WELCOME TO THE DIALOGUE PROJECT:
a collaboration between Guatemalan and Richmond, VA Teachers
NAEA Presentation March 2013
Introduction
The Dialog Project is collaboration between research students at VCU, the Highland Support Project www.highlandsupportproject.org , Mayan Educators Association, Teachers for Social Justice(Richmond, VA) http://www.rvatsj.org/ and the National Art Education Association (VCU student chapter). We are creating an experience for teachers to converse on topics of social justice and education. After we get to know one another, we plan to collaborate and create 5 different lessons together.
The Project is interdisciplinary including not only those interested in education but participators who are invested in their local and global community. In order to encourage tolerance and cultural discovery the research revealed in the Teachers Dialog Project will show educators an interest in multicultural education and the arts how to teach and brainstorm collaboratively. The project will include 5 teaching groups that focus on art that is made for the sake of learning while creating an amazing finished product. In Art Education an arts-based lesson breaks the boundaries of subject and language which occurs often in the expanding connections between students. This program will hopefully help further this new voice movement with Art Historians and lead to a one-on-one understanding of how art is interpreted in a different cultural learning environment. The Teacher’s Dialogue Project facilitates creating effective lesson plans and the techniques of maintaining a successful learning environment while collaborating with other teachers and building connections on a global scale.
The Project is interdisciplinary including not only those interested in education but participators who are invested in their local and global community. In order to encourage tolerance and cultural discovery the research revealed in the Teachers Dialog Project will show educators an interest in multicultural education and the arts how to teach and brainstorm collaboratively. The project will include 5 teaching groups that focus on art that is made for the sake of learning while creating an amazing finished product. In Art Education an arts-based lesson breaks the boundaries of subject and language which occurs often in the expanding connections between students. This program will hopefully help further this new voice movement with Art Historians and lead to a one-on-one understanding of how art is interpreted in a different cultural learning environment. The Teacher’s Dialogue Project facilitates creating effective lesson plans and the techniques of maintaining a successful learning environment while collaborating with other teachers and building connections on a global scale.
Time Line:
Meeting 1: October 27 for participating researchers
Meeting 2: November 1st for interested
certified teachers and professors
November 15th: finalized
list of participating members
November 30th: meet and
greet+ how to use the forum+ guest speakers, Ben and/or Lupe from the Highland
Support Project.
January 15th: Forum will be
updated with 1st topic, response is due within 1 week
There will be 2 posts a month in which members are
supposed to be actively engaged in this online digital forum
February 15th: Planning for
collaborative project should be in process.
March 1st: Planning for
lessons will be finalized
April 1st: Project should
be completed and practiced in the classroom, analysis for project begins
June 15th: trip to Guatemala to gather interviews and
analyze the success of the collaborative lessons
June 15th: completed
analysis should be submitted as a paper complete with a guide to collaborative,
interdisciplinary, international lesson planning.
The Timeline takes of 2011 and 2012
