TEACHER TRAINING AT YOUR SCHOOL
OUR PROJECT


POETRY WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS
Young Children - Middle & Upper School Students Programme
Having Fun with Poetry - Playing with Words - Creative Energy
Read, Perform, Write! Draw, Discover, Dream!
Critical Thinking - Poetry Across the Curriculum
The Elements of Poetry
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THE READING WRITING FACILITATOR PROGRAM
The Reading and Language Arts Workshop
Weaving Comprehension through the Arts
Values, Literature and NLP
The Reading Writing Connection
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WORDS THAT HEAL
THE AFFECTIVE DOMAIN IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
The Five Pillars of Self-Esteem
Security, Confidence, Belonging, Purpose and Competence
How to build them through caring teaching strategies?
Positive talk, active listening and non-competitive games

Based on The Seeds of Confidence
by Verónica de Andrés & Jane Arnold-Hebling Publishing.
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2011 TOUCH THE AUTHOR

- all ages -

SCHOOLS JOINING US THIS YEAR!

MALLINKRODT – SWORN JUNIOR COLLEGE –
SAINT ANDREW’S OLIVOS – INSTITUTO INTEGRAL MUNDO NUEVO – DAILAN KIFKI KINDER – DAILAN KIFKI PRIMARY & SECONDARY SCHOOLS – DOVER HIGH SCHOOL
 – SAN MARCOS KINDER MONTE GRANDE – NORTHFIELD SCHOOL – SAN CARLOS OLIVOS – NORTHLANDS OLIVOS – MICHAEL HAM NORDELTA- GALILEO GALILEI –
ESCUELA 12  D.E. 16 - JUAN SANTOS GAYNOR SECONDARY SCHOOL – GALILEO GALILEI KINDER & PRIMARY –
 FLORIDA KINDER – SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA –
COLEGIO SAN ISIDRO – OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL KINDER

2011 Workshops & artperformance
Book you dates for the second half of the school year!

-KINDER-

Little Stories for Little Hands
A Cuddle for Chimp
Dancing Dreams: from Bach to Rock
Eric Carle’s Art **
INCREDIBLE Pets!
Stories that Jump and Chant

- PRIMARY-

Bunny, Please Come Back to Me!
Little Piece 
The Mountain and the Bird
hipartjazz
Stories of Dragons
…and suddenly I started to see red…
Design your Dream
Andy Warhol and Pop Art Think Colourful!
Andy Warhol’s Art and Advertising

-SECONDARY-

Andy Warhol’s Art and Advertising
Graphic Storytelling and Roy Lichtenstein
The Language of Dreams in Art and Literature
Stories of Suspense & Mystery

 A Literature in the Arts Project
facilitated by Prof María Teresa Manteo

2011 TOUCH THE AUTHOR
VISUAL ARTS PROJECT FOR PRE-TEENS & TEENS
Andy Warhol - Roy Lichtenstein - René Magritte

Grades 4 to 6
René Magritte - Design your Dream workshop
Children explore the language of dreams in paintings by Renée Magritte
and play with pictorial elements in surrealism. Link with lyrics in modern songs.
Hands-on:  Design your dream combining the principles discussed.
Category: Artwork – Self-expression - Critical Thinking - Music

Andy Warhol and Pop Art - Think Colourful! workshop
Children step into Andy Warhol’s home, any kid’s dream house, to understand the famous “ art is everywhere”.
SL facilitator leads children in the appreciation of the effect of “repetition” and effect achieved in portrait series.
Links with music.
Hands-on mural: Think Colourful! Posters
Category: Art Appreciation- Music - Critical Thinking - Artwork
Based on James Warhola`s Uncle Andy: A Faabbbulous Visit with Andrew Warhol
Winner of the International Reading Association Children’s Book Award for Primary Nonfiction.

Grades 6 to 12
Andy Warhol’s Art and Advertising workshop
SL facilitator leads students on a walk through Andy Warhol’s contributions to pop art and the phenomenon of advertising.
Students will explore the silkscreen technique and assess how image transformation affects mood and ideas.
The value of image in pop art.
Hands-on mural: Pop Portraits
Category: Art & Advertising – Critical Thinking – Artwork - Music

Graphic Storytelling & Roy Lichtenstein workshop
Students explore the crafting of stories in a visual medium, drawing on a wealth of visual aids.
Images as narrative tools: surprise, shock and reader retention.
Lichteinstein’s visual language based on the comic.
Benday-dot grounds, lettering, and balloons.
The use of cartoons as a form of historical fiction.
Hands-on: Using a cartoon to create a work of art.
Workshop category: storytelling - visual arts –music
Based on: Roy Lichtenstein Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists by Mike Venezia

René Magritte -The Language of Dreams in Art and Literature
Surrealist paintings by René Magritte trigger talk about the principles in dream work.
Students play surrealist games to set the creative mind in motion to produce original poetry.
Links with modern songwriters and poets.
Renée Magritte – cummings – The Beatles- Simon & Garfunkel
Category: Visual Arts- Literature-Writing
For more information, contact
Prof. María Teresa Manteo
mmanteo@supportlearning.com.ar
www.supportlearning.com.ar
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TOUCH THE AUTHOR is an educational project run by professional artists who blend quality children’s Literature with the transformational power of the arts. Our starting point is always a special book, whose life-affirming message, illustrations and literary quality stand out, and deserve to be enjoyed and studied as works of art.

This project allows students and teachers to see artists perform, interact with them and by so doing enrich their own stock of images and personal resources. Participants are led by workshop facilitators through a process of discovery that sparks cognition and fosters intellectual and emotional growth.

After having visited numerous schools in the last five years, we have been able to see the profound impact that the integration of the Arts and Literature can generate in the learning experience. This union creates a synergy that is bigger than the sum of the parts and reaches participants in special ways that unleash creative potential.

TOUCH THE AUTHOR addresses Literature as a mode of expression of feelings and ideas, where words gain meaning in the context of the visual, musical and the dramatic languages of art. By making Literature a more concrete place, rich in visual and auditory images, learners can connect more easily to the world of ideas.

In the design of this project we have drawn on the intellectual wealth passed on by inspiring scholars, such as Howard Gardner and “Project Zero”, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi , architect of the notion of “Flow”, David Perkins, strong advocate for the use of the Arts in school curricula, Don Campbell, passionate researcher into the wholesome effects of music on the brain, and Natalie Rogers’ “Creative Connection Theory”. The endless list of researchers in the field testifies to the fact that, as educators, we need to shape new methods to humanize cognition, further understanding and jointly create a healthier place, where intellectual freedom and better judgment can bring peace to our troubled world.

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Why Literature?

It feeds the soul with a taste of adventure, providing characters and situations that echo familiar issues.

It is a safe place, where we can have fun and share with others the concerns of human existence.

It allows us to make connections between ourselves, our realities and other books, media and cultures.

Why the Arts?

Their broad-spectrum modes of expression reach learners in appealing ways, by easily tapping into visual, auditory and kinesthetic channels.

They provide multiple languages that allow for the expression of feelings and thoughts in non-verbal modes.

By tapping into non-verbal modes, it is easier to engage thought and with it invite language to manifest itself.

The Rationale of Touch the Author is also available through counseling and teacher training in Flow, Literature and the Arts, and Words that Heal, the Affective Domain in Language Teaching.