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Before
Pencil Touches Paper:
Creativity-based
Strategies
to get K-6 Struggling
Students Ready to
Write
This three-session
workshop is offered by
Honolulu Theatre for
Youth with partial
funding from the Hawai‘i
State Foundation on
Culture and the Arts
through the National
Endowment for the Arts
and appropriations by
the State Legislature.
Professional development
for teachers is one of
the HSFCA Arts Education
Program's major
initiatives.
Dates:
Saturdays, January 26,
February 23, and March
30, 2013 from
Time: 9:00 a.m.-4:00
p.m.
Location:
Office of Curriculum
Instruction and Student
Services, 22nd Avenue,
Honolulu.
Instructors Paul Wood
and Daniel A. Kelin, II.
Registration fee: $150
Teachers will learn
creative approaches to
engage students in
developing ideas into
stories in advance of
putting pencil to paper.
Teachers will understand
how to guide students to
play with words and
images, to trust
imaginative impulses and
to visualize character
experiences in order to
verbally and
collaboratively shape
ideas into
individualized stories.
Teachers will develop
skills in engaging
students
kinesthetically,
emotionally, and
intellectually,
encouraging them to
personally invest in
story-making to increase
their understanding of
story structure and
creative expression. The
processes demonstrated
in this course are
especially geared
towards students who
struggle with basic
writing skills which
impede their ability to
express themselves.
Teachers can register
for the course on the
PDE3 website (https://pde3.k12.hi.us/).
For questions or more
information call the
Education Department at
Honolulu Theatