Loretta Rotolo

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 Games
• Art Expression
• Movement/Non-verbal communication
• Interactive Games
• 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
• 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
• Offering multiple learning styles

Series: Classes can be offered as either
• 2 hours/week for 4 weeks to allow educators to “try out” the activities in the classroom, adapt and brainstorm ideas/methods that will enhance existing lesson plans and support educational goals. 8-15 participants.
• Full day workshop option – 9-4 pm

Instruction is offered as team by:

Loretta Rotolo, M.A., LCAT, RDT
Registered Drama Therapist; Licensed Creative Arts Therapist

Jamie Blumenthal, M.A., MT-BC
Board Certified Music Therapist