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 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’ classroom
• 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 10 hours will be provided (1 CEU, with prior approval from the local school system).

Image: John Thomas Biggers, Untitled, 1994, oil on canvas, 40 1/4 × 40 1/4 in., Purchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)