Early Childhood
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Arts Integration in Action
90 minute to full dayThis is an overview workshop of structures that may be used to provide arts-based expressions of understanding in all curricular areas. The teachers’ ability to reach students of varied learning styles and capabilities will be enhanced, while the divergent thinking required for students to make meaning in multiple ways will be promoted through the implementation of these ideas. This work is accessible for all types of teachers, and will provide assessment tools suited to these experiential modes of learning.
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Creative Differentiation
1 to 6 hour sessionsDifferentiation is the ongoing challenge of every classroom teacher. This workshop will provide creativity-based mechanisms to add to your differentiation toolbox, allowing for students with a wider range of learning styles to successfully understand and express their understandings in your classroom.
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Creative Structures for Teaching Science
1 to 3 hour SessionsCreative, critical thinking is the hallmark of good education. This workshop will focus on simple ways to add creative structures to your current planning for teaching science objectives. Using experiential strategies for teaching science curriculm, we will promote complex thinking while adding lots of creative fun to your classroom!
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Creative Structures in the Curriculum
Any LengthCreative, critical thinking is the hallmark of good education. This workshop will focus on simple ways to add creative structures to your current planning. This is experientially based work that can be used in multiple curricular areas. Promote complex thinking while adding lots of creative fun to your classroom!
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Language and Rhythm
1 to 4 hour SessionsLiteracy is a basic building block of all learning, and for children that struggle in this area, often all of schooling is frustrating and difficult. In this workshop, we will move literacy goals into the realms of sound and rhythm, making them accessible to many of these struggling learners. Building on rhythmic fluency can support fluency in reading, poetry, and writing, and build a bridge to more traditional forms of expression.
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Movement and Sound-Based Aproaches to the Early Childhood Curriculum
One to Six hour SessionsMovement and sound use the child’s natural affinities to develop the physical and mental capacities needed for educational and life challenges. In this workshop, we’ll explore devices and structures that playfully engage the young child in this way, and are accessible to all early childhood educators.
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Singing to Learn: A Multicultural Approach to Early Childhood Curriculum
3 hoursEarly ChildhoodThis workshop was developed in association with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
World cultures have much to offer the Early Childhood classroom. We will learn to use songs and games from all over the world to support emergent literacy and developmental domains, as well as to serve specific classroom functions. These joyous games that children have played for hundreds of years support brain function in ways that our technological generation of children do not experience, while enriching our experience of ourselves as members of the wider global community.
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Tellin' Tales: Taking Stories to the Next Level in the Early Childhood Classroom
3 hoursEarly ChildhoodThis workshop was developed in association with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Are you looking for new ways to share stories in the classroom so students are actively engaged? In this workshop, discover how to add participatory techniques, such as sounds, rhymes, chants, songs and movement, to stories so that students are active contributors to the story experience. These strategies help develop your storytelling skills that support your efforts to target a range of learning objectives, including emergent literacy social, motor, and cognitive development in the early childhood classroom.