Summer 2014 PLU Courses by AllianceTheatreInstitute

Summer 2014 PLU Courses: Drama as a Pathway to Common Core

Professional Learning Courses are aligned to Common Core State Standards

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 Woodruff Arts Center in Conference Room A/B located on the Balcony level of the Memorial Arts Building, unless otherwise indicated in the course description.

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1 Woodruff Arts Center Toddler Takeover

2 Woodruff Arts Center Toddler Takeover

3 Woodruff Arts Center Educator Conference

4 Woodruff Arts Center Educator Conference

5 Woodruff Arts Center Educator Conference

16 Dynamic Games for Learning (K-12) —Ruth McRee (week-long)

17 Dynamic Games for Learning (K-12) —Ruth McRee (week-long)

18 Dynamic Games for Learning (K-12) —Ruth McRee (week-long)

19 Dynamic Games for Learning (K-12) —Ruth McRee (week-long) Dramatic Mathematics (2 -5) - Nancy Meyer

20 Dynamic Games for Learning (K-12) —Ruth McRee (week-long) Gossett

23 Storytelling: Tell Me a Story… (K-12) - Barry Stewart Mann

26 27 Reinventing Shakespeare Newspaper Theatre: (6-12) - Rachel Jones Drama Bringing Social Studies to Life (K-6) Ebony Tucker

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7 Process Drama: It’s All in the Process (2-8) Barry Stewart Mann

9 Stage Makeup—Lindsey Ewing

10 11 Weaving Wolf Trap in Your Classroom (Pre-K – 1) - Sarah Cave

15 Exploring the Plays: Theatre for the Very Young (Pre School –K) Olivia Aston

16 Georgia Wolf Trap Story Basket: Bring the Story to Life (Pre-K -1) - Kim Baran

17 Inhabit the Social Sciences (6-12) - Valetta Anderson

18 19 Theatre Without the Theatrics: Readers Theatre (2 -8) - Barry Stewart Mann

Exploring the Plays: Theatre for Youth & Families (K -5) - Kim Baran Playwriting (7-12) - Neeley Gossett

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 literature 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 matter 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 teaching . . . 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 problem 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 provides opportunities to extend and continue academic 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

*Professional Learning Courses are aligned to Common Core State Standards

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 educator. 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 familiar stories, describing characters, settings and events, write original narratives, sequencing parts, participate in collaborative conversations, and express ideas and feelings. 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.

*Professional Learning Courses are aligned to Common Core State Standards

Reinventing Shakespeare – June 26, 2014 Grades: 6 - 12; Cost: $50 Rachel Jones This fun, interactive workshop provides 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 accessible to their students.

Newspaper Theatre: Drama Bringing Social Studies to Life – June 27, 2014 Grades: K - 6; Cost: $50 Ebony Tucker As a teacher, you are probably innovative and creative when teaching subjects and topics you’ve been teaching for years. As resourceful as you are, perhaps you are looking to add to your repertoire 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. *Professional Learning Courses are aligned to Common Core State Standards

Process Drama: It’s All In the Process – July 7, 2014 Grades: 2 - 8; Cost: $50 Barry Stewart Mann Come explore Process Drama, a fun, flexible, standards-aligned, and studentempowering strategy for using drama in the classroom and across the curriculum. Process 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 techniques, 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 wigmaking, preparation, and application of wigs and fake facial hair. *Professional Learning Courses are aligned to Common Core State Standards

Weaving Wolf Trap Early Learning through the Arts In Your Classroom â&#x20AC;&#x201C; July 10, 2014 Grades: Pre-K - 1; Cost: $50 Sarah Cave Early childhood educators will gain an understanding and application of effective strategies and arts experiences that have been tested and refined in preschool, Pre-K, kindergarten 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 apply to their classroom practice.

*Professional Learning Courses are aligned to Common Core State Standards

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

Exploring the Plays: Theatre for Youth and Families Production – July 14, 2014 Grades: K - 5; Cost: $50 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.

*Professional Learning Courses are aligned to Common Core State Standards

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, participants 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, manipulatives 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 process of Story Basket from creation to presentation.

*Professional Learning Courses are aligned to Common Core State Standards

Inhabit the Social Sciences: Put Dramatic Characters into Curriculum Settings – July 17, 2014 Grades: 6 - 12; Cost: $50 Valetta Anderson Social Science Teachers, grades 6‑12, will have hands on experience using playwriting and other playmaking 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 Grades: 2 - 8; Cost: $50 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 retelling, and, possibly, writing informative and narrative texts. Readers Theatre is a simple, fun, and teacherfriendly way to get students up and moving while still addressing Language 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 enhancement, sample scripts and resources, and ways to use the strategy in all aspects of teaching.

*Professional Learning Courses are aligned to Common Core State Standards

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 mary.alicenichols@woodruffcenter.org.

Professional Learning Courses are aligned to Common Core State Standards

We look forward to learning with you this summer!