Professional Development

InCollaboration, Inc. / a/k/a the Readers Theatre Workshop

"New York's Authority and Your Number One Source for Arts and Technology in the Classroom"™

RTW presents Oriki Omi Oddara
Award Winning & Exciting
Afro-Cuban Dance Company
at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Theatre w 46th St New York City
March, 2007

Senator Hillary Clinton
greets RTW Artistic Associates
Rick Montalvo, left, and
Hank Wagner, right, at reception
in New York City

Students at PS752Q
Join in an Indian Pow Wow
and Dance to the Beat
of Native American
Drums & Chants

Professional Development Services:

Workshops

Single 45-minute or back-to-back 90-minute Staff Development Workshops - generally scheduled on teacher Staff Development Days and designed to provide teachers and paraprofessionals with tried and tested ways to use the arts in their classroom. The workshops are intense, “hands on” style, where teachers, in workshops of six to twelve individuals, actively participate and have an opportunity to work alongside other teachers in learning the specific topic discussed.

prodev-hugs_small.gif (13470 bytes) The workshops include overview, instruction, examples, a question and answer period, and conclude with the distribution of supplemental materials that offer opportunities for review as well as information on related resources and sources of information on which the teacher can draw. The 90-minute workshops are designed to give a specific example in a specific art form and to illustrate a specific topic.

Examples of some workshop topics:

	An Introduction to Story Theatre How to use Children’s Books to Create Short Plays;
	Theatre Games for the Classroom or - How to Introduce Acting into the Standard Curriculum without creating Classroom Chaos:
	Putting the Art Back in Arts Education Making Everyday Use of the Learning Standards for Integrating the Arts into Your Classes.

The list of Workshop Topics is always growing and changes with the changing needs of pedagogy and technology. Please ask your Company Associate if a specific topic is or can be made available. If the current interest is sufficient, the Workshop may be added to the schedule.

Modularity of Workshops - As all of our workshops are modular in nature, they can be combined in a day-long program with appropriate rest, refreshment and luncheon breaks, as planned.

Long-term Professional Development Courses

This format allows teachers to become not only familiar with a specific art form, but also to create appropriate lesson plans, examine the Learning Standards, evaluate student work, and create viable methods for assessment.

Course material may be presented wholly on-site or, if properly prodev-family_small.jpg (2924 bytes) planned and budgeted, can include instruction at INC’s state of the art facility at Kaufman Astoria Studios, or at a gallery, museum or other materially relevant tie-in site.

Courses involve groups of teachers working over a twelve-week period while their students progress in the desired art form.

During the course of study, teachers participate in the art form, create lesson plans, examine their work, and evaluate the art, their students’ work, and their school’s arts program.

Examples of Professional Development courses

	Art, History, and Architecture – Using the Digital Camera to Advance Student Literacy and Technology Skills
	Creative Writing - A Comprehensive Approach to Building Student Literacy Skills
	Using Story Theatre to Promote Student Communication Skills and Cultural Awareness
	Dance Theatre - Communicating a Story through Motion, Dance and Movement
	Technology in the Classroom - Making Use of the Computer to Create an Integrated Arts Program
	Learning Standards - Making Full Use of State Learning Standards in the Arts Education Curriculum

All program services provided to schools are developed in full consultation with teachers and administrators, and are based upon a thorough and professional evaluation of their needs and suggestions.

InCollaboration Inc. programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.
We also acknowledge the continuing and invaluable support provided by
The New York City Council, Council Members Eric Gioia and Peter Vallone, Speaker Christine Quinn, the entire Queens Delegation and Queens Borough President Helen Marshall; The Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the New York State Music Fund, Con Edison, JPMorganChase, the Carnegie Corporation and the Morgan Stanley Group of Companies.

Long-term Professional Development Courses

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