Thursday, March 21, 2013
9:00 am to 3:00 pm
with an hour lunch break
Registration: FREE
CUNY Creative Arts Team
www.creativeartsteam.org
101 W. 31st Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10001
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Our apologies.
This workshop is currently at capacity.
If you are interested in being put on the waitlist, please send your contact information to: Helen.Wheelock@mail.cuny.edu.
We are now able to offer one final LEVEL 1 Interactive Storytelling for a minimal fee ($50) on Wednesday, May 29th 9-3pm.
To register, please click here.
Back by popular demand!
APPROACHING THE COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Interactive Storytelling and Emergent Literacy
in the Early Childhood Classroom (Level I)
Thursday, March 21, 2013
This FREE 5-Hour Professional Development has been developed with the support of the NYC Deptartment of Education Office of Early Childhood Education and JP Morgan/Chase Foundation.
Over the last five years, more than 1000 early childhood educators have participated in this training workshop, and the responses have been overwhelmingly positive:
“I love coming to CAT and learning. Every time I come out feeling like I will be a better teacher.”
-- Participating teacher
All participants earn a CUNY Certificate of Completion
DESCRIPTION: During this workshop, CAT facilitators will guide participants through a step-by-step process that will help them build an experiential and intellectual understanding of the power of oral storytelling in developing children's listening, speaking and language skills as outlined in the Common Core Standards.
CAT facilitators will model three forms of oral storytelling for teachers to demonstrate the progression from written word to active engagement – reading a storybook, telling a story based on a book and storytelling that engages an audience both physically and verbally -- drawing specific links to how each form impacts a child's literacy skills.
CAT will then mentor the teachers as they develop, practice and refine an interactive storytelling of their own based one of two picture books.
Particular attention will be paid to strengthening each teacher’s storytelling skills and identifying how specific techniques of audience participation support early childhood literacy and English acquisition.
Thoughout the process, teachers will be asked to reflect on what they have led, give and receive constructive criticism, and discuss future applications. The overarching goals throughout are to help the teachers work in a student-centered manner, use effective questioning, explore how to encourage and incorporate student’s responses, and tap into their own creativity.
Participating teachers and sites will be eligible to receive an on-site mentoring residency. (Click here to see a video about the residency and to hear from teachers who have participated in previous residencies.) During the five-day residency, CAT's professional actor/teachers will model interactive storytelling in the classroom and support classroom teachers as they design and implement their own literacy-based and English acquisition interactive storytelling lesson plan.
PLEASE NOTE: You can send as many teachers to as many sessions as you would like at NO COST to your site.
Led by Helen Wheelock, Director of the Early Learning Program
CAT (CUNY - Creative Arts Team) uses the power of drama to inspire lives.
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