Online Course: Art and Literacy

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. Strategies that incorporate the use of 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 Literacy Instruction Standards.
• design a lesson or set of lessons that support literacy through arts integration based on the needs of your classroom.
• reflect within a collaborative peer learning community and create curricular connections with the NCMA’s collection.

This course is designed for teachers of all disciplines and audiences. A certificate of participation for 20 hours will be provided (2 CEUs, 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