Workshops for Educators and Teachers

Scribbles & Squiggles offers high quality educational consultancy to teachers, educational institutions, centres and community organisations. Seminars and hands on workshops can be created to suit the needs of individual staff and groups. All workshops empower participants with skills and strategies to embed an innovative and multi-arts based approach to programming while fostering inquiry based learning environments. As an educational consultant, I can also come into your centre or school observe practice, identify needs and create a program and approach that can dramatically transform educational spaces, programs, curriculum, teaching philosophies and student outcomes. The added advantage of this practice allows educators to also observe how techniques and strategies can engage and be modelled to children. Regardless of your experience Scribbles & Squiggles Art Workshops can reinvigorate practice, build competencies within the arts and enhance your tool kit of art and craft ideas, while encouraging collisions and connections to other essential learnings within your program.

A taste of some of the workshops on offer:

• Hands on Art: Creating A Multi-Arts Based Approach
• Creating Meaningful Art & Craft Sessions in Childcare
• Drawing with Young Children
• The Power of Paint
• Open Ended Explorations
• The Power of Pretend Play
• Speaking Sculpture with Young Children
• Egg-spressions of Imaginative Play
• Powerful Programming
• Eco- Art
• Literacy and Art Links: the Power of the Picture Book
• Pushing the boundaries in the senior classroom: What is Art?
• Teaching art through a post modernist lens: beyond the isms and dead white males in the secondary classroom.
• The art of appraisal: using philosophical discussions in the art classroom
• An integrated approach to art across the p-10 curriculum
• I'm not a specialist art teacher! Technique and skill building in the primary classroom
• Designing & Implementing Action Research Projects in your learning environment
• Language of the art classroom
• New Media Art
• Photography in Action
• Edible Art
• Using an Arts based pedagogies for effective learning in the early years

Contact us today to arrange a seminar or hands on workshop for your centre or school's next professional development day today.

What have participants gained from attending a Scribbles & Squiggles Consultancy Workshop?

My approach to art and craft has changed dramatically by incorporating art and craft activities throughout my program that encourage children to explore materials freely and build on their knowledge through interactions and posing of questions and scenarios. Children's pretend play can also be enhanced by their creations and they can be incorporated as pretend play props.

I am more motivated to encourage art and craft activities; I am more open to children's ideas, and trying my hardest to allow their ideas to generate experiences. Example: Children drew a mud puddle, we extended this further by talking about the mud puddle in terms of our senses and then we extended this discussion by making a huge mud puddle, very dirty and messy but so much fun and learning took place.

I am more aware of art and craft experiences as a means of self expression and learning. I now try not to set too many limits to activities and am exploring the use of more open ended materials, and I have been sharing these new found inspirations with those in my centre.

I am now more confident in trying new things, I also realize that children don't have to finish projects on the day; they can come back to them with new ideas and changes, after talking and thinking about their projects. I am eager to listen more to the feedback of children and the discussions they have while creating and trying to use them as springboards to other activities or extended projects.

I now have a lot more strategies, ideas and materials to use. I am now watching and documenting the children as they explore and create.

The workshops have rekindled old ideas and extended on them, allowing for more flexible ideas and learn to flow from one to the other.

I now involve other adults in my practice, by sharing what I have learnt with those in my centre and parents, exploring benefits, new systems, reasons for doing and the exploration of open ended activities.

By participating in the workshops I have learnt how to extend on books to express feelings as art work more than before. Understanding of how important it is to allow children more time to finish projects has been realised too. I am now more flexible, I still have structure but allow for children's questions and lines of inquiry to become the program too. I have also learnt never to underestimate the power of a picture book.

Art work at all display levels, not just the kids paintings, drawings, now include photos of children doing artwork and booklets made up to display their explorations, the presentation of the room has also changed dramatically. My teaching space has been totally transformed, I have created more whole group activity space rather than the small groups, have changed the whole space to allow for this.

I have changed my space to include art activities being completed at all times in the room to encourage the children to create constantly.

I have a lot more documentation going on... I have noticed parents reading my learning stories about activities we visit each day.

My space now is very active, colourful, busy, lots of questions and comments from parents... it has been really great to get the whole community involved in our art and craft explorations.