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Professional Development Workshops
We offer a variety of professional development workshops aimed at enabling school teaching staff to integrate arts-in-education into classroom curriculum. Workshops are one to two hours long and serve up to 30 participants and can take place in school, after school and on weekends.
Puppetry
A professional puppeteer with over twenty-five years of experience shows how puppets can be used to give a voice to students' thoughts and concerns. Puppets are particularly helpful in stimulating communication skills in ESL/LEP students and students with special needs.
Puppetry for Early Learning
This workshop focuses on creating puppets from easily obtained objects (paper plates, sponges) and using them to create expressive puppets. The process also promotes shape recognition and simple geometry. This is not just a paper plate stuck on the end of a stick!
Shadow puppetry
We have had remarkable success in teaching shadow puppetry to students in grades 1 and higher. This Asian method of performance uses articulated, flat cut-out shapes so the materials involved are low-cost and easily obtained.
Creating Scripts from Curriculum Sources
Teachers learn how to help their students create original scripts from existing texts such as novels and short stories, the curriculum (history books), or newspaper articles. Students will learn to discuss issues by filtering them through their own writing.
Storytelling
This workshop is all about learning how to tell a great story and appreciating oral narrative. Teachers explore sources of folk tales and ways to use them to reflect students' cultural heritage. Includes tips on creating original stories, and the use of props, sound effects, and other methods of engaging an audience.
Milk Carton Art
Participants will make mini-dioramas using old milk cartons, discuss the benefits of recycling, and find ways to turn trash and other no/low cost materials into art. Every school throws away thousands of these cartons each year. Turn yours into treasure!
Printmaking
Using household objects, fruits, and vegetables, teachers will learn simple and fun printing techniques to create their own printed images. These techniques require no specialized equipment such as printing presses.
Bookmaking
Participants create individual books and covers from common, low-cost materials such as cloth, string, foil, and recycled paper. The artist teaches techniques for making different types of books including comic strip, accordion, flip, and pop-up books.
Creative Movement
Participants will explore movement and rhythm in a classroom environment, learning how movement allows for self-expression, stress reduction, and encourages positive personal interactions.
Music and Rhythm
Jazz, Salsa, Merengue and other musical styles have common roots that become apparent through listening. Teachers will learn how to play certain percussion instruments. Apart from the music, the concepts discussed in the class will help teachers impart important lessons about diversity and the power of working together. Integrating music into literature, social studies, language, and visual arts curricula will be an important part of this session.
Mask-Making
Participants will explore a variety of mask-making techniques, will discuss making masks in papier mâché and will all make masks out of folded and cut paper. Masks have been used since the dawn of humankind to transform the wearer into whatever the imagination wills.
Circus Arts
Run away to the circus! We will show participants how to spin a plate on a stick or balance a peacock feather on their noses. Even better, teachers will learn how to teach their students to do this. Year after year, we amaze teachers who thought they would never be able to do it.
3-D Paper Sculpture
In this workshop, participants will learn how to create 3-Dimensional forms using nothing but cut and folded paper. This does not require the manual dexterity of Origami and so is suitable for even the youngest students.
Kite-Making as a Pathway to Science and Math
Learn about aerodynamics and the use of geometric principles while building a kite. Participants will learn to utilize angle measurements and rulers (properly!). We will also discuss the history and cultural significance of kite-flying across cultures.
Drawing
This is an introduction to self-portraiture and basic drawing from observation. Even the youngest students produce startling self portraits using mirrors to observe their own faces. Students use both pencil and oil pastels to create self- portraits and still-life studies.
Creative Dramatics
We will show teachers how to introduce students to basic aspects of dramatic art. Participants learn appropriate methods of self-expression and cooperative skills. Skits and improvisational skills, both comic and tragic, will be practiced.
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