Recent participants in the professional development workshop Deepening the Understanding of Symmetry with Mosaics.

Professional development workshops for teaching staff has always been a focus of mine. For years I have created workshops for the Teacher Resource Center of the Education Department of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The goal of the Museum workshops has been to to introduce new techniques of working with clay with school age children. I am also a Kennedy Center Fellow in the Initiative to Develop Effective Workshops for Teachers. This program uses the arts to reinforce the teaching of other parts of the core curriclum. For the Kennedy center I created the workshop Deepening the Understanding of Symmetry with Mosaics which I've offered in workshops for teaching staffs in Ohio. I also give staff building workshops for art teachers during annual professional days. One of the most popular of these workshops is Sounds of the Earth (creating musical instruments from clay). In addition, I'm always creating new programs. Please contact me at 216 225 0368 or e-mail me at georgewoideck@sbcglobal.net to discuss how I can assist your school system in staff deveopment.