Tired of art projects that just fill the time without truly benefiting your students?
Do you want more for your students but aren't sure how to get there?
Then time to take a look at.....
This transformative professional development program will teach you how to create inspiring, developmentally and age appropriate art experiences that fosters problem solving, independence and critical thinking skill in your students!
With these expert insights and the right guidance, you can turn your students art time into an opportunity for them to express themselves, think critically, promoting confident, innovative thinkers and lifelong learners.
Let's help our children gain......
Increased Creativity
Enhanced Critical Thinking
Boosted Self Esteem
This groundbreaking program will will equip educators with strategies and a blueprint that will affect their entire learning experience.
Beyond Copycat Crafts is an online professional development program that teaches you how to unlock the creative power in your students by switching from cookie cutter/copycat crafts in the classroom to more creative art.
Part 1A-Four Part Educational Presentation
This educational slide presentation is divided into four parts.
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Introduction
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All the about the WHAT of cookie cutter, copycat crafts helping you gain an understanding of why it's so rampant & why it's so important to change.
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The WHY. We draw insight from renowned experts such as Piaget, Erickson, Dewey and Viktor Lowenfeld. We learn how children develop which allows us to understand how and why to create a developmentally appropriate art curriculum
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The HOW. We learn in detail how to incorporate all we learned to develop an awesome art curriculum.
Part 2-Resources-eBooks & Downloads
Part 1B includes 6 eBooks, a letter to parents bundle, planning sheets & 4 handouts to help round out the program
Part 3: Support
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Email Support: For four months after you purchase this program you will be able to email with any and all questions you might have about any part of this program. Email support is not available to purchase individually
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Follow Up Q&A: A few weeks or months after the purchase of this program there will be a live zoom class scheduled (or recorded if that works out better for you) answering any questions that have come up after through going through the program. This class is worth $397 and is not available for individual purchase
Part 4: Art Activities Hub
This art activities HUB has seven courses with over 175 videos included. They are full of activities to help you actually implement what you have learned in the educational presentation. (No scrambling all over the internet looking for the "right" activities. They are all here for you to choose from.)
Not every course will be a fit for every educator which is why there is an option to purchase things individually. Depending on if you are an administrator, teacher or home school parent will determine which you will purchase.
Courses are in flux and lessons are always being added. Once you own a course you will have all new material as it becomes available. If you own the entire HUB you will receive any new courses added at no extra charge.
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Holidays & Seasons
This course includes standard American holidays along with the four seasons and other special days. as well. The course uses the five categories of crafts that are developmentally appropriate to celebrate holidays.
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Jewish Holidays
This course is specifically for all of the Jewish holidays even ones that are not so commonly known to many. The course uses the five categories of crafts to celebrate these holidays.
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Curriculum & Art
This course uses curriculum as a base for art synthesizing the two. Science, Math, Reading and Social Studies are the curriculum models' that are intertwined with art helping the children gain important concepts and skills while enjoying the process.
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From Cookie Cutter to Creative Art
This course has all of the videos from our YouTube channel that teach how to take standard copycat, cookie crafts and remake them in a creative fashion. In this course all of the reference sheets shown in the videos are included.
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Process Only Art
This course emphasizes the child's experience during the artistic process, allowing them to freely explore materials, techniques, with no predetermined outcomes.
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Art Education-TAB
This course offers insights into the renowned TAB teaching method for early childhood and elementary school settings. The content here can be used for many classrooms not just TAB. There is a section teaching how to run a Tab art program at home. Any class can gain from this too.
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Parsha Crafts
This course is on the Torah portion of the week. There are Jewish schools that do lots of art based on the Parsha of the week. The course uses the five categories of crafts to use instead of copycat crafts.
Part 5-Four Bonuses
There are four bonuses available with the All Access Program . The two eBooks are available for individual purchase but, the Creativity for Adults bonuses are not.
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These two eBooks are chock full of activities that can help you raise the children's art experiences to a new level. Curriculum eBook has over 40 collages that you can use in your classroom and A Painting Curriculum gives you a whole gamut of what to use and how to use painting. It can be used for early elementary school as well.
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These two amazing bonuses. the 10 lesson Creativity challenge and the 5 video Creativity mini course is only available with the All Access Program. It is to help YOU reignite YOUR creativity. The more creative you are the more you will be able to help children be creative.
Part 6: Five Extra Licenses
5 year long licenses are included in the ALL ACCESS PROGRAM along with the 1 lifetime license. This is perfect for administrators or people that have other teachers working with them and want them to have access to the full program. This 5 bundle licenses is like purchasing the ALL ACCESSS program 5 more times.
What people have said about Faigies professional development workshops
"On two different occasions Faigie Kobre led staff development workshops on “art in the preschool" classroom in our preschool. On both occasions as a community of learners we benefited greatly from her expertise.
Faigie taught the teachers different techniques to help us help our young artists grow. Products she gave our teachers are invaluable tools that are still being used today."
Sheryl Hecht - Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, NY
"Faigie Kobre gave a wonderful hands-on art workshop for our Head Start early childhood staff. The teachers report that they have implemented many of the techniques and skills into their classroom art activities and daily routine.
The workshop has inspired and empowered the teachers to embrace a more creative learning experience for the children. We are amazed at the difference in children’s confidence and independence. We were not surprised when the data showed increased scores in problem-solving, creativity, and fine motor skills. "
D'vora Katz - Shira Head Start Brooklyn, NY
"Faigie delivered a workshop in my school a few years ago that was so enthusiastically received by my teachers that it changed their whole perspective on children’s art.
They began to let go of their need to control how the final product appeared and began to really allow the children to engage in the process in their own way. They finally learned to appreciate that in early childhood it is more often the process we value rather than the product."
Leah Weinstein-Reggio School Chelsea NYC
Purchase the ALL ACCESS PROGRAM which shows everything included below OR click on PURCHASE INDIVIDUALLY above to purchase components themselves
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Email support, FAQ zoom call, Adult Creativity bonuses & extra licenses are only available with the ALL ACCESS Program
Four part educational presentation
Resource Bundle- 12 eBooks & downloads
1-Holiday and Seasons Course
2-Jewish Holiday's Course
3-Process Only course
4-Art Education course
5-Curriculum & Art course
6-From Cookie Cutter to Creative Art course
7-Parsha Course
Complete Art Activities Hub Bundle w/ ALL 7 courses
Collage Curriculum eBook
A Painting Curriculum eBook
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INCREASED CREATIVITY
Teachers will gain the tools and knowledge to design art activities that foster creativity and imagination in students, allowing children to explore and express their unique ideas freely.
ENHANCED CRITICAL THINKING
By incorporating developmentally appropriate art, teachers can encourage critical thinking skills as children engage in problem-solving and decision-making during the creative process.
BOOSTED SELF ESTEEM
Through creative art experiences, children can develop a sense of accomplishment and improved self-esteem as they create and express themselves in unique ways.
BETTER LEARNING OUTCOMES
Developmentally appropriate art can support holistic learning, helping students make connections across different subjects and enhancing overall academic achievements.
MORE POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR
Providing creative art opportunities can lead to a reduction in disruptive behavior, as students find joy and fulfillment in their art activities.
PARENT APPRECIATION
Parents are likely to appreciate the positive changes they observe in students' creativity and engagement, leading to increased support and positive feedback for the school.
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FAQ
The reason many kids don't like art is because of their previous art experiences. Allow those children lots of process only art, with no expectations, and see how they come alive.
There are so many ways to learn to follow directions. Even within more creative types of art there are activities that need direction following. Using art to teach direction following is wasting the amazing opportunities art has for growth.
Using art to teach is a waste of art. Art is a vehicle to help children think, solve problems and boost their self esteem not for "teaching".
Actually today there are many parents who really don't like the copycat crafts and are thrilled when you change over. They like to see their children's work not the teacher's. With a little parent education they usually become your biggest advocates.
Children need to use their senses to learn and therefore, messy activities for very young children are extremely important. There are ways to contain it and when teachers want to look out for their students good they will learn how to deal with it.
Anytime you want to see what works you need to look at the research. In the past 50-100 years there have been many child development experts who studied children and saw how they learn best. To learn how to teach children we look towards the experts who have discovered how they learn best.
There are many types of art activities to do with children. It all depends on their age and level. As part of this program there is an Art Activities HUB that has many videos and handouts to help you get a program like this up and running.
About Faigie
Meet Faigie Kobre, a seasoned and passionate educator with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the world of early childhood education and creative art. Holding a Masters in Early Childhood Education from Bank Street College of Education, Faigie's journey in education began in the preschool setting.
This was where she witnessed firsthand the transformative power of creative expression in early childhood development. As an early childhood director, she spearheaded initiatives that focused on fostering child-centered learning environments, and has been a been a sought-after presenter, conducting workshops for numerous early childhood and early elementary schools. Her workshops have left a lasting impact, inspiring educators to embrace innovation and cultivate a love for art and self-expression among their students.
For the past decade, Faigie has served as an elementary school art teacher at Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam, where she has been instrumental in implementing the renowned TAB choice-based art curriculum. This hands-on experience in the art classroom allows Faigie to blend theory with practical insights, creating a holistic approach to professional development that resonates with teachers and school leaders alike.
Creative, developmentally appropriate art can have a transformative impact on the entire classroom, creating a more dynamic, and fulfilling educational experience for students and teacher.
Faigie was our elementary art teacher for the past eleven years and has given her workshops to our early childhood teachers as well. Our teachers love her workshops and have implemented many of her ideas. Since then they have seen their students gain confidence in their ideas and have been able to take more risks in their art work. They love the way their students enjoy art and are no longer worried about "doing it right". Many teachers go visit Faigie's art room in order to gain more ideas for their classrooms, as they continuously see the benefits of creative art.
Mrs. Leah Zytman
Former Principal in Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam