VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

Professional Development Opportunities

• Statewide workshops
  • NJDEO (New Jersey Dance Education Organization): To Be Announced…contact Dale SchmidNJMEA (New Jersey Music Educators Association): February 19-21, East Brunswick Hilton, http://www.njmea.orgSTANJ (Speech & Theater Association of New Jersey): October 21, 2003, Montclair State University, http://www.stanj.org/eventslist.html
  • AENJ (Arts Educators of New Jersey): October 1, 2 and 3, 2003, Garden State Exhibit and Conference Center and DoubleTree Hotel, Somerset, New Jersey, http://www.aenj.org
    
  Regional & National Workshops
  
  Dance:
  • NDEO (National Dance Education Organization): 2003 October 15 through 19, 2003 Albuquerque, New Mexico: http://www.ndeo.org
    • 2004 NDEO Conference, October 19-24,2004, East Lansing, Michigan
  • DiCI (Dance and the Child International) http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~devi/daci/

  Music:

  • MENC (Music Educators National Conference): 2004 April 14-18 Minneapolis, MN: http://www.menc.org/connect/meetings.htmlMENC http://www.menc.org/connect/meetings.html
    • 2005 MENC Eastern Division, March 3-6, 2005 in Baltimore, MD
  • MENC-sponsored Symposia Urban Music Leadership Conference – October 23-26, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA

  Theatre:

  • AATE (American Alliance for Theatre and Education): http://www.aate.com/

  Visual Arts:

  • NAEA (National Arts Educators Association): 2004 April 16-20 Denver, CO http://www.naea-reston.org
    NAEA 2005, March 4-8, Boston, MA
    NAEA 2006, March 22-26, Chicago, IL
    
  • NAEA 2007, March 14-18, New York, NY
    
  International Conferences
  • Music: International Society of Music Education: ISME 2004 World Conference: "Sound Worlds to Discover", July 2004, Canary Islands
    Dance: Dance & the Child International TO BE ANNOUNCED
    oTheater: ATHE convenes at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto from July 29 to August 1, 2004. The theme for the conference is "Inspiring Theatre: Networking Our Global-Local Resources." http://www.aate.com/
    
  • Visual Arts
  Other
  • National Board Certification (National Board for Professional Teaching Standards: www.nbpts.org

§ Visual Arts: http://www.aenj.org/profdev/natcert.html

• ArtEarly & Middle Childhood
• Early Adolescence Through Young Adulthood

§ Music: Early & Middle Childhood

• Early Adolescence