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)
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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, music, 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.
Together we will discover ways to utilize:
- Improvisation and spontaneity
- Creative Drama
- Storytelling/Story Dramatization
- Language Arts/Poetry
- Sensory Awareness
- Learning through Music
- Rhythm Games
- Art expression
- Movement/non-verbal communication
- Interactive Game
- Arts for Art Sake
The benefits of incorporating creative arts into the classroom include:
- Increases focus and attention
- Encourages creative self-expression
- Teaches active listening
- Builds trust and respect
- Supports multiple learning styles
- Acknowledges and incorporates diversity
- Promotes cooperative and supportive groups
- Develops mutually respectful relationships
- Allows us to see and appreciate other’s
- Offers multiple learning style
Instruction is offered as team by:
Jamie Blumenthal, M.A., MT-BC Board Certified Music Therapist and artist
Loretta Rotolo, M.A., LCAT, RDT Registered Drama Therapist: Licensed Creative Arts Therapist
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