Professional Development Workshop
Design and Documentation
March 30, 2009
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
$95 (ECM and NAREA Members $85)
6 PDPs. Participants will explore and experience the connections among observation, listening, and visual communication as tools for teaching. The session will focus on Italian- and Reggio–inspired approaches to early childhood education, the Visual Thinking Strategies, and how graphic design can be used to foster greater engagement with art and learning, while highlighting the relationship that exists among design, documentation, and multiple languages of expression. Instructors: Rosemary Agoglia, Lella Gandini, Kristina Lamour Sansone
Registration is required. Please click here for information on how to register by Mail, Phone, or Fax.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
10:00 - 10:15 am
Welcome
10:15 am - 12:30 pm
Observation, Understanding and Reflection: A Dialogue with Art and Artists
Rosemary Agoglia and Lella Gandini
How do we make meaning of what we see? What are the artists' tools of communication? How do we make this learning visible? Through the lenses of the Museum Educator and the interpreter of the Reggio approach, Rosemary Agoglia and Lella Gandini respectively will explore how encounters with art can offer food for thought and constructive imagination. With a focus on the children and their knowledge-building process, this session will support teachers in their efforts to create a dialogue about learning (teacher to teacher, teacher to student, and student to student) through greater listening, observation and documentation.
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Lunch and time to browse the Museum
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Awakening the Eye through Graphic Design
Kristina Lamour Sansone
How does one mindfully navigate the infinite sea of typeface, color, and image choices when preparing documentation? By "thinking graphically" participants will engage in a visual dialogue which considers scale, arrangement, and editing and how they affect communication. A bit of history, reflective quiet looking, and discussion will highlight the ways graphic design can guide decision making in support of one's message.
3:00 – 3:15 pm
Refreshment Break
3:15 – 5:00 pm
A Day in the Life of..... Made Visible
Studio Design Activity – Hands-on, Minds-on
Using materials from home and those made available in the Studio, each participant will design and present a visual documentation of a day in their life. In addition to providing an opportunity to work directly with scale, arrangement, and editing, this hands-on, minds-on experience is designed to inspire critical and creative thinking as one explores how to graphically represent a message which is engaging, pleasing to behold, and easy to "read".
5:00 – 5:30 pm
Questions and Reflections
On The Road
Design Matters
March 30, 2009
7:30 - 9:00 pm
Free
This event will take place at The Neilson Library Browsing Room, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE.
Everyone engages in design every day. Join Kristina Lamour Sansone as she examines the ways in which the graphic design process offers a window into our human instinct and a framework for problem solving, opening eyes to a rich and multi-layered visual world.
Registration is required. Please click here for information on how to register by Mail, Phone, or Fax.
Presenter Bios
Rosemary Agoglia
Curator of Education, Rosemary Agoglia has a B.A. from the University of Buffalo and an M.A. in Education from the University of Massachusetts. Rosemary plans and implements all the educational programming of the Museum. As an educator, she has taught students of all ages, designed curriculum, and conducted workshops, and presented at national conferences. Trained in Visual Thinking Strategies, she works with visitors of all ages providing links between visual and verbal literacy and fostering the confidence to appreciate and enjoy art of every kind.
Lella Gandini
Visiting Scholar at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, Lella introduced the Reggio Approach in the United States in the early 1980s. For Reggio Children, she serves as the Liaison for the Dissemination of the Reggio Emilia Approach in the United States; she consults and lectures on that approach. Lella is co-author and co-editor of: The Hundred Languages of Children; Bambini: The Italian Approach to Infant/Toddler Care; In the Spirit of the Studio: Learning from the Atelier of Reggio Emilia; and Insights and Inspiration from Reggio Emilia: Stories of Teachers and Children from North America.
Kristina Lamour Sansone
Kristina is Associate Professor of Design at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. She has a graphic design B.F.A. from the University of the Arts and a M.F.A. from the Yale University, School of Art and a C.A.G.S. in curriculum and Instruction from Lesley University. For twenty years, she has worked with schools across the United States on projects that connect graphic design thinking with PK-12 education.