Summer 2014 PLU Courses

Summer 2014 PLU Courses:

Drama as a Pathway to Common Core

Professional Learning Courses are aligned to

Common Core State Standards

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Woodruff Arts Center

Toddler Takeover

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Toddler Takeover

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Educator Conference

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Educator Conference

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Educator Conference

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Dynamic Games for

Learning (K-12) —Ruth

McRee (week-long)

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Dynamic Games for


McRee (week-long)

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Dynamic Games for


McRee (week-long)

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Dynamic Games for


McRee (week-long)

Dramatic Mathematics (2

-5) - Nancy Meyer

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Dynamic Games for


McRee (week-long)

Gossett

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Storytelling: Tell Me a

Story… (K-12) - Barry

Stewart Mann

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25

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Reinventing Shakespeare

(6-12) - Rachel Jones

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Newspaper Theatre:

Drama Bringing Social

Studies to Life (K-6) -

Ebony Tucker

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29 30

June 2014 Courses will be offered for two

weeks in June and July from

9:30a—3:30p and will result in

five professional learning hours

or 1/2 PLU Credit unless indi-

cated as a week-long or half day

course. The week–long course

will be from 9:30a – 4p and will

result in three PLU Credits.

Courses will be held at the

Woodruff Arts Center in Confer-

ence Room A/B located on the

Balcony level of the Memorial

Arts Building, unless otherwise

indicated in the course descrip-

tion.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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6 7

Process Drama: It’s All

in the Process (2-8) -

Barry Stewart Mann

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Stage Makeup—Lindsey

Ewing

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Weaving Wolf Trap in

Your Classroom (Pre-K –

1) - Sarah Cave

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12

13 14

Exploring the Plays: Thea-

tre for Youth & Families (K

-5) - Kim Baran

Playwriting (7-12) - Neeley

Gossett

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Exploring the Plays:

Theatre for the Very

Young (Pre School –K) -

Olivia Aston

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Georgia Wolf Trap Story

Basket: Bring the Story

to Life (Pre-K -1) - Kim

Baran

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Inhabit the Social Sci-

ences (6-12) - Valetta

Anderson

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Theatre Without the The-

atrics: Readers Theatre (2

-8) - Barry Stewart Mann

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27 28 29 30 31

July 2014 Courses will be offered for two

weeks in June and July from

9:30a—3:30p and will result in

five professional learning hours or

1/2 PLU Credit unless indicated

as a week-long or half day course.

The week–long course will be

from 9:30a – 4p and will result in

three PLU Credits.

Courses will be held at the Wood-

ruff Arts Center in Conference

Room A/B located on the Balcony

level of the Memorial Arts Build-

ing, unless otherwise indicated in

the course description.

Dynamic Games for Learning – June 16 -20,

2014

Grades: K – 12; Cost: $215

Ruth McRee Restore your passion for teaching –

Use drama strategies that excite your students about

learning –

Discover how to bring social studies, science and lit-

erature to life through carefully designed drama

“games” that engage students in active participation!

Connect content with drama, music, writing and art

through storytelling, role-play, re-enactments, and

“sculpting”. Connect students with your subject mat-

ter through the fun of discovery. Lead your students to

deep learning that is meaningful, fulfills the Common

Core Curriculum - and is satisfying for you as a

teacher.

“This training changed my whole aspect of teach-

ing . . . For the first time in 6 years, I was excited about teaching . . . students looked

forward to this time every day. As a result, 79% of my class passed the science state test

and 92% passed the social studies state test.”

*Professional Learning Courses are aligned to Common Core State Standards

Dramatic Mathematics – June 19, 2014

Grades: 2 – 5; Cost: $50 (Circle Room)

Nancy Meyer Drama builds student engagement and intrinsic desire to learn by involving students in a

creative, stimulating way that values students’ original ideas and strengthens their prob-

lem solving skills. It is a natural fit for “Math Talk” time and large group instruction

and, once introduced, leads into small groups and centers. Drama helps students who

struggle with language comprehension and pro-

vides opportunities to extend and continue aca-

demic conversations.

