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will provide overviews of an exhibition-based school, including scheduling,
collaboration, and school-wide assessment policies, exhibition process,
including strategies for planning, collaborating, assessment, and execution.
Participants will leave with an understanding of the basics of creating
exhibitions, strategies for adapting this way-of-doing to their own schools,
and ideas and inspiration. This session is appropriate for core curriculum
teachers who are interested in creating arts-based cross-curriculum projects,
drama teachers who are interested in collaborating with core-curriculum
teachers, and anyone in a school community interested in hearing.
How can teachers first build creative capacity in beginning students and
sustain creativity for more advanced students? This paper will describe two
models: Phase Model of Creative Development in Beginning Secondary
Students and Sustained Creative Achievement in Secondary Students. Drawn
from research, the models explore the overlapping relationships among
Competence, Confidence, Sense of Community and Creative Capacity--the
essential building blocks of Creative Achievement in high school theatre
(and in many other fields as well.) The Audience members will be invited to
comment and reflect on the two models during and after the presentation.
Diverse Teaching Perspectives and Methods
Chair: Jean Prall Rosolino, Youth Stages, LLC
Presenters: Margaret Boersma, Freelance Educational Consultant
Location: Denver 3rd – Mt. Oxford
Navigating Rocky Terrain: Original Undergraduate Research in Theatre
Education
Chair: Matt Omasta, Utah State University
Presenters: Colin Anderson, Utah State University; Ryan Erwin, Utah State
University; Hayley Hill, Utah State University; Nicole Martineau, Utah State
University; Andrea Thomas, Utah State University
Location: Denver 2nd-Crestone Peak
Actor-Educators (Teaching Artists) from two different “theatres” (and two
different countries!) have been given the theme “Acceptance of Differences”
as a lesson plan topic. Jean Prall Rosolino with Youth Stages in the U.S. will
address the topic through story dramatization and language arts integration
for preschool to 2nd grade. Margaret Boersma, veteran elementary teacher,
now Freelance Educational Consultant in Canada, will approach the topic
through movement, social studies and language arts integration for 3rd5th grade. These two individuals will take session participants through their
lesson plans- their “take” on the topic. Come experience different lesson
planning approaches to a single theme and have new strategies to bring to
your work tomorrow.
From Coach to Teacher: The “Two-Step” of Arts Integration
Chair: Noah Martin, Austin Independent School District, Creative Learning
Initiative
Presenters: Sloan McLain, Austin Independent School District, Creative
Learning Initiative
Location: Atrium 2nd - Grays Peak A
What does it take to move a teacher? A school? An entire district? The
Creative Learning Initiative is a district wide ar