FOR EDUCATORS
Learn the Art of Creative REuse
The MFTA Education Center offers high-impact workshops and classes to teachers, students and the public. Held at MFTA’s Long Island City facility and in schools across NYC, these workshops focus on the Creative REuse of everyday materials and increase student engagement by showing teachers how to integrate the arts across the curriculum. MFTA’s teaching artists model useful techniques and showcase ideas that support our Creative REuse philosophy, inspiring teachers to include more art in their schools.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Earn P- and CTLE Credits while taking your educational career to the next level.
IN-SCHOOL PROGRAMS
Help students & parents make more meaningful connections between sustainability & art.
FIELD TRIPS
Bring your students to the MFTA warehouse for multimodal arts learning activities.
COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
Bring Creative Reuse into any community with multi-generational family engagement events.
UPCOMING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMING
Creative Infusion: Art and Reuse in the Classroom (Fall 2019)
This course teaches teachers curriculum integration by giving them an understanding of Creative Reuse art techniques that they can use to teach literacy, math, science and social studies.
Music: The Sounds of Math, Science and Social Studies (Fall 2019)
This course is designed for teachers to integrate music into the classroom through fun and simple techniques, learning basic concepts found in music while designing a series of hands-on indigenous inspired instruments...
