Early Career Teaching Institute

This session will examine the teaching practices and pedagogy of the legendary performer and teacher Arnold Jacobs. We will discuss how his studio teaching and philosophies can be applied in classroom music settings. We will also discuss the implications of Arnold Jacobs's pedagogies as a lens for future curriculum in school music settings.

Learning Goals

• Relate the artistic mindset to curricular design.
• Discuss participants mentors and experiences that center artistic motivation in their teaching.
• Discuss strategies for incorporating this concept into teaching practice.

Are your students the next Ken Burns? Or future video journalists? Students' lives are increasingly saturated with media and the barriers to creating media are lower than ever. Media making is an essential part of media literacy. Using a variety of free resources, we will discuss tips on implementing media making into your lessons with little or no technology required.

Learning Goals

• Participants will learn the value of media creation in the classroom.
• Participants will learn the skills required to design and implement basic media projects.
• Participants will come away with free resources to assist with their youth media lessons.

This workshop uses Elena Aguilar's book Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators (2018) as a springboard to reflect and build practices to sustain educators in the profession. In this workshop, participants will reflect on the emotional components of teaching and the affordances and limitations of their current habits and practices. This reflection will include grappling with the complex and challenging structures and systems educators work within that often impact the ability to take care of oneself. Then, they will examine strategies and practices intended to cultivate emotional resilience. The practice section will include engaging in some mindfulness exercises and a look at the research on combating compassionate fatigue. Finally, participants will create individualized goals related to how they will build their emotional resilience in the next school year.

Learning Goals

• Participants will engage in reflection on the emotional components of teaching and the affordances and limitations of their current habits and practices.
• Participants will examine strategies and practice strategies intended to cultivate emotional resilience, including short mindfulness exercises and a look at the research on compassionate fatigue.
• Participants will create individualized goals related to how they will build their emotional resilience in the next school year.