Course Description: The session is designed for educators from all content areas. How to not be just another boring TV show on a screen once the novelty of online learning has worn off?  Learn what worked for one art teacher, her students with significant disabilities, and their families/caregivers.  Strategies for engaging students, encouraging participation, and building a learning community will be shared.

• Participants will identify and share strategies for building an engaging, student-centered, and collaborative online learning community.

• Participants will practice strategies aimed at increasing student participation in an online class.

• Participants will design a new strategy they will be able to implement within their own classes.

Facilitator: Tricia Lane-Forster

Bio:  Tricia Lane-Forster, art educator for Baltimore County Public Schools for 18 years, currently teaches K-12 Art at Ridge Ruxton School, a school for students with significant disabilities. When teaching, she is passionate about authentic mark-making, process and action art, encouraging personal aesthetics and choice, showcasing student work, and celebrating growth.

Key Teaching and Learning Strategies explored in this course: 

• Perception - SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING: With intention, model and develop social-emotional learning competencies. (Relationship Skills)

• Facilitator Role - TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION: Align technology tools to learning goals.

• Artist Communities - BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS: Demonstrate understanding and empathy while building caring relationships that can be leveraged to increase rigor and risk.

To download the full MSDE Fine Arts Office Professional Learning Framework, please click here.