Keynote: The Journal Fodder Junkies

"Paradigm Shift in the Arts: Pulling together traditional and contemporary pedagogical practices"
with David R. Modler & Eric M. Scott

Are you simply teaching students to follow directions in order to have a successful PRODUCT? Or are you teaching them to find their own direction through a creative PROCESS? The Journal Fodder Junkies explore the idea of the student as creator and how teachers play a pivotal role in developing the conceptual, stylistic, and contextual concerns of young artists, musicians, actors, and dancers. By eschewing cookie-cutter, recipe-like approaches, this shift in pedagogy encourages students to develop authentic modes of expression through their engagement and individual pursuit of the creative process. Discussions will center on how to treat students as creative collaborators and artists in their own right as a way of enhancing student learning, promoting higher levels of thinking and innovation, and integrating the skills that will allow students to compete in an ever-changing future.

Your students can benefit too!

Students participate in the Spotlight by participating in collective mural painting with EN MASSE for the MASSES. Contact your board's art consultant to find out more! This year, teachers are also invited to participate, after taking part in a mini-workshop about collective art-making.

Our special thanks to:

Brault et Bouthiller
Livres Babar
Paragraph Books
Segal Centre
CSEA
DEEN
MELS
LEARN
Twigg

Preliminary Schedule