Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio: Arts Education Programming




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		Young Audiences Professional Development Workshops

		Incorporating the arts into classroom instruction improves teaching and learning. Young Audiences artists offer sessions designed to share skills and provide models for learning through the arts for groups of teachers or curriculum teams at a school or district location. Fee: $150/hour for up to 30 teachers, plus materials and travel fee if applicable. Fees negotiable for larger groups. For more information or to schedule a workshop, please call the Young Audiences office at 216-561-5005. Terry Boyarsky Dividing Space/Dividing Time: Discover how music and movement deepens student understanding of increment, ratio and proportion. This workshop will explore and model music and rhythm activities related to numbers and shapes and demonstrate how spatial movement activities enhance the study of diagrams, formulas and symbols. Audience: classroom teachers of grades 3-6 Stop, Look and Listen! An Exploration of Maps using Music and Movement: How many times a day do you call for “following directions?” Map reading also depends on the ability to attend, track, sequence, measure and draw symbols. Teachers will engage in movement and music activities to explore spatial orientation, distance and time. Audience: Classroom and music teachers of grades 2-5 Tom Evert of DancEvert Language Arts in Motion: Learn new ways to examine, interpret and improve comprehension of text and the study of figurative language and mood through stage-worthy activities and lessons based on elements of dance, creative movement and the artistic process. Audience: Classroom teachers of grades K-6 Jonathan Graham Tableau: A Dramatic Strategy for Language Arts: A tableau is a frozen picture created physically through the gestures, poses and expressions of the participants. Teachers discover techniques for creating human sculptures, B-M-E tableau, and pantomimes that electrify the teaching of the story elements: character, setting, plot, problem, events and resolution. Audience: Classroom teachers of grades 3-8 Robin Pease of Kulture Kids ACTive Listening: Drama Activities to Enhance Listening Comprehension: Develop student listening skills and comprehension. Teachers explore and model drama activities, ideas and techniques to improve student focus, attention and responses to oral presentations. Audience: All teachers of grades 3-6 PLAY, then WRITE: Dramatic Activities to Facilitate the Pre-Writing Process: This workshop provides theatrical tools to help all kinds of learners write. Examine ways to physicalize literary structure, bring it to life, and translate that physicality onto the page with graphic organizers to help students play, then write! Audience: Classroom teachers of grades 2-12 Anitra Redlefsen The Writer’s and the Artist’s Toolboxes: Sharing the Tools of the Trade: Explore the important tools that writers and artists share for creating their work. Using poetry, visual images and the writer/artist tools of observation, creation and communication, discover how to create visual images that have a clear idea, audience and purpose. Audience: Classroom and art teachers of grades 3-6 The Writer’s and the Artist’s Toolboxes Sensory Words and Art Elements: Similar to the above workshop, Anitra focuses here on the tool of sensory, descriptive words or phrases in the creation of poetry and visual images. Audience: Classroom teachers of grades 3-6; can be adapted for other grades Alexis Thynne Natural Connections Between Color and Math: Teachers explore activities that demonstrate how the basics of color theory and the process of mixing colors can support the instruction of patterns, gathering and organizing data, graphing, fractions, decimals and percentages. Audience: All teachers of grades K-8 George Woideck Creating Mosaics: Discussions and hands-on demonstrations explore the relationship between mosaics and symmetry, crystals and symmetrical forms in nature, and the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome and prepare teachers to lead students in the creation of a permanent mosaic or other classroom projects. Audience: All teachers of grades 5-8 Debra Wuliger Unlocking Creativity through Writing and Drawing: Stimulate students to be more expressive story tellers and illustrators! Explore the story elements while creating an action story as a group, and then discover how to use the drawing elements and the alphabet of art to create drawings and collages based on “what if” questions to illustrate the story. Audience: All teachers of grades 1-8 Other Opportunities YAGC offers other professional development opportunities throughout the school year, including a week-long Summer Institute offered for graduate credit through Cleveland State University. For more information or registration forms, visit here or call 216/561-5005. *This workshop was developed through the Ohio State-Based Collaborative Initiative, a program of the Kennedy Center's Partners in Education Program. Sponsors were the Ohio Kennedy Center Partners in Education teams (Sylvania, Wooster, Springfield, Findlay), Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, Ohio Arts Council, and VSA arts of Ohio.