01/20/2025
The Miami University Preservice Art Education Conference is happening this spring, on Sunday, April 6th!
https://tinyurl.com/preserviceconference
We encourage our awesome alumni to consider proposing 30-minute presentations to share their knowledge with up-and-coming art educators from Miami and beyond!
See the Conference website for the link to propose a presentation or register for the conference, as well as other information.
Proposals can either be talks covering relevant topics, or hands-on workshops exploring materials and processes.
(If your proposal is accepted and you will be presenting at the conference, you can waive the conference fee!)
If it helps you to have suggestions, our students have brought these up as topics they would find useful or interesting (but feel free to share whatever expertise you have to share!):
-maintaining your art practice/artist identity alongside teaching
-teaching digital art
-supporting LGBTQ+ students (and/or self-care/supports/resources as an LGBTQ+ teacher)
-effective, socio-emotionally responsible classroom management strategies
-tips for "sub-optimal" teaching setups: (Teaching "art on a cart", Traveling between multiple schools)
-disability and inclusion in the art room (Or supports for teachers with disabilities, including neurodiversity, invisible disability)
-budgeting materials - making the most out of a school budget
(I think a way to keep this from being dry could be to make it a workshop - like, have teams in different scenarios with different needs and budgets have to actually fill out a materials order?)
-preventing burnout
-art teaching with non-English speakers and English learners
-teaching performance art in K-12
-phones in secondary classrooms - managing behaviors, 'banning' phones, integrating phones into lessons/activities
-grad school experiences - taking classes while teaching, taking grad school classes for art ed or for other subjects, other topics related to continuing education and learning as a teacher
-hands-on workshops for useful/new/interesting materials for the K-12 art room
This conference is a great opportunity to share your experiences and expertise with emerging art educators, who are in a place you were in not too long ago! It’s also a great bullet point to add to a resume or a professional development portfolio!
