Join a transformative three-day professional development seminar tailored specifically for teaching artists, The Teaching Artist’s Journey. This experience delves into best practices for creating impactful, arts-based educational experiences while honing instructional design, delivery, and classroom management strategies.

This seminar is structured around the Five-Phase Teaching Artist Development Cycle: Planning, Preparing, Teaching, Reflecting, and Revising. By exploring this cycle, participants will refine their teaching approaches through dynamic sessions and hands-on activities.

Key Highlights:

1. Comprehensive Framework: Dive into core lesson design components—Introduction, Learning Activity, and Closure—and learn how to integrate these effectively into your teaching.
2. Practical Application: Engage in activities like writing transitions, designing lesson steps, and creating participant groupings.
3. Classroom Management: Build skills to establish effective routines, handle unexpected behaviors, and create seamless transitions to maintain engagement.
4. Technical Exploration: Experiment with Artificial Intelligence as a brainstorming and planning tool.
5. Guided Practice: Experience live example lessons and apply insights to your own teaching, with opportunities to share and receive feedback from peers and facilitators.

This seminar offers the gift of time to focus, create, and refine. Whether you’re a seasoned teaching artist or just starting your journey, you’ll leave with new insights, tools, and a network of peers committed to excellence in arts-based education.

Outcomes: By the end of the seminar, participants will:

• Know best practices for instructional design and classroom management.
• Be able to apply these practices in lesson planning and delivery.
• Appreciate the power of structured, engaging, and thoughtful arts-based learning.

Join us to grow your artistry and teaching skills while building a foundation for lasting educational impact.

REGISTRATION COST: $1,200.00. INCLUDES LODGING AND MOST MEALS

• Registration includes 2 Pre-Intensive ZOOM sessions on
  • Saturday, June 7 @ 8am PST/11am EST
  • Saturday June 14 @ 8am PST/11 am EST

Accommodations and Meals:

To foster an immersive and collaborative learning environment, participants are housed in undergraduate dormitory accommodations on the UC Santa Barbara campus. The dormitory apartments are located in the recently opened Sierra Madre complex located on the Goleta side of the UC Santa Barbara campus. Participants are assigned to their own bedroom in a shared two-bedroom apartment with each participant having their own bathroom. Linens are provided. All facilities are ADA compliant. The Institute provides three nights lodging with an arrival date of June 29 and a departure date of July 2. (Ending time on July 2 is 11:00am)  If you are interested in making your own accommodations off-campus or would like to arrange an early arrival on campus, please contact morgan.focus5@gmail.com. 

Breakfasts and lunches are provided.
A catered reception will be held Sunday, June 29 from 5pm-7pm to welcome participants.
A catered dinner will be provided the evening of July 1.

Note: The UCSB campus is a smoke-free campus.