Inservices for Teachers K-8
Day Long Workshops for Educators*

Roger Kukes, an Adjunct Professor at Seattle Pacific University and
Visiting Professor at Portland State University, can show you how to build skills and integrate art with any subject. Choose among these day long experiences designed to help teachers understand art's power to motivate, inspire and teach.

Integrating the Visual Arts
  • Discover the building blocks of images: line, shape, color, pattern.
  • Learn "failproof" drawing techniques that anyone can learn and anyone can teach.
  • Learn to connect art and drawing with any subject.
  • Experience arts unique ability to teach craftsmanship, decision making and persistence.
  • Walk away with "ready to teach" projects that meet multiple art/core curriculum benchmarks.
Connecting Art and Mathematics
  • Discover simple art materials that enliven the teaching of mathematics.
  • Enrich students' mathematical problem solving abilities while teaching creativity, craftsmanship and persistence.
  • Use drawing, watercolor and printmaking to explore a variety of mathematical ideas including number sense, measurement, patterns, graphing, geometry/spatial thinking and more.
  • Walk away with "ready to teach" projects that meet multiple art/math benchmarks.
Enriching Science Through Art
  • Use drawing, animation and watercolor to explore a variety of scientific concepts and ideas.
  • Learn to combine art's creativity and craftsmanship with science's emphasis on objectivity and logic.
  • Explore ingenious ways that art materials can stimulate scientific inquiry.
  • Walk away with "ready to teach" projects that meet multiple art/science benchmarks.
Drawing and Writing-Natural Partners
  • Learn simple drawing techniques that anyone can learn and anyone can teach.
  • Discover the similarities between the writing process and the drawing process.
  • Use picture books to inspire student illustrators and authors.
  • Discover the critical link between improved drawing and enriched writing: detail.
  • Use drawing as a source of ideas for writing.
  • Walk away with "ready to teach" projects that meet multiple art/language arts benchmarks.

*Can be presented as a day long experience for all staff, or as two half
day workshops-one for primary teachers and the other for intermediate
teachers.
Prices: Please Inquire