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KEYNOTE SESSION 9:00 – 10:30
Welcome: Ian Wilson - Vice President of Academic Affairs
I Sing the Brain Creative: The Neuroscience of Innovation
Presenter: Rex Yung
Session Type: Conference Keynote
MORNING BREAKOUTS 10:50 – 12:30
I Sing the Brain Creative in Harmony: The Neuroscience of Innovation Expanded Through Application in the Arts, Education, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences
Presenters: Rex K. Yung, Daniel Fairbanks, Mark Borchelt, Kate McPherson Session Type: Keynote Panel Breakout/ Discussion
This panel of experts will unpack the keynote presentation and provide application of the research in their specific disciplines and in the education of our K-university students. The presentation by the panel will be followed by discussion with the keynote, Rex Jung, to expand on the implications of this research. The session will also include time for questions from the audience.
ELEMENTARY
Moving, Learning, and Creating Together
Presenters: Holly Markgraf-Mayne, Jana Shumway
Session Type: Workshop / Elementary Dance Focus
Find the magic that happens in a classroom as students investigate solutions to movement problems together, create and perform collaborative compositions based on their explorations, and learn reflective practices through observation and discussion. Participants will be introduced to the dance core curriculum, lesson development, and the methods and strategies to bring this back to the classroom.
First Steps in Teaching the Elementary Drama Core
Presenters: Joe Rogan, Meighan Smith, and Penny Caywood
Session Type: Workshop / Elementary Drama Focus
Three current and former Beverly Taylor Sorensen drama specialists will present some of their best initial approaches for elementary teachers to take the first steps in teaching the state drama curriculum with their own students. The workshop will show teachers how to help their students think and act in character, create and perform dramatic text, and recreate the worlds of their characters.
Inspired Design: Music in the Elementary Classroom
Presenter: Cheung Chau
Session Type: Workshop / Elementary Music Focus
All musical compositions are composed inspired by everyday life subjects, geography, religion, history, science, technology, etc. Not only are great musical compositions inspiring to listen to and are invaluable resources for our well being, they can also serve as educational tools to help us better learn, internalize, remember or understand things we come into contact with in our classrooms and everyday lives.This hands on workshop will provide strategies to bring music to life in the elementary classroom.
Drawing on Collaborative Ideas - Making Art History and Cultural Storytelling Dynamic
Presenter: Monique DeWitt, Lori Santos
Session Type: Workshop / Elementary Visual Arts Focus
Description: Come enjoy an exploration of creative ideas to engage your students with art history and cultural storytelling through collaborative and dynamic projects. Participates will make their own art storyteller buddy and create a collaborative story project that brings art history and cultural stories alive in the classroom.
Engage In a Creative Collaborative Experience: Make a Book
Presenter: Mary Wells –Elementary Visual Arts Focus
Session Type: Workshop / Elementary Visual Arts
View a short DVD explaining the role of collaboration. Create a book richer than anything done on your own by being creative collaborators. Consult the Utah Fine Arts Rainbow Chart for specific skills. Apply the components of creative collaboration and art skills to create a handmade pop-up book. This session provides an opportunity to explore collaboration as an engaging way to learn together. Leave realizing the educators’ role in promoting students’ collaboration skills.
SECONDARY
Questions Without Answers
Presenter: Adeena Lago
Session Type: Dance Workshop / Secondary Dance Focus
This movement session will explore ways to incorporate more improvisation and composition in to our junior high and high school dance classes while working toward concert material. How do we take the time to teach the creative process while trying to meet the demands of a hectic calendar?
Making Shakespeare Current
Presenter: Christopher Clark
Session Type: Workshop / Secondary Drama Focus
Description: Dr. Christopher Clark will present his methods of teaching Shakespeare performance to young actors. He will be joined by members of the Grassroots Shakespeare Company, founded by UVU theatre students and dedicated to making the bard's plays accessible to all audiences and actors.
The Golden Mean and the 50-Minute Choir Rehearsal
Presenter: Dr. Reed Criddle
Session Type: Workshop / Secondary Music Focus
This session will feature the pacing of an award-winning choral ensemble, the UVU Chamber Choir, in a typical 50-minute class. Discussions following this singing demonstration will explore how careful class time management fosters a learning environment of focus, stamina, and collective motivation, while encouraging an integration and retention of knowledge.
Fostering Creative Artistic Behavior through Structure and Flexibility
Presenter: Carrie J Wilson
Session Type: Workshop / Secondary Visual Arts Focus
How, as a teacher of the creative process, do you keep students engaged in learning while letting them choose their individual paths? What are the keys and strategies to maintaining engaged learning, control, and structure in the visual arts classroom. This session will demonstrate and analyze the process that allows for collaboration, creativity, play and flexibility all in one class period. Crazy, but it works and it is fun for the teacher plus the student. Participates will be involved in hands-on experiences.
AFTERNOON BREAKOUTS 1:15 – 2:30
Mad Genius: The Relationship Between Creativity and Psychopathology and other Neuromythologies
Presenter: Rex Yung
Session Type: Keynote Breakout / Discussion
This session will address the relationship between creativity and psychopathology, the socalled "mad genius." Is it myth or reality or something in between. Like most generalizations in the realm of creativity research, a detailed look at the literature reveals some surprising findings. These will be discussed, digested, debated, and finally, designated as worthy of consideration.
ELEMENTARY
Creating and Designing Moving Learning Spaces
Presenters: Holly Markgraf-Mayne, Jana Shumway
Session Type: Workshop / Elementary Dance Integration
Design a learning space with movement mapping using the Utah Elementary Core Curriculum. Explore, discover and learn ways to teach core subjects using the kinesthetic sense to increase student motivation, creativity, memory, and learning. We will share and design actual lessons you can use in the classroom to engage your students in deeper learning in language arts, math, science and social studies through the art of movement while emphasizing creativity and fun. (Everyone can do this. If you can walk you can dance! See you there!)
Orbs, Planets, Stars and Drama: Dramatic Ways of Teaching Science and Writing
Presenter: Eileen Nagle
Session Type: Workshop / Elementary Drama Integration
This workshop will demonstrate how to create plays and reader’s theatre scripts with your students based on historical and contemporary scientific discoveries. The workshop will use the journals of Galileo and images from NASA explorations to prompt improvisation and dramatic writing.
Integrated Languages
Presenter: Michael Sammons
Session Type: Workshop / Elementary Music Integration
This hands-on session will outline musical devices for the enhancement of the language arts through the creation of sound and drumming.
Storytelling Through Light and Shadow
Presenter: Alisa Petersen
Session Type: Workshop / Elementary Visual Arts Integration
Learn how to create characters and tell stories with shadow puppets. Participants will make intricate yet inexpensive puppets and scenery and learn helpful tips for using shadow puppet theater with your students.
How Visual Arts Bring Mathematical Ideas To Life: Sharing Space Through Cultural Artifacts
Presenter: Vessela Ilieva, Ph.D.
Session Type: Workshop / Elementary Visual Arts Integration
This session will engage participants in hands-on activities that integrate traditional visual art forms from different cultures with the learning and practice of mathematics. The engaged learning workshop format will provide opportunities to connect the elementary state Visual arts core and the Mathematics common core in ways not immediately found in textbooks. Participants will learn how to develop and apply in the classroom creative connections of visual art and mathematics in culturally appropriate ways.
SECONDARY
Movement Redefined: Dance and Science as Partners in Learning
Presenter: Adeena Lago
Session Type: Workshop / Secondary Dance Integration
Does integration and collaboration really honor both curriculums? Does one become the vehicle for the other or can they be equal partners in learning? This session will explore the relationship and similarities between the creative process and scientific research that both dance and science share through guided explorations, experimentation, discovery, and the creation of a compositional work that facilitates learning in both areas.
Let the Data Move You: Integrating Digital Technologies in Dance
Presenter: Barton Poulson, Ph.D.
Session Type: Workshop / Secondary Dance Integration
Learn to use the Microsoft Kinect and a computer for video and motion capture of dance. The data can then be manipulated with open-source software (Processing) and projected live or as a separate work. This session introduces dancers to arts technology and science/computing students to creative coding, helping to bridge the disciplines and unite students. Sample code and files are provided for participants' own explorations.
History Recreated: Engaging Students in UT / US History Through Drama
Presenter: Sara Hacken
Session Type: Workshop / Secondary Drama Integration
This session will focus on drama strategies for the secondary classroom that will engage students with historical content. Participants will examine historical thinking strategies using primary sources with simulation games and problem-solving to teach historical empathy. All participants will receive a handout with classroom-ready activities for teaching history.
From Opera to Art Song: A Journey into the Music for the Secondary Student
Presenter: Dr. Tyler Nelson
Session Type: Workshop / Secondary Music Integration
A brief exploration of the world of classical vocal music, from opera to art song. An introduction to some of the ways one might begin to make vocal music more accessible and interesting to the secondary student. The session will make connections with other curricular areas and share strategies to teach a wide range of subjects through music.
Collaborative Arts
Presenter: Pamela Barrios
Session Type: Workshop / Secondary Visual Arts Integration
Description: Contemporary book art echoes the ancient practice of writing sacred texts and binding them into a book. This workshop will provide suggestions for short texts to be made into an accordion structure with a cover. The entire process combines language content, 2-D design of each page, and 3-D design of the entire structure.
PERFORMANCE KEYNOTE 2:40 – 3:15
Welcome: Dr. Newell Daley, Dean of the School of ArtsBrazilian Myths
Presenters: Monique DeWitt, Dr. John Newman, Lori Santos, Doug Smith, Doris Hudson de Trujillo
Session Type: Performance
A collaborative work based on five mythological stories explored and performed through music, dance, drama, and the visual arts. The work will be performed by students and faculty from UVU’s Synergy Dance, Percussion Ensemble, and the Department of Theatrical Arts. Visual art works based on the myths and created by students within the schools will be displayed at the conference.
GENERAL SESSION 3:20 – 4:30
Design, Collaborate, and ReflectPresenters: Rex Jung, Mark Borchelt
Session Type: Workshop / General Session
This general session will be an interactive exploration of the ideas and concepts presented throughout the conference through visual representations of the day, closing remarks by Keynote Rex Jung, and a reflective session led by Mark Borchelt to begin the process of designing collaborative spaces for their classrooms and schools. Participants will have the opportunity to consult with Rex Jung and Mark Borchelt during this session.
