Kujawa Elementary Teachers Attend MFAH Workshop

Thirty-five Kujawa Elementary School staff members sharpened their creative skills by attending a Learning Through Art workshop offered by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH).

Learning Through Art (LTA) at the MFAH connects world art into the classroom curriculum for art, language arts, math, science, and social studies. Through discussions in the museum’s galleries and hands-on art projects, elementary-level teacher training introduces lessons that use the visual arts to teach students how to think critically and creatively.

The objective of LTA/MFAH is to bridge disciplines and curriculums to enable students to explore key concepts in the real world context of the art museum while teaching literacy and writing skills, math, science, and social studies. Teachers can also use the museum’s elementary curriculum to integrate higher-level cognitive skills and communication skills to ultimately promote the students’ development of skills that are needed to succeed in the world.

The staff members who attended the “The Age of Impressionism” workshop enjoyed the opportunity to learn and have fun as a team on Saturday, Jan.18.

A Target Arts, Culture and Design in Schools Grant obtained by Kim Corrick, assistant principal at the campus, and Tara Rollins, information literacy specialist at Kujawa Elementary, funded the training at the museum.

Kujawa Elementary is an International Baccalaureate (IB) School that offers the Primary Years Program.