Professional Development
Services for Educators
We've heard you ask for teaching strategies you can use "tomorrow." Our staff of theatre professionals presents at conferences and leads staff development workshops on the district, state, and national levels. We work with K-12 curriculum, tailoring each in-service sequence to the participants' needs and goals.
WORKSHOPS
- Using drama-based activities to teach K-12 curriculum: theatre and movement games, writing exercises, improvisation, and informal script readings.
- Classroom strategies to build trust, elicit complex thinking, promote constructive peer- and self-evaluation, reward risk-taking and channel physical energy.
- Teaching elements of drama, movement, and playwriting, along with basic acting techniques.
- Exploring issues and building strategies such as:
- Classroom management-What works for you? What makes you uncomfortable?
- Control-Handling sensitive subjects, inviting candor, and maintaining boundaries.
- Being the expert-How to use drama-based activities without being a drama expert.
- Assessment-Creative ways to evalutate your growth as well as your students' work.
INDIVIDUAL SERVICES FOR TEACHERS
- Classroom observation and consultation.
- Provide bibliographies, curriculum outlines and sample activities for using drama and writing exercises.
- Our published curriculum, STAGE WRITE, is available at Interact.
