Art In Response to Our Teachers’ Need to Heal – Exploring Teachers’ Social/Emotional Needs Today
FREE for educators; registration required
Photo credit: One Tree Center
Daily, educators are called to teach to the “whole child,” yet how do we stay rooted to our authentic whole selves in the process? In this experiential Zoom workshop, educators will explore the power of art to respond to their needs as multidimensional whole teachers, while also responding to their students’ needs. Teachers have an opportunity to self-reflect on their whole selves and gather social/emotional intelligence tools in staying rooted in who they are as they face the challenges of education today. The creative strategies gathered in this workshop can be applied, both in their own personal lives, as well as their classrooms, to better support their students’ whole identities.
This workshop is one of many in Virginia’s A.I.R. Project. For more information, please visit her website here.
Photo credit: Maine Magazine
Virginia Dearani, M.A. Ed. is currently a full-time Lecturer at UMF in the Early Childhood and Elementary Education Program and completing her Doctoral Studies in Literacy/Curriculum Design at UMO. As a multi-dimensional woman, she has learned to navigate the world of teaching and learning with a perspective of pluralism, honoring the both/and in all her relations. Throughout the past 25+ years, Virginia has centered her life’s work in the areas of cross-cultural pedagogy and peace education for children 3 years through adulthood. She defines her teaching and learning approach as Embodied Radical Love Education and is an Interdisciplinary Curriculum Designer for Early Childhood through 8th grade classrooms. She has created many curriculums for young children, school-aged, teens, parents and professionals on topics including: Radical Love in Action; Intuitive Teaching; Being a Whole Teacher; Creative Arts as a Vehicle for Social Change; Equity Literacy; Media Literacy; Multiple Intelligence Theory and Practice; Power, Privilege, and Difference; Embodied Liberation in the Classroom; and Partnership Education. She emphasizes the joy of partnering with children and youth to create communities of belonging, needed in our world today. She resides in Auburn, ME where she commits to playing daily with her two young boys and husband.
Evenings for Educators is made possible by the Beatrice Gilmore Endowment Fund for Museum Education at the Portland Museum of Art.