INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING LEVEL 1 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 

LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE!

This 4.5-Hour Professional Development is offered through a collaboration between the CUNY Creative Arts Team and the United Federation of Teachers through the generous underwriting of the New York City Council and is offered at no cost.

When:
Thursday, January 26/2017
8:30am - 2pm

Where:
Brooklyn Borough Office, UFT
335 Adams Street
25th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201

All participants will receive a CUNY Certificate of Attendance. 

DESCRIPTION: During this workshop, participants will explore how interactive storytelling is key in developing children's  listening, speaking, and language skills as outlined in the Common Core Standards.

 

 

CAT facilitators will demonstrate three forms of oral storytelling: 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 on 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, explore how to encourage and  incorporate student’s responses, and tap into their own creativity.

Led by Helen Wheelock, Director of the Early Learning Program

 

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