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These workshops provide new insight and perspectives on specific subjects and offer new educational resources and tools for educators. The workshops focus on the arts, science, history and character education. The museum is a registered Professional Development provider. A certificate of completion is provided to all participants.
Professional Development Workshops take place on Thursday evenings. Pre-registration is required for each workshop. To register, please call 973-971-3710. Program prices include resource materials, classroom activities, and a light dinner. Payment is required at the time of registration.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
4:30-6 PM
FREE
Discover the Morris Museum! Learn about the diverse programming opportunities for the students: pre-K to high school, including exhibition programs, theatre performances, outreach programs, and the museum loan program. Staff from the Morris Museum will be on hand to provide more information, provide tours of current exhibits, and help you realize new educational opportunities. Participants will receive exclusive discounts that can be applied to programs booked after the date of this open house.
Thursday Jan. 12. 2012
4:30-7:30pm $50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Peg McAulay Byrd, NJ Artist
This unique and fun workshop combines visual sensibilities with words. Explore written impressions with pre-selected visual images, as Peg McAulay Byrd guides participants in shaping responses to create several poems with the help of music or meditation. Educators will respond to visual materials with expressive words to produce poetry both individually and communally. Techniques learned in this workshop are long-lasting and teachers will enjoy continuing the process of creating poetry painted words with students of all ages.
Visual & Perf. Arts Standards (2009): 1.1.D, 1.3.D, 1.4.A, 1.4.B
Language Arts Literacy Standards (2004): 3.3-3.5
Thursday, February 2, 2012
4:30-7:30 PM
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenters: Leah Nahmias, MA, History Educator, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, CUNY Graduate Center; and Donna Thompson Ray, Ph.D. Candidate, Project Director, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, CUNY Graduate Center
Educators will be introduced to HERB, a new free online database of over 1,000 primary sources, teaching activities, and other resources for teaching U.S. history. Many of the primary sources and activities feature text support to help special education and ESL/ELL students. Educators will learn the types of resources that they will find in HERB, how to navigate the database to find documents, and how to keep up with new materials as they are added to HERB. This session will focus on materials related to slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War in 2011. Teaching strategies will be modeled to help students of all ages understand primary source documents and answer the question: “Who freed the slaves in the Civil War?”
Social Studies Standards (2009): 6.1.A, 6.1.C, 6.1.D
Technological Literacy Standards (2004): 8.1.B
Language Arts Literacy Standards (2004): 3.1, 3.2, 3.5
Thursday, February 9, 2012
4:30-7:30 PM
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Eric Hafen, Artistic Director, Morris Musuem's Bickford Theatre
Experiment with a variety of theater games and exercises that will help create an innovative classroom environment. This workshop focuses on activities designed to enhance the creative thought process and creative expression of students Educators will learn practical exercises in movement, visual and audio awareness, as well as methodology to stimulate the imagination of their students. These exercises may be applied to any academic subject and grade level.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards (2009): 1.1.C, 1.3.C
Consumer, Family, and Life Skills Standards (2004): 9.2.D
Comprehensive Health & Physical Education Standards (2004): 2.5
Thursday, March 8, 2012
4:30-7:30 PM
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Vernoy Paolini, enrichment teacher of 37 years, Lounsberry Hollow Middle School; Vice President of the Council of Holocaust Educators; President of the Diversity Council at Kean University
This workshop introduces strategies, ideas, and activities that can be customized to a specific age and population to raise awareness of prejudices and discriminatory behavior. It demonstrates the progression from behavior associated with bullies to the atrocities of genocide, including the Holocaust. Strategies will be provided for use in the classroom to educate any grade level.
Social Studies Standards (2009): 6.3.A
Language Arts Literacy Standards (2004): 3.1-3.5
Consumer, Family, and Life Skills Standards (2004): 9.2.D
Thursday, March 22, 2012
4:30-7:30 PM
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Maria Lupo, MFA, MA, ATR, Healing Arts Coordinator /Registered Art Therapist, Atlantic Health System
Educators will participate in an experiential art therapy workshop on the therapeutic use of the creative arts in the classroom to improve self-awareness and build social skills in students. Models for resiliency, relaxation, and stress reduction will be explored and discussed. Techniques learned in this workshop are applicable in classroom settings and beyond. All art materials will be included.
Visual and Performing Arts Standards (2009): 1.1.D, 1.3.D, 1.4.A, 1.4.B
Consumer, Family, and Life Skills Standards (2004): 9.2.D
Thursday, March 29, 2012
4:30-7:30 PM
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Penny Jones, Recycling Education Specialist, Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority
Planet Earth is “Home Sweet Home” for all human beings, and frequent nurturing of the planet is required to ensure its continuing to be a “sweet” place (reality check: there truly are some places on Earth that are far from “sweet”). One way to nurture, a way that is required by law in New Jersey, is to recycle. Educators will discuss recycling, waste prevention, re-use, trash and household hazardous waste disposal, composting, and litter abatement, all of which are integrally related. Participants will also be introduced to activities and helpful resources for educators who want to encourage their students to acquire good Earth-keeping habits. The frosting on the cake: All attendees will be introduced to Penny’s pet dung beetle named Sarah—she’s an amazing recycler!
Science Standards (2009): 5.1.A, 5.1.D, 5.3.C, 5.4.C, 5.4.G
Social Studies Standards (2009): 6.3.B
Thursday, May 3, 2012
4:30-7:30 PM
$50 per teacher
Workshop Presenter: Dr. Steve Okulewicz, Professor of Geology at the College of Staten Island and Hofstra University
Educators will enjoy a multi-media lecture, which will explore and examine the variety of rocks that make up the bedrock of New Jersey including the formation of the Watchung Ridges to the west, the folded rocks of the Appalachians in the northwest, and the Cretaceous sediments to the south. The discovery and significance of the first dinosaur in New Jersey, Hadrosaurus foulkii, will also be discussed.
Language Arts Literacy Standards (2004): 3.3, 3.4
Science Standards (2009): 5.1.A, 5.1.B, 5.1.D, 5.4.B, 5.4.C, 5.4.D
Thursday, May 10, 2012
4:30-7:30 PM
$50 per teacher
Workshop presenters: Heather Gilliland, LDT-C, Assistant Principal at P.G. Chambers School, and staff members from P.G. Chambers School
This interactive workshop will provide educators with easy to use movement strategies that will foster smooth transitions, alert or relax students, and increase daily readiness for learning. Applications for classroom behavior, attention, language, body awareness and motor skills will be emphasized. Each presenter will share insights from his/her discipline as well as their strategies for collaboration in Physical Education and the classroom.
Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standards (2004): 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 2.6
Consumer, Family, and Life Skills Standards (2004): 9.2.D
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