Workshops

Welcome to the 2007-08 season of Professional Development Workshops. The Capitol Center for the Arts and the Concord School District have developed a series of workshops that address the training needs in our community and state. We invite educators, parents and patrons to take advantage of these extraordinary opportunities to learn from the most highly qualified teaching artists in the nation. Workshop participants will leave the sessions with ideas and strategies that can be implemented in the classroom, home, or work place the very next day. Sign up today!

If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact Shawn Powers, Capitol Center Education Director, (603) 225-1111 ext. 108. To reserve a spot at any of the Professional Development Workshops, please download the pdf Workshop Registration Form and mail or fax it in.

Professional Development Workshops for Teachers

WORD PAINTING: MASTERING READING FLUENCY AND ORAL EXPRESSION THROUGH MUSIC
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 4 to 7 p.m.
How can teachers guide students’ oral reading—changing it from a plodding monotone to a fluid, expressive voice? By integrating music into the teaching of language arts! This participatory workshop for educators explores the connections between elements of music and elements of language. Participants learn strategies for using music to increase students’ interest in the rhythmic patterns of word relationships, teach metric poetry, develop students’ listening skills, build interpretation and oral presentation skills, and improve reading fluency. A must for teachers of English language learners! Facilitator: Marcia Daft of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. Recommended for teachers of Grades K-6.

Marcia Daft is known for creating original instructional methods for teaching music as well as integrating music and movement into other areas of the curriculum. Her work has been used in classrooms throughout the United States for fifteen years. Ms. Daft is a national workshop leader for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a Master Artist with the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, and a consultant for arts institutions throughout the U.S. She has developed museum exhibitions, broadcast programs, and educational programs for the Smithsonian Institution. She has also written over twenty children's educational books for both the Smithsonian Institution and the National Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Daft holds a Bachelors Degree in engineering from Duke University, a Masters Degree in music from the University of Chicago, and studied piano performance at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She holds both a Certificate and License in Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and performs as part of the duo-piano team Le Quattro Mani.

Integrated Arts at the Capitol Center

The Education Department at the Capitol Center for the Arts is pleased to continue its partnership with the Integrated Arts M.Ed. program at Plymouth State University, by offering the graduate course, "Integrated Arts at the Capitol Center." Teachers can earn graduate credit for participation in the Center’s Professional Development Workshops in addition to the creation and implementation of a learning unit based on the techniques presented in the workshops. For more information, please contact Shawn Powers, Director of Education at the Capitol Center, telephone 603-225-1111, x.108.

For more information regarding Plymouth State’s M.Ed. Integrated Arts option or the new Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Arts Leadership and Learning, please contact Dr. Trish Lindberg, telephone 603-535-2647.

Student Workshops

To sign up for student workshops, please download the pdf School Series Registration Form and mail or fax it in.

School Series Strategies for Students in the Classroom Dates and Times TBA
Capitol Center Education staff has developed highly interactive, integrated activities that will introduce students to the relevant topics before seeing selected School Series performances, or aid students in analyzing themes after the theatre experience. All activities link to NH curriculum frameworks and provide students with a deepened understanding of the performance, literature and reading connections, and the world around them. Pre- and post-performance sessions for “A Year with Frog and Toad” (November 2, 2007), “Harry the Dirty Dog” (February 19, 2008) and “The Mystery of King Tut” (March 3, 2008) are available for your classroom either before or after your group’s attendance at the performances (or both!). Sessions are 45 to 60 minutes in length and can be scheduled one to two weeks before or after each show date.

Note: The Capitol Center will contact you to schedule the sessions. For Grades K-7; $40 per classroom.

Mayhem Poets Slam in the Schools
Tuesday, April 29, 2008, Times to be scheduled
Performers/poets from Mayhem Poets will visit classrooms to present the history of Slam and performance poetry, and to promote writing as a positive means of creative expression. Their 60-minute workshops will be interspersed by performances of their original work. Note: The Capitol Center will contact classrooms to schedule workshop times during the school day.

Note: The Capitol Center will contact you to schedule the sessions. For Grades 7-12; $40 per classroom.