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Logistics
Recommended book(s) or materials: The Word in Play: Language, Music, and Movement in the Classroom, Second Edition
Seminar length: 1-3 days
Number of participants: 10 to 50
Who will benefit from this seminar: General and special educators, music and language arts specialists, reading teachers, art and physical education teachers, school administrators, psychologists, college and graduate students, parents, and primary and secondary studentsSpeaker Fees: (What do fees include?)
1 day: $3300-–$3850
3 days: $6050
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Adults also benefit from experimenting with creative expression! Bring The Word in Play to your business or organization. Ms. Katz and Ms. Thomas are experienced at gearing their seminars to a variety of audiences.
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Seminar Description
Explore the benefits and joys of integrating the arts into education! In this exciting hands-on seminar, Susan Katz and Judith Thomas lead participants in creating poetry through poetic techniques, and then explore how the original poems might be extended through music and movement.
From this seminar, participants will discover how to
- reenergize their classrooms by fostering students’ self-expression
- invigorate language arts instruction through poetry, music, and movement
- incorporate the arts into school curricula
- blur the lines between subject areas in creative ways
- create a playful and self-revelatory educational environment.
Participants will begin with an introduction to enhanced language play (free-verse poetry) and an exploration of poetic techniques (metaphor, simile, alliteration, etc.). Then, as a group, they’ll practice creative expression and poetic composition. These lively exercises will show participants the connections between art forms, demonstrate how to layer music and movement into the creative process, and illuminate how words can be enriched and translated in multiple directions involving rhythm, repetition, melody, speech, and play. In the concluding activities, participants often develop and share original creative works in the form of mini-theater pieces. These creative efforts often become a “bonding experience” for participants, thereby showing them how the activities will improve student relationships in the classroom.
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