Living Sky School Division

School Workshops

This page will be updated regularly to highlight Arts Education workshops and PD presented in our schools.  Schools may request topics as shown here, or introduce new ideas to suit your needs.  Call Sherron Burns at the division office (937-7914) to make your request or to brainstorm ideas.

Creative Drama

Elementary Process Based:

• exercises and games to set the environment - trust, cooperation, listening, responding
• talking about drama, how we feel in the drama, expectations and agreements
• finding the focus through theme or story
• representing our ideas through symbol
• drama strategies to explore the ideas (mime, tableau, role, parallel play, dance, maps, meetings, interviews)
• writing in role or journaling

• Click here to download a grade 2 Role Drama Explorers From an Alien Land.doc

  or for a Grade 5 Role Drama National Theatre grade 5.doc

   

Middle Years & High School Drama

• thematic exploration
• using mask and movement
• strategies: improvisation, role, tableau, mime, dance, interviews, meetings
• framing scenework
• monologue and dialogues
• influence of theatre, history, style, genre
• writing in role and journal

Brain Dance

Connaught School

Teachers and EA's

Facilitated by Sherron Burns and Pam Hannah (school counsellor)

• philosophy of Brain Dance, benefits
• research on the brain and benefits of movement and dance
• introduction to types of movement and ideas for the classroom
• Follow up lessons taught to Kindergarten to grade 3 students

Arts Education: 4 Strands