YA Virtual Professional Learning Series – Register Now!

Photo Caption: YA teaching artist Genese Martin engaging with students and educators in a “Theatre to Learn” Residency.

WORKSHOP SERIES

Experience – Understand – Create – Connect

“THE TRAINING WAS SO FUN AND GAVE ME SO MANY PRACTICAL IDEAS and I’m really looking forward to sharing The Writing Process with my older kids.”
– Kristen Arant, Educator

Young Audiences’ professional learning workshops give educators innovative tools for reaching all students while tapping into their own creativity. Programs focus on four important areas that support a teacher’s effectiveness in the classroom:

• Establishing a Culture of Learning
• Engaging All Learners
• Building Community
• Enhancing Skills

Join YA’s engaging and supportive workshop series and add to your 100-hour teacher professional development requirement.

Discounted fees when you register for three or more workshops!
One Workshop: $50, Two Workshops: $100
Three Workshops: $125, Four Workshops: $149

REGISTER NOW!

Photo Caption: Kate Sclavi engaging with educators in a professional learning workshop.

WORKSHOP ONE:
Empower the Creative Self! Bring Arts Integration into the Virtual Classroom
Teaching Artist: Kate Sclavi
March 10, 2021 | 2:30pm-4pm
Workshop Fee: $50

In this workshop teachers gain a deeper understanding of Arts Enhancement and Arts Integration. The program explores teaching methods and materials used to integrate the arts (visual art, creative movement, music, and theatre) as creative strategies to teach academic subjects in the K-12 curriculum. A focus is placed on process-based creative exploration, curriculum writing, and supporting creative practices as emergent research.

Professional Standards for Educational Leaders:
Standard 4: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

Recommended Participants:
Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Arts Specialists, Principals and Supervisors

Recommended Grades:
Elementary School (K-3), Middle School (4-8), High School (9-12)

Photo Caption: YA teaching artist Mark Wong connecting with educators and artists in a professional learning workshop for YA’s Creativity Consultant Project.

WORKSHOP TWO:
Hip Hop Dance in your Virtual Classroom
Teaching Artist: Mark Wong
March 24, 2021 | 4:00pm-5:30pm
Workshop Fee: $50

This workshop introduces hip hop dance into the virtual classroom space as a tool to explore thematic content and assess student understanding. Participants experience hip hop dance as an opportunity to have fun, reflect, discuss, and analyze creative teaching strategies.

Professional Standards for Educational Leaders:
Standard 4: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

Recommended Participants:
Teachers, Dance Arts Specialists

Recommended Grades:
Elementary School (PK-3), Middle School (4-8)

Photo Caption: YA teaching artist Laura Marchese supporting an educator in YA’s Creativity Consultant Project.

WORKSHOP THREE:
Get Up and Learn! Use Movement in the Live or Virtual Classroom
Teaching Artist: Laura Marchese
March 31, 2021 | 4:00pm-5:30pm
Workshop Fee: $50

In this workshop teachers experience and understand the Elements of Dance as they explore their individual creativity. Participants examine and analyze ways in which online platforms can be maximized to engage students and become positive spaces for encouraging creativity and new ways of looking at the world.

Professional Standards for Educational Leaders:
Standard 3: Equity & Culture,
Standard 4: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

Recommended Participants:
Teachers, Arts Specialists

Recommended Grades:
Elementary School (PK-3), Middle School (4-8)

Photo Caption: YA teaching artist Bomani with inspired educators at his professional learning workshop “Hip Hop Culture Empowers Student Writing and Communication.”

WORKSHOP FOUR:
Hip Hop Culture Empowers Student Writing and Communication
Teaching Artist: Bomani
April 7, 2021 | 4:00pm-5:30pm
Workshop Fee: $50

In this virtual professional learning program, Baba Bomani supports teachers in using aspects of hip hop art and culture to create an engaging learning environment. This active workshop guides teachers to lead rhyme-based strategies to build student writing and communication skills using the five steps of the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, publishing).

Professional Standards for Educational Leaders:
Standard 3: Equity & Culture,
Standard 4: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

Recommended Participants:
Teachers, Arts Specialists

Recommended Grades:
Middle School (4-8), High School (9-12)

REGISTER NOW!