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Concepts and Developmental Activities in the Arts for Children

If you are passionate about working with children as students or as audience members, then this is the class for you. The skills that you will learn in this course will allow you to expand your teaching and performance toolbox while engaging your target audience in creative arts-centered activities. Topics to be covered include: integrating the arts into education, activating the humanities through the arts, assessing arts learning, creating a safe environment for all types of learners, and using drama as a classroom management tool.

Practices in Developing Arts and Creativity for Children

In Winter quarter, you will have opportunities to take your creative ideas and shape them into programs that work. Students will research and evaluate existing programs in their field, then work individually or in groups to create lesson plans, designs, curricula, and materials of their own. Course topics include: storytelling (aural, visual, and dramatic), for and with children; learning and developing group child-centered creative activities; discipline-specific training for older youth and young adults; studio and rehearsal processes; adaptations; integrated and multi-disciplinary arts; and applied learning using the arts. Whether you want to adapt a favorite story into a script for your class to perform, design an interactive exhibit for a museum, or write a score for a children's musical, you will come out of Winter quarter with a variety of tools to reach your goals.

Targeting the Children's and Youth Audiences Markets

You've been through the training, and now it is time for you to move from theory to practice. This class will give the skills that you need to market yourself as an arts specialist. Taught by the Education Director of the Seattle Children's Theatre, this class will enable you to teach the arts in our community. Topics to be covered include: gathering information about job and internship opportunities, developing ways to market your talent, and learning how to manage arts-based programming for children. You will refine your arts-centered curriculum writing skills and practice how to present your work to others, creating your capstone professional teaching artist portfolio.