Online Course: Art and Literacy (October 7 through December 9, 2025) (event)

This course runs from October 7 through December 9.

How can art be used to develop student growth in literacy skills? This self-paced online course explores methods for integrating art and literacy strategies to support North Carolina’s Literacy Instruction Standards across classrooms. Participants gain an understanding of how literacy is defined through a variety of lenses and apply their learning by developing a lesson plan. Strategies that incorporate NCMA works of art are used to practice and apply activities to build interpretive and expressive modes of literacy focused on a variety of reading materials, comprehension, vocabulary building, and writing.

Educators will:

• Be able to define literacy through a variety of disciplinary lenses.
• Be able to recognize opportunities and practice strategies for integrating art and literacy instruction that support NC Literacy Instruction Standards.
• Design a lesson or a set of lessons that support literacy through arts integration based on the needs of educators’ classrooms.
• Reflect within a collaborative peer learning community and create curricular connections with the North Carolina Museum of Art’s collection.

This course is designed for teachers of all disciplines and audiences. A certificate of participation for 20 hours will be provided for literacy, general, or content area credits (2 CEU, with prior approval from the local school system).