Opportunities

The National Gallery of Art announces its first-ever Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): “Teaching Critical Thinking through Art”, now open for enrollment. Designed for educators of all grade levels, subjects, and locations, this free, five-part course prepares teachers to incorporate works of art into classroom practices with Artful Thinking routines—critical thinking strategies developed by Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This self-paced course begins January 22, 2019 and will remain open indefinitely. Because the course is self-guided, participants can pace themselves through the course as their schedule allows. The course is free; participants can opt to purchase a verified, instructor-signed certificate for $25. For more information, visit www.nga.gov/onlinecourses .

Middle Level NAEA Members are invited to apply for the volunteer leadership position of Middle Level Member At Large on the NAHS National Council.

Join us for the 8th Annual NAEF Fundraising Benefit Event at the 2019 NAEA National Convention in Boston, MA.

Guidelines and application materials for three National Endowment for the Arts funding categories- Art Works, Challenge America, and Creative Writing Fellowships-have posted on the Arts Endowment‘s website. The National Endowment for the Arts supports projects in any part of the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.

Beginning January 1, 2019, teachers and students across the country — with help from the audio experts at NPR — will be able to turn their classrooms into production studios, their assignments into scripts, and their ideas into sound. NPR's Education Team is providing training materials and resources — how to use a smartphone to record audio, how to conduct an interview, audio storytelling tips and tricks — for both teachers and students. To help classrooms get started, NPR will also share suggested, but not required prompts, along with a set of criteria that judges will use to pick winning podcasts.

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National Board Certification is the most respected professional certification available in K-12 education. Board certification is available in 25 certificate areas spanning 16 disciplines from Pre-K through 12th grade. For Art educators this means you will continue to develop your knowledge and skills and specifically around the education of early and middle childhood student‘s learning or with early adolescent and young adult student’s learning and social emotional needs as well as your practice as a whole.

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