Arts Integration Network
This unique professional development opportunity helps you step outside your comfort zone, embracing new teaching tools to enhance your practice. This nurturing experience gives you valuable breathing space and support to learn to integrated arts into your curriculum without feeling like you are adding entirely new content to your already packed schedule. By observing and planning with our Master Teaching Artists, you'll leave with ready-to-use units that infuse a core subject with laughter, imagination, and deeper engagement. This is a hands-on experience where you actually practice what you are learning directly with groups of children. This active learning technique boosts vocabulary retention, addresses psycho-social learning, and exposes students to content in a whole new way!
2012 Summer Intensive:
Returning Teachers: June 11 – June 15 in Menlo Park (limited space available, space TBD), 8:30am to 12:00pm
New Teachers: June 18 – June 29 at Palo Alto High School, 8:30am to 12:00pm
To get the most out of your experience, teachers are encouraged to attend for two weeks, though exceptions are made for teachers with scheduling limitations.
One Week: $325
Two Weeks: $525
A typical day involves observing an participating as professional teaching artists work with elementary aged theatre campers. We then debrief about the games, lessons, strategies, and arts processes you observed and find ways to integrate them into academic content areas. Throughout each day a Master Teaching Artist and former elementary school teachers will model lessons that have proven successful in classrooms. Stay for the second week to plan a complete and shareable arts integrated unit of study and practice your ideas with campers at your grade level.
To learn more, email mary@theatreworks.org, or call 650.463.7134.
The Arts Integration Network Review
Read the highlights about our award winning Professional Development mentorship program. This quarterly review contains lesson plan designs, arts integration advocacy, and ideas galore to enrich and activate your lesson plans.
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Arts Integration Advocacy
TheatreWorks is dedicated to promoting the many ways that theatre enhances student learning, both as an arts integrated option and as a skills-focused stand alone activity. Here we have collected the most credible and useful arts advocacy reports. These reading materials support your urge to bring the arts back into your school.
Reinvesting in Arts Education: Winning America's Future Through Creative Schools
By the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities
