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Penland #39;s Teaching Artist Initiative Slideshow
Penland #39;s Community Collaboration program works closely with Mitchell County Public School teachers and principals to personalize student learning with artistic expression. The Teaching Artist in the Schools program deepens a student #39;s connection with school curriculum through bookmaking. Each year, Penland #39;s Teaching Artist, Meg Peterson, instructs on average 500 rurally-based 3rd, 4th, and 10th grade students in painting, folding, binding, illustrating, collaging, and writing in handmade books. The books support a specific unit of study and incorporate reflection and evaluation sessions that reinforce vital life lessons. Our goal is to craft powerful and creative learning experiences that support personal development. Art making deepens human experience cultivating connections among increasingly isolated facets of life and learning. This video is a compilation of third and fourth grade students and their teachers working throughout the 2011-2012 school year with Penland School of Crafts Teaching Artist, Ms. Meg Peterson. Music by Wes Stitt. Our programs are designed to promote the following experiences which we believe are embedded in the artistic practice: Guiding Artistic Practices in Our Work - Making meaningful connections - Establishing a community of discovery - Imagining and responding - Fostering wonder, joy and satisfaction - Encouraging sensory and emotional absorption - Taking purposeful risks - Practicing persistence and discipline - Learning new skills ...From:PenlandSchoolViews:2 1ratingsTime:02:49More inEducation

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