At the end of this session, participants will be

able to…

Find math concepts in stories not written

specifically to teach math

Create characters from stories and original

characters

Design activities for students to explore

math concepts through dramatization of key

moments in stories

Apply standards for mathematical practice to

other curriculum areas with a focus on theatre

arts


Storytelling: Tell Me a Story… – June 23, 2014

Grades: K - 12; Cost: $50

Barry Stewart Mann Children love stories, and storytelling can be an essential pedagogical tool for any edu-

cator. The Common Core ELA standards discuss, among other elements, an awareness

of “the varying demands of audience, task, purpose and discipline” in communication,

and the need to “understand other perspectives and cultures;” at all grade levels, the

standards for “Reading Literary Texts” invoke stories and story elements and analysis.

In this course, we’ll explore the power of stories to forge emotional connections with

content and curriculum; look at strategies for finding, learning, remembering, and telling

stories; identify types of stories – folklore, historical narratives, original stories, personal

anecdotes, literary tales; and explore how storytelling can be integrated throughout the

curriculum – to introduce, enliven, elaborate, and reinforce content. We’ll look at how

the art of oral storytelling to help students identify main ideas and key details, retell fa-

miliar stories, describing characters, settings and events, write original narratives, se-

quencing parts, participate in collaborative conversations, and express ideas and feel-

ings. The human mind is built for stories – it is the way we process information, and can

be a vital tool in helping students to imagine, empathize, and think critically.


Reinventing Shakespeare – June

26, 2014

Grades: 6 - 12; Cost: $50

Rachel Jones This fun, interactive workshop pro-

vides the tools necessary to deconstruct

a Shakespearean text and remake it

through a modern lens. With this

course, educators will be able to help

make Shakespearean text more acces-

sible to their students.


Newspaper Theatre: Drama

Bringing Social Studies to

Life – June 27, 2014


Ebony Tucker As a teacher, you are probably in-

novative and creative when teach-

ing subjects and topics you’ve

been teaching for years. As re-

sourceful as you are, perhaps you

are looking to add to your reper-

toire another method of teaching

Social Studies and discussing

world events. In this workshop,

we’ll use various forms of media

and drama to explore the content of relevant children’s books and articles. You don’t

have to be an actress or a director to use the drama techniques you will explore. Bring

social studies to life in this session, and you will leave with the confidence to implement

Newspaper theatre and other techniques into your curriculum.

Process Drama: It’s All In the Process – July 7, 2014


Barry Stewart Mann Come explore Process Drama, a fun, flexible, standards-aligned, and student-

empowering strategy for using drama in the classroom and across the curriculum. Proc-

ess Drama begins with a story or text, but views and develops it through a variety of

lenses and processes that involve imagining possibilities beyond what is already given.

Process Drama fits perfectly with Common Core emphases on close reading, attention to

details, and, especially, awareness of multiple points-of-view. If you have ever enjoyed

seeing a character put on trial, imagined what happens after ‘The End’, or conceived the

parallel story of a character only barely mentioned in the text, then you will appreciate

the amazing potential of Process Drama for deepening engagement, comprehension,

creativity, and collaboration, and bringing Critical Literacy into the classroom. In this

workshop, we’ll delve into the philosophy behind process drama, explore specific tech-

niques, experience sample lessons, and begin to apply the learning to original lessons in

our own curricula.


Stage Makeup – July 9, 2014

Cost: $50

Lindsey Ewing Get hands on with demonstrations and application techniques. Learn about custom built

wigs, facial hair, light prosthetics, character, fantasy, aging, basics in male and female

makeup for stage, and realistic special effects. The workshop also gives more advanced

learning in how to use highlighting and contouring to create different face shapes and

adjust for smaller or larger theaters. It will also give opportunity to learn about wigmak-

ing, preparation, and application of wigs and fake facial hair.

Weaving Wolf Trap Early Learning through the Arts In Your Classroom –

July 10, 2014

Grades: Pre-K - 1; Cost: $50

Sarah Cave Early childhood educators will gain an understanding and application of effective strate-

gies and arts experiences that have been tested and refined in preschool, Pre-K, kinder-

garten and 1st grade classrooms by teachers, teaching assistants, Wolf Trap Teaching

Artists and of course, children.

The Wolf Trap STAGES book and CD are the primary resources for this workshop.

Presentation of materials will include modeling/demonstration teaching, guided practice/

coaching, group, paired and individual work. Participants will come away from the

workshop with an array of chants, songs, activities and lesson ideas to immediately ap-

ply to their classroom practice.


Playwriting for Teachers and Students – July 14, 2014

Grades: 7 – 12; Cost: $50 (Circle Room)

Neeley Gossett This exciting workshop gives you the tools to teach playwriting in the high school and

upper middle school classroom by helping each participant to understand the basic proc-

ess of playwriting and become able to use it in their classroom.

Exploring the Plays: Theatre for Youth

and Families Production – July 14, 2014


Kim Baran Step behind the curtain and get an insider’s

view of the Alliance Theatre’s Theatre for

Youth and Families production for 2014-15.

This interactive workshop includes everything

from reading the script and enacting scenes to

in-depth drama strategies, all through the lens

of the Core Curriculum that link the play to

your students.


Exploring the Plays: Theatre for the Very

Young – July 15, 2014

Grades: Pre-School – K; Cost: $50

Olivia Aston This exciting workshop gives you an insider’s

view of the Theatre for the Very Young plays of the

2014-15 season. After reviewing the scripts, par-

ticipants become actors in a scene from the play,

developing a personal view of the characters. This

interactive workshop includes drama strategies that

can be taken back to the classroom and used with

students to enhance their experience of the play,

including exploring the music of the play through

hands on activities. All participants receive drama

strategy handouts and lots of great ideas to use in

the classroom.

Georgia Wolf Trap Story Basket: Bringing the Story to Life– July 16, 2014

Grades: Pre – K - 2; Cost: $50

Kim Baran Bring stories to life sing the “Story Basket” a dynamic

GA Wolf Trap strategy using objects, pictures, ma-

nipulatives and creative drama to introduce a story and story elements in Pre-K through

2nd grade classrooms. Participants in this interactive workshop will experience the proc-

ess of Story Basket from creation to presentation.


Inhabit the Social Sci-

ences: Put Dramatic

Characters into Curricu-

lum Settings – July 17,

2014


Valetta Anderson Social Science Teachers,

grades 6‑12, will have hands

on experience using play-

writing and other playmak-

ing techniques to increase

their students’ understanding

of the Social Sciences by

enlivening and personalizing a Content Area Framework through its scripting and enactment.

Participants are asked to bring their or their students’ LEAST favorite Social Science Content

Area Framework.

Theatre Without the Theatrics: Readers Theatre – July 18, 2014


Barry Stewart Mann How do we get our students reading, out loud, together or individually, with expression, poise,

confidence and focus? With Readers Theatre! Readers Theatre is a versatile drama strategy,

great for both emerging and established readers, that addresses Common Core standards for

finding contextual meaning, recognizing genres, understanding point-of-view, engaging with

multiple versions of a text, participating in collaborative conversations, recounting and retell-

ing, and, possibly, writing informa-

tive and narrative texts. Readers

Theatre is a simple, fun, and teacher-

friendly way to get students up and

moving while still addressing Lan-

guage Arts objectives head on, and it

can be used with content and texts

from across the curriculum. In this

workshop, we’ll explore Readers

Theatre basics, options for enhance-

ment, sample scripts and resources,

and ways to use the strategy in all

aspects of teaching.


We look forward to learning with you this summer!

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.alliancetheatre.org/plu or contact Mary Alice Nichols, Program Coordinator, Alliance Theatre Institute for Educators and Teaching Artists at (404) 733-4703 or by email at [email protected].

Professional Learning Courses are aligned to Common Core State Stan-

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Summer 2014 PLU Courses