KJAER NELETIA PEDERSEN: ProD - Maple Ridge Teachers

Professional Development Day - Maple Ridge Teachers – February 15, 2012 – comments on the GET DIRTY class by Kjaer Neletia Pedersen

- Everything was great. Handouts and hands on time, along with take home samples. Will be trying this in my classroom next week. Thanks!

- All the examples! All the handouts J

- Getting the opportunity to play with the clay and get a feel for how the kids will be able to work with it. I really liked the getting to make samples of projects to be able to show my students for inspiration. Kjaer did a great job of giving us tons of information

- I really appreciated the demos and lots of work time. Great workshop!

- We had the time to be creative. I appreciated the handouts and the

- Facilitator’s knowledge and ideas. I will be able to use these projects with my own students.

- All of the available materials and different ideas and the time to play was excellent. I really enjoyed this. Thank you.

- The quick into to various clay art and the ability to play and explore was wonderful. Just great. Thank you.

- I appreciated that we were able to play most of the session. Learning comes from doing rather than just watching. It was an awesome workshop that I can take and use in the classroom immediately.

- We had time to play, the brisk paced instruction was great, and then to know that everything goes and everyone could experience success even the reluctant artists among us. I have so many wonderful ideas to keep me going and I will be doing this with students for sure.

- We had the opportunity to actually make stuff and it was nice to do something in the arts. I appreciated the hands on workshop and all of the ideas that could be used in my classroom.

- There were fantastic ideas and it was fabulous to watch the process of making masks, mugs, etc. It was great to have the opportunity to just play. Thanks so much!

- The demonstrations were amazing. There was lots of time to just play with the clay and lots of ideas to take into the classroom. It was great – thank you!

- I really appreciated the demonstrations and the variety of activities you could do with clay in a classroom. I can see even young students creating clay objects that look really nice and they would enjoy creating them. I also really liked the detailed handout.

- I appreciated getting the new ideas for ways to work with clay. I liked how we could then all work at our own pace. Very fun. I can definitely see myself using this in my classroom.

- It was so appreciated to see the demonstrations and the large amount of supplies available for us to use. I thought it was great! I learned a lot and I had lots of fun.

- All the enthusiasm of the instructor.

- Rapid but thorough explanations – like show and tell.

- I really appreciated the many examples and playtime.

- The quick overview of possibilities and still time to play.

- I really appreciated working with the paper clay and learning how to make a mask and a bowl.

- I appreciated the practical ideas and the handout. I loved being able to just play. Kjaer did a great job. I very much enjoyed the workshop. Thank you!