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Professional Development: Art
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Last Updated 11/24/03 Professional Development: Humanities Enchanted Circle
Theater Institute BETWEEN THE CANALS: The Evolution of a Mill Town Enchanted Circle Theater is widely recognized as one of the finest educational theater companies in New England. Our productions are cross-cultural and multidisciplinary, integrating music, dance, theater, literature and the visual arts. Our programs have inspired teachers to say: "You are proof of how exciting education can be!" and students to say: "You made me want to come to school!" Enchanted Circle Theater's programs are designed to engage student learners and educators by using creativity as a learning tool. Professional touring productions for grades K-6 focus on world cultures, performances for grades 4-8 focus on science and literature. Our reading incentive programs bring professional actors into an intimate classroom setting to share their love of reading. ECT tours six full scale productions to schools and cultural institutions, offers a wide array of artist-in-residence programs, creative arts workshops and teacher training symposia, and collaborates with human service agencies on projects relating to social issues. "Brown vs. Board of Education Essay Contest" National History Day (NHD), in cooperation with the Commission for the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision Brown v Board of Education, invites students in grades 6-12 to participate in a national essay contest in conjunction with the National History Day competition. As part of the 2003-2004 National History Day program, students are encouraged to write an essay with supporting research that examines the Brown decision and its ongoing impact. The essay must relate to theme "Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History" and should follow the National History Day rules for the paper category. The student does not have to relate to every part of theme (i.e. exploration and encounter and exchange in history), but can focus on only one part of the theme (i.e. encounters in history). Papers selected at district or regional National History Day contests to advance to the state contest are eligible to compete in the special Brown v Board essay contest.A student whose essay qualifies for the state NHD contest should submit three copies of their essay by April 1, 2004. For more information visit the web. WGBY 413-781-2801x281 To register for classes, please visit us online at or call 413.781.2801 and ask for Karen Sullivan or Laurie Leichthammer Email cit@wgby.org Center for Instructional Technologies (CIT) Schedule Teacher line On-Line Courses For more info, send an email to teacherserv@wgby.org. For more information and descriptions please visit the web site. Drop-in hours: Tuesdays and Thursday from 3-5pm. Please arrive by 4:30 so we have adequate time to assist you. PBS TeacherSource Relaunch LENDING LIBRARY: Our video lending library is always expanding! If you would like to borrow videos, visit our web site at www.wgby.org/edu to reserve them. Educators can borrow up to three videos at a time for up to three weeks. Smith College Museum of Art Ann Musser, Associate Curator of Education 413-585-3109 K - 12 School Tours at SCMA: Playing House Tuesday-Friday October 28-December 11, 2003 Playing House is a tour of Undomesticated Interiors, an exhibition that remodels the familiarity of home into a playful exploration of who we are and how we live. Groups will discuss homes, both real and imagined, as they look at fabulously decorated life-size art installations by renowned contemporary artists such as Liza Lou, Sandy Skoglund, and Do Ho Suh. This tour is interactive and age-appropriate, with different themes and activities for elementary, middle and high school groups. All teachers who reserve a tour at least two weeks in advance will receive a curriculum packet that includes a disk of images from the exhibition for use in the classroom. For SCMA Highlights and Family programs please visit the web. The Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars for Teachers The Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars for Teachers are designed to strengthen participants' commitment to high quality history teaching. These weeklong meetings provide intellectual stimulation and a collaborative context for developing practical resources and strategies to take back to the classroom. There are 20 summer institutes going on in the summer of 2004. Below is a listing of area institutes. Please visit the website for more listings. Application deadline March 26, 2004 June 27-July 3 "The Civil War in Global Context" New York University Thomas Bender July 11-17 "Passages to Freedom" Yale University David Blight and James Horton July 11-17 "Freedom" (for 5th - 8th grade teachers only) New York University Catherine Clinton and Carol Berkin July 25-31 "The Era of George Washington" Brown University Gordon Wood Western Mass Writing Project Conference Writing and Response Groups: Saturday mornings, 9-1pm. December 6, 2003. 2004 sessions: January 17, February 7, and April 3. Location: UMass, Bartlett Hall, Room 256 Open to all K-12 teachers in western Massachusetts, these gatherings provide a supportive and creative atmosphere in which all levels of writers can write and revise with the help and advice of others. Led by Diana F. Callahan, Co-Director-emeritus of WMWP. Free of charge. Teachers as Writers Saturday Workshop Saturday, March 6,
2004. 9-3:00. Teachers as Writers Retreat Thursday-Saturday, May 6-8,
2004. WMWP Summer 2004 Workshops Advanced Institute: Making Technology Work in the Classroom Teachers as Writers 7 Advanced Institute: Professional Writing A Week of Writing and Response August 2-6, 9-noon. Location: Tobin Hall, UMass-Amherst Led by Mary-Ann Palmieri, this one-week program of writing and response offers teachers an opportunity to work on their writing in a stress-free environment. Free of charge. Annenburg/CPB Channel FREE Professional Development Opportunities List of Workshops and Courses Find out more about the workshops and courses below: when they are broadcast on the Annenberg/CPB Channel and how to purchase them on videocassette. Subscribe to or unsubscribe from a workshop's or course's Channel-Talk email list, or, go directly to each workshop's or course's Web site, which provides information, support materials, activities, and a forum for communicating with other participants nationwide. View the current Professional Development Broadcast Schedule Mathematics Oct 28-Dec 23 The Missing Link Nov 4-Dec 16 Private Universe Project in Mathematics Science Nov 2-Dec 21Learning Science Through Inquiry Sept 17-Nov 12 Reactions in Chemistry Sept 17- Nov 12 Science in Focus: Energy Sept 17- Nov 12 Science in Focus: Force and Motion History and Social Studies Nov 2-Dec 21The Economics Classroom: A Workshop for Grade 9-12 Teachers Sept 25- Nov 20 Making Civics Real: A Workshop for Teachers Literature and Language Arts Nov 2-Dec 21 Conversations in Literature Sept 29-Nov 24 The Expanding Canon: Teaching Multicultural Literature in High School Sept 22-Nov 24 Making Meaning in Literature: A Workshop for Teachers, Grades 6-8 The Daily Hampshire Gazette's Newspaper in Education (NIE) 413-585-5289 email John Strickland The program provides local educators with flexible, effective teaching resources that makes the connection between classroom curriculum and the real world. NIE is a proven, cost effective program that can be used at all grade levels from kindergarten through high school. Our curriculum materials, provided free of charge to participating teachers, meet the goals of the MA Teaching Frameworks. The Gazette is a registered PDP provider. Up coming workshops include: |
