LEAP IT for Art Teacher

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso

Great Art teachers nurture their students to be an artist for a lifetime. They become the most favourite teachers of the students. They help students to have a fulfilled life with artistic ability, attitude and aesthetic appreciation.

Thus, the Art Teacher needs to be well equipped and knowledgeable. MKCL brings you the LEAP Art teacher course to enable Art teachers to become Sm-Art Teachers.

1. LEAP Art teacher course helps you learn and use technology extensively in teaching and learning.
2. This course helps you plan the learning experience of students.
3. It helps you manage curricular and co-curricular School activities.
4. You can upskill yourself by learning new Design applications and using them effectively in the workplace.
5. Along with technology, you learn methodologies and instructional strategies to improve learner's engagement and experience.
6. It also helps ART Teacher to become a Sm-Art Teacher.

• LEAP Art teacher helps to solve problems that an adult learner regularly encounters.
• LEAP Art teacher course helps teachers teach Artistic skills, knowledge and understanding of Arts effectively.
• It exposes art teachers to the rich heritage of the nation.
• This course guides to using the arts with other subjects.
• It has various case studies that will help to teach arts with varied methods and best practices.
• LEAP Art Teacher course helps Art teachers in their professional development.
• It helps Art teachers get respect and dignity at their workplace

The academic approach of the courses focuses on the “work-centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book!), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful. The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as an employee or entrepreneur as well as development of the community to which s/he belongs. Learning methodology:

• Step -1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
• Step -2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step -3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step -4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step -5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step -6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step -7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step -8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step -9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step-10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step-11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step-12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!

Evaluation Pattern of LEAP Courses consists of 4 Sections as per below table:

MKCL's LEAP Certificate

The certificate will be provided to the learner who will satisfy the below criteria:

1. Learners who have successfully completed above mentioned 3 Sections i.e. Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
2. Additionally, learner should have completed Section 4 (i.e. Section 4 will comprise of SUPWs i.e. Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)