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Jon Pearson

Jon Pearson, winner of the 2001 Professional Artists in Schools award, is an internationally known speaker, learning skills consultant and author. He has performed on stage, television, and in schools for over twenty years, and has worked with over a million students, teachers, parents and administrators across the U.S. and in Canada, Europe, and South America. As a classroom teacher, he worked extensively with ELL, GATE and Title I. The U.S. Government selected him to tour schools throughout Asia.

Pearson has spent a lifetime dreaming up ways to reach children. His workshops and programs demonstrate practical secrets to draw out students and help them to be the unique, life-long learners they naturally are.

As a motivational speaker for businesses and schools, he has addressed many state and national conferences. He received the highest workshop rating its history from the U.S. Patent Model Foundation' s national "Creativity Conference for Educators." He travels widely and works with any size audience, and all ages (kindergarten through university).

In addition to the nearly thousand schools for which Pearson has presented, he has also worked with corporations such as SC Johnson, Kellogg' s, General Mills, Novell, General Motors and the U.S. Navy.

Art Forms:
Visual Art

Programs

Jon Pearson add to wish list

Jon uses childrens' native love of doodling to illustrate (pun intended) the ways drawing motivates reading, writing, thinking and self-esteem. His fast-paced programs combine drawing, dramatization, storytelling and audience participation to turn the often frustrating drawing process into a satisfying learning technique.

Using a large projection screen or easel, Jon speaks to any size audience. He draws and doodles rapidly, and demonstrates fun and easy ways to integrate reading, writing and drawing throughout the curriculum.

Grade Level:
K-12
Workshop cost (back to back):
$150.00
Performance cost (back to back):
$1400.00

Teaching Creatively in a World of Standards add to wish list

This professional development workshop inspires teachers and enhances assembly programs. Jon demonstrates exciting, practical ways teachers and students may turn drawing into a lifelong reading, writing and memory tool. Teachers will discover simple, energizing ways students may use drawing to see what they think, imagine what they read, personalize what they write, and doubule their learning across the curriculum.

Grade Level:
Adult
Performance cost (single):
$530.00
Performance cost (back to back):
$850.00