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Professional Development Workshops for Educators

These workshops were developed in association with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is partially underwritten by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Committee for the Performing Arts, The Kennedy Center Corporation Fund, and the Bank of America Charitable Foundation.

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Special Education: Movement Strategies for Inclusion (Pre K)

August 21, 2007
Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese
DRAMA ACROSS THE CURRICULUM (two workshops)
Workshop Leader: Lenore Blank Kelner, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
For Teachers of Grades 1-6
3 hours of instruction time
Maximum number of workshop participants: 45 each
Registration information is available through the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese

This workshop offers a multitude of strategies for integrating drama into the teaching of every subject from science to social studies to math. Teachers learn drama warm-up activities that can be used to teach geometry, tableau to explore history, and role drama to teach science concepts.

LENORE BLANK KELNER is a professional actress, director, author, and educator. Since 1981, Ms. Kelner has directed her own educational theater company, Interact Story Theatre. Interact performs in schools, museums, libraries, and theaters all over the United States. In addition, Ms. Kelner serves as an education consultant to the Maryland State Department of Education as well as school systems and schools nationwide. She has trained thousands of teachers in how to integrate drama into everyday classroom instruction. She has worked with students in all grade levels from Pre K through college. Her most recent book, A Dramatic Approach to Reading Comprehension, which she co-authored, was published by Heinemann in 2006. She is the recipient of the 2004 Creative Drama Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.

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January 29, 2008
Pittsburgh Public Schools
Workshop Title: TBA
Workshop Leader: TBA
For Teachers of Grades : TBA
6 hours of instruction time
Maximum number of workshop participants: 50
* Registration information is available through the Pittsburgh Public School District

Workshop description – TBA

Presenters BIO – TBA

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October 8, 2007
Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies Through Visual Art
Workshop Leader: Sandi Hammonds, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
For Teachers: Grades 5-12
Art Form: Visual Art
Connection to Educational Area: Language Arts
* Open only to teachers from AUI3 participating districts
** Registration online at http://boss.aiu3.net

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October 8, 2007
PAISTA - Pittsburgh Area Independent School Teachers Association
Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies Through Visual Art
Workshop Leader: Sandi Hammonds, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
For Teachers: Grades 5-12
Art Form: Visual Art
Connection to Educational Area:Language Arts
Registration information will be available at school in September

How can students gain skills in questioning and making inferences from a text? In this workshop, the “text” is a work of visual art. Beginning with a visual image allows students to learn the skills that they will apply later to more abstract texts (language). In this workshop, teachers examine techniques for helping students develop their questioning strategies – posing relevant questions to gather information and progressing to more in-depth inquiry about the artwork. Teachers will be able to help students engage in higher levels of thinking as they guide them in examining unfamiliar objects and making inferences about the people and the culture that produce them.

SANDI HAMMONDS is a National Board Certified Teacher in Early Adolescence/Young Adulthood Art with 37 years of teaching experience. She was a member of the writing team for the Virginia Standards of Learning in the arts and has worked extensively on visual art curriculum for Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia. She had conducted a variety of workshops and in-service training programs for K-university teachers of visual art, English, foreign language, and social studies. She is currently an adjunct at George Washington University and George Mason University where she teaches courses in methods for teaching and curriculum development. Ms. Hammonds is a painter and printmaker, and her studio work involves research into the artistic/cultural connections of indigenous peoples to their land. Her current artistic focus is on Mexico, Central and South America and the related social and cultural issues, which she expresses through her paintings.