Overview
How can art be used to develop student growth in literacy skills? This self-paced online course explores methods for integrating art and literacy strategies to support North Carolina’s Literacy Instruction Standards across classrooms. Participants gain an understanding of how literacy is defined through a variety of lenses and apply their learning by developing a lesson plan.
Strategies that incorporate NCMA works of art are used to practice and apply activities to build interpretive and expressive modes of literacy focused on a variety of reading materials, comprehension, vocabulary building, and writing.
Educators will:
- be able to define literacy through a variety of disciplinary lenses.
- be able to recognize opportunities and practice strategies for integrating art and literacy instruction that support NC Literacy Instruction Standards.
- design a lesson or a set of lessons that support literacy through arts integration based on the needs of educators’ classrooms.
- reflect within a collaborative peer learning community and create curricular connections with the North Carolina Museum of Art’s collection.
This course is designed for teachers of all disciplines and audiences. A certificate of participation for 20 hours will be provided for literacy, general, or content area credits (2 CEU, with prior approval from the local school system).
Image: Clarence Heyward, Everything Is Everything, 2022, acrylic and variegation leaf on canvas, 48 × 30 in., Purchased with funds from the William R. Roberson Jr. and Frances M. Roberson Endowed Fund for North Carolina Art