In this workshop, Lauren Kinney presents arts activities — drawing from music, creative writing, and visual arts. Utilizing the arts in tutoring can create a more lighthearted environment that may reach unengaged students and provide them with ways to shine while they learn. The arts activities presented reinforce skills and topics from language arts and math, integrating these subjects in fun and creative ways.
Lauren Kinney is a musician and writer in Los Angeles currently working on her master’s in creative writing with an emphasis in fiction. She has taught K-8th grade general music for 2-1/2 years after being trained in Orff Schulwerk, a music education approach that incorporates movement, drama, and speech in the general music classroom. She is passionate about arts education and is interested in the ways that the arts can be a vehicle for social-emotional learning.