CREATIVE ARTS FOR ALL offers 2 tracks – one for Teachers/Educators and one for students.
Click below under “PROGRAM” to learn more.
Instructors Contact:
Drama Therapist: Lori Rotolo, M.A., RDT rotolori@gmail.com (845)399-9290
Throughout her career, Lori has been fortunate to work in the health and human service field with children and families, in both direct service and management roles. As a drama therapist In therapeutic settings, Lori uses the expressive arts to promote emotional well-being with populations of diverse backgrounds, abilities and ages, providing creative opportunities for self-expression, while addressing behavioral, social and emotional challenges. Lori has been an adjunct professor teaching Creative Arts Integration in the Classroom and has taught Creative Dramatics to children and teens for over 25 years.
Music Therapist: Jamie Blumenthal, M.A., MT-BC musictherapy@msn.com (707)695-4145
Since 1982, Jamie Blumenthal, MA, MT-BC has worked in hospitals, schools, nursing homes and community settings providing music therapy for clients throughout the lifespan with developmental disabilities, acute and chronic psychiatric needs, medical needs, issues of aging and hospice, grief, and loss as well as offering sessions for wellness and personal/spiritual growth.
Please contact us to discuss the format and schedule of the workshop, class, or series that is right for you.
Windsor, CA 95492
CA
707-695-4145
Discover new ways to reach, teach, stimulate, engage and encourage students through interactive, creative learning experiences. Integrating creative arts into the classroom and providing experiential learning opportunities can address a variety of learning styles (the multiple intelligences model) and make curriculum and units come alive.
In this experiential series, we will explore ways to utilize creative drama, theatre games, storytelling, poetry, movement, and team-building and interactive games, to enrich the learning experience in your classroom. Providing opportunities for self-expression, creativity and spontaneity, can foster the development of language, cognitive, and motor skills; highlight individual strengths and talents; improve attention and concentration; invite creative problem solving; encourage teamwork and cooperation; and create an environment where active learning can take place.
Participants will learn ways to apply the creative arts to curriculum, subject themes and projects, to make learning (and teaching) fun. We will use class time also to brainstorm creative interventions to incorporate into your existing lesson plans.
This is an experiential class exploring interactive, creative, fun, activities, interventions and strategies to encourage self-expression, participation and foster group cooperation.
We will discover ways to utilize:
• Improvisation and Spontaneity
• Creative Drama
• Storytelling/Story Dramatization
• Language Arts/Poetry
• Sensory Awareness
• Learning through Music
• Rhythm game
• Art expression
• Movement/Non-verbal communication
• Interactive Games
• Arts for Art Sake
To reinforce curriculum/subject material and increase students’ understanding through active learning.
Incorporating creative arts into the classroom:
• Increases focus and attention
• Encourages creative self-expression
• Teaches active listening
• Allows us to see and appreciate other’s strengths and talents
• Builds trust and respect
• Develops mutually respectful relationships
• Promotes cooperative and supportive groups
• Acknowledges and incorporates diversity
Loretta Rotolo
(845)399-9290
rotolori@gmail.com
Open, flexible space for movement; chairs, large table.
whiteboard or flip chart
On site at school district; or community room space (free)
$1800