Weber Fine Arts
April 1st, 2017, 8:30am-3:30pm

Registration Fee $5 per college student
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT DEADLINE WEDNESDAY MARCH 29, 2017
**no fee for professors attending with student groups
How to Attend
  1. Register using the link provided here.
  2. Submit $5 per college student in the NATA Store. Link provided on the registration form and in the NATA Store Menu above. Registration payment may be submitted by college supervisors for multiple registrants if preferred. Please list all registrants included on payment submission notes.

Informative Sessions on Adaptive Arts

In the High School
This session will be lead by Anna Minnick, high school art teacher at Burke High School in Omaha. Participants in this session will learn from Anna’s expertise on teaching students with a diverse range of needs at the high school level. Anna will show students how to design lessons with special needs in mind, how to differentiate tools and materials and will field questions from pre-service students.
For Everyone
This session will be lead by Joe Gregory, adaptive art educator at JP Lord Elementary, and Jeanne Gregory, art teacher at Jefferson Elementary. Participants in this session will learn from two experts on how to develop curriculum, adapt tools and materials, how to locate resources when teaching art to those with special needs. This session will be taught from the elementary perspective. There will also be an opportunity for pre-service students to ask questions of the speakers.
​A New Teacher's Perspective
This panel session will have three teachers, Joe Bristol (Wakonda Elementary), Marietta Deaver (Benson High School), and Marissa McClintock (Buffett Middle School), who are in their first three years of teaching share their experiences working with students with special needs in the art room. The panelists will highlight some of their successes and challenges, how they acquired the knowledge and skills to effectively teach students with special needs and discuss what they wish they would have known about teaching students with special needs before graduating. The panelists will also welcome questions from pre-service students.
NATA thanks University of Nebraska Omaha Fine Arts Department and Jeremy Johnson for facilitating this opportunity for PreService.