Recharge: Active Learning through a Multicultural Lens- Enliven your teaching
- Expand your repertoire of active learning strategies
- Create positive social change through engaging students with multicultural literature
Join organizers Steve Kidd from the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre, and Eileen Landay and Laura Snyder from Brown University for this engaging professional development conference. Food, theater, active workshops! This conference is appropriate for 6th – 12th grade teachers of English and Social Studies, teacher education students, faculty, academic coaches, curriculum designers and teaching artists. Friday Evening- Community-building classroom activities with Gamm Education Director, Steve Kidd
- Catered dinner with like-minded colleagues
- Interactive presentation with theater director and social activist Jan Mandell from the Central Touring Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota
Saturday- Catered breakfast and lunch
- Scholar’s talk on multicultural literature to nurture your intellectual life
- Choice of 2 hands-on, minds-on workshops adaptable to any text you are teaching. This weekend’s text will be "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros.
- Director’s master class with Gamm Artistic Director, Tony Estrella, working with high school students.
Workshop optionsOff-the-charts Playmaking: with Steve Kidd and Karin Freed. Learn skills to translate a book to a dramatic text to a performance.
The Power of Perspective: with Laura Snyder and Daniel G. DeCelles. Explore the power of words, images and characterization to construct reader response to multicultural literature. Write character portraits and perform roles to develop understanding of role-taking and perspective.
Bringing Texts to Life: with Jan Mandell and Eileen Landay. Create deep understanding and critical responses to texts by creating and responding to collaborative physical images and movement.
Brown/Gamm Urban Teacher Collaborative Workshops are designed to help you recharge your teaching. Professional development credits available.
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