
To register, call (202) 842-6796 or email teacher@nga.gov
Registration fee: $10

National award-winning playwright, director, and educator Mary Hall Surface models ways to help students imagine, improvise, and write monologues based on works of visual art. Teachers discover how to look beyond the surface of an image to search for the deeper meaning, or subtext, of a narrative or character. This cross-curricular workshop is particularly well suited to teachers of language arts and drama in middle and high school.

www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/education/teachers/teacher-workshops.html (Teacher Workshops Information)
www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/education/teachers/teacher-workshops/registration-form.html (Registration Form)

Winter and Spring School Tours

The National Gallery of Art is currently accepting school tour requests for dates through June 6, 2014. Please note that all school tours will take place in the West Building.

Thematic, docent-led tours for students in kindergarten through grade 12 are structured to encourage close observation, foster an open exchange of ideas, and cultivate connections between art and life.

Slowing down to look carefully at a few works of art, students have the opportunity to think creatively and critically. They question, puzzle, reason with evidence, and compare and connect. Most powerfully, they develop their own interpretations and ideas about works of art. Docents consult closely with teachers to ensure that tours enhance, support, and extend classroom learning and curriculum objectives.

www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/education/teachers/school-tours.html (School Tours Information)
www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/education/teachers/school-tours/schedule.html (Schedule a School Tour)