Posted Saturday September 28 2013 at 3:25 pm
This 3-day professional development webinar series is designed to introduce classroom teachers, special education teachers, and teaching artists specific drama activities that create strong collaborative learning communities. Each strategy helps build students' social skills (concentration, cooperation, eye contact, active listening) and engages all students, with and without disabilities.
- Webinar 1: Building Community Through Theatre: Mirrors - Monday, September 30, 2013
- Webinar 2: Building Community Through Theatre: Yes! - Tuesday, October 1, 2013
- Webinar 3: Building Community Through Theatre: Yes, and . . . - Thursday, October 3, 2013
All webinars are 4:30 - 5:30 PM Eastern Time
Advance registration is required. Once registered you will receive an email confirmation with information needed to join the Webinar.
For additional details including presenters, system requirements, videos, and handouts visit the Arkansas Arts Council website.
Posted Tuesday September 03 2013 at 07:20 am
A professional learning community tailored to your needs as an arts educator . . .
- Learn effective inclusive strategies using the arts.
- Collaborate with peer arts educators.
- Examine literacy through drama and dance.
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY
The Embodying Literacy professional development program will enable 12 BPS Arts Teachers to explore arts integration strategies to support literacy and inclusion of students with and without disabilities. Through discussions with fellow participants and coaching from the instructors, participants will develop inclusive, arts-integrated literacy curricula based on Dance, Drama and English Language Arts Common Core standards. The program is open to arts teachers in any discipline, but will focus on drama and dance techniques and processes. It will be led by two VSA MA master teaching artists; dance instructor Priscilla Harmel, M.Ed, BC-DMT and drama instructor Marianne Adams, M.Ed.; both faculty members at Lesley University. Each participant will receive a $400 stipend and up to 23 PDPs after completing the program between November 2013 - June 2014.
First Meeting: Saturday, November 16th 9:30 - 3:30
Location: The NonProfit Center, 89 South Street #101, Boston, MA 02111
*Four additional meeting dates and locations will be decided by each cohort of teachers
Register by Friday, October 4th on BPS My Learning Plan
Contact education@vsamass.org or 617.350.7713 for more information.
This program is made possible through a generous award granted by the BPS Arts Expansion Initiative.
Posted Sunday August 25 2013 at 6:20 pm
The air is crisp, school supplies are arriving on store shelves and the VSA MA team is gearing up for another great year of transformation through the arts in our COOL Schools program. During the summer we have the opportunity to reflect on learnings from last year and to celebrate successes both for individual students and for school communities as a whole. As we read through teacher reflections, our mission was reaffirmed in the words of the teachers.
A teacher working with high school students in an institutional setting saw the power of the poetry and spoken word to build self expression and engagement in writing. She explained that, "Some [students] were reluctant to express and share their thoughts and feelings at first but all became proud of what they accomplished and we saw significant emotional growth and self-awareness in all, plus-writing became a positive experience! (Many hated writing at first)." As we continue to work with these students next year, we hope to see their comfort with writing increase and the artist within each of them grow.
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