This registration is only for IU 1 Aides who need Extra Contracted Days. The following is the course description.
The course is for IU 1 Aides needing Extra Contracted Days and all K-12 educators including teachers, nurses, substitutes and counselors and meets the following professional development criteria: Teaching skills and reading.
The first session will be held at Little Lake Theater in Canonsburg, PA and includes a performance of the current outreach program from Little Lake, My Lunch Table.
For the first session only, participants will have a box lunch. <>Participants in the course will review pre performance materials, experience the performance, and design connections to their classrooms based on the performance and the materials. Other components of the course include aligning the performance and materials with the PA Academic Standards.
Sunny Disney Fitchett, the Artistic Director for Little Lake Theatre Company, will lead participants in the development of a character study.
The second day of class will be held at Intermediate Unit 1. During the second class participants will share their character studies, brainstorm new outreach program topics, explore additional ways to integrate the arts with academics and raise student achievement, and identify and develop classroom lessons integrating the arts.
Participants will complete pre and post tests, develop a character study, develop an action plan for implementation of the arts into their classrooms, and design a lesson aligned with the PA standards that integrates the arts.
