Gather your colleagues and join us for our 4th annual Summer Drama Institute.

August 9-11, 2010

at Columbia College in downtown Chicago

Weave drama into your literacy instruction, build foundational drama skills, learn directing strategies, and play!

Download a flyer and registration form.

Reserve your place now. Select the sessions for which you would like to register.	Purchase the books recommended for your session. Orders placed on this page will not be charged shipping. Books will be distributed at the institute.
Sessions GSWDI: The Basics $150.00 Setting the Stage $150.00 Dramatizing Reading $150.00 Dramatic Writing $150.00 All three sessions $350.00	Book Options I already own the books $0.00 Book set for GSWDI $95.00

August 9, 9am to 4pm

Getting Started with Drama Integration: The Basics

(Appropriate for teachers and teaching artists of grades 1-8)

Challenge student thinking, improve collaboration, and tap into students’ curiosity about content. Wonder how to get started? This session presents teaching and management techniques for introducing and using drama effectively.

• Discover how drama connects across your curriculum.
• Learn basic tools and skills of drama.
• Experience how drama teaches teamwork and collaboration.
• Acquire activities for teaching imagination, concentration, movement, and enacted story.
• Learn to begin designing drama lessons.

Setting the Stage: Directing the Student Production

(Appropriate for teachers of grades 3-8)

Upstage, downstage, face front. This workshop introduces you to directing from a script and, more importantly, how to build a student created production through improvisation. Start off on the right foot developing performance work for grades 3-8.

• Learn effective blocking techniques for staging your productions.
• Review setting rehearsal agendas.
• Discuss ways to manage time and run efficient rehearsals with young people.
• Explore the I.F. (Improvisational Framework) process as one way to build a student production – no script needed.

August 10, 9am to 4pm

Dramatizing Reading Comprehension

(Appropriate for teachers and teaching artists of grades 1-8. Completion of Getting Started with Drama Integration is recommended.)

Activate, enliven, and apply comprehension strategies through drama. Drama is an effective tool for any stage of the reading process (before, during, after). This session presents a variety of techniques for integrating drama with teaching reading. Learn strategies for:

• Bringing vocabulary to life.
• Making inferences.
• Building schema through text connections.
• Questioning

Uncover the countless ways drama integrates with your reading curriculum.

August 11, 9am to 4pm

A Dramatic Approach to Writing

(Appropriate for teachers and teaching artists of grades 1-8. Completion of Getting Started with Drama Integration is recommended.)

Connecting writing and drama sharpens narrative, descriptive, and persuasive writing and facilitates discovery of author voice. This session presents how to meaningfully integrate drama and writing.

• Explore big ideas that connect drama and writing.
• Acquire activities that teach adding details and tone color.
• Gather new ideas for improving author voice and word choice.

Take your students’ writing to the next level!