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Maryland Artist Teacher Institute

The Maryland Artist/Teacher Institute (MATI) is an intensive program of professional development for elementary and middle school teachers and administrators, conducted by master teachers, artists, and artist-educators. Through hands-on workshops, lectures, seminars, and performance, educators are provided opportunities to enhance their knowledge of the relationships among content areas and of ways that the arts can be used to integrate curriculum, content, processes, and skills. MATI was established to explore the arts as a force in a child’s development and enable teachers to become more knowledgeable, creative, and skillful in using the arts to engage children.

MATI is a program of the Maryland State Department of Education in partnership with the Maryland State Arts Council and AEMS.

For more information email Shelley Johnson, Fine Arts Specialist, Division of Instruction, Maryland State Department of Education. A copy of the 2009 MATI Brochure is available to download below.

The application for the 2013 Maryland Artist Teaching Institute is now open. The deadline has been extended to April 26, 2013.