Conference Workshop Leader and Moderator
John Bertles has worked as Workshop Leader and/or Moderator at arts-in-education
conferences throughout the Northeast, but mostly in New York State, including
the "Face-to-Face" Conference in New York City, Queens Summer Arts Institute,
New York State's "Common Ground" and Sullivan County's "Music of the Spheres"
Conference.
Following are some workshop possibilities:
- Composing with Recorders
- Composing with Simple Instruments
- Composing with Student-Built Instruments
- Composing Music based on Student Writings
- Incorporating the Arts into the Core Curriculum (for Classroom Teachers)
- Incorporating the Core Curriculum into the Arts (for Arts Specialists
and Teaching Artists)
- Creating Arts-based Assessment tasks
- Best Practices for Teaching Artists
- How to Create and Use Listening Maps
One of his specialties is creating new and innovative workshops that are
tailored to fit into a conference's theme or concept.
Contact
him for more information on new workshop possibilities.
He can also be a Moderator for panel discussions, job-alike colloquiams
or other gatherings where professionals come together to share ideas and
look for solutions. He has evolved a system of dynamic large-scale
note-taking (plastering the walls of the space with many large sheets of
paper - see picture above) that is designed to keep participants moving
toward deep thinking and common goals rather than degenerating into mere
reiteration of complaints and anecdotes. After the event has finished,
these findings can then be re-assembled and compressed into a form that can
be quickly and easily put onto a website so that participants can access
and refer to the conclusions.