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Download the 2008 faa/Winter MetroArts Newsletter

Read Becky Anderson, former YAC artist, article in the Tribune.

Teacher Training

Can an arts curriculum, looking for “high road transfer”, actually get you improvements in student creativity, and foster specific “thinking dispositions”, by teaching for the transfer of those skills to other disciplines after they have been learned through creating works of art, music, theater and/or dance?

Niel DePonte believes that the ability to “think outside the box”, so valued in corporate America, can best be taught through the arts and he shares his thoughts in his course, “Teaching for Creativity in the Classroom”.

To learn more about Teacher Training Workshops email MetroArts or call 503.245.4885.