Community support for teacher learning in visual art

The objective of this collaborative project is to provide community support for provisionally registered teachers (PRT'S) in the curriculum area of visual art. Using visual art education expertise that exists in the community the PRT’s will be supported by a collaborative community support network. The project will trial this collaborative community support network for the 2 year period the volunteer PRT’s start working in schools. Each ‘expert’ group within the network will be responsible for developing and delivering workshops related to the use of visual art within the classroom. Each ‘expert’ group will provide one practical workshop per year, thus the PRT’s will receive one workshop per term. The collaborative community will comprise of the following
1. Pataka
2. Raroa Normal Intermediate
3. Victoria University Wellington in collaboration with ANZAAE
4. Toi Poneke (Wellington City Council, City Arts Centre & City Gallery)

As well as providing practical workshops the ‘expert’ groups will also provide mentors to support the PRT's as they develop their expertise in the use of visual art in their teaching. The process of mentoring and giving advice would take place in both face to face and online environments. It is envisaged that the online setting will provide support for the PRT’s as they are able to share and develop visual art teaching resources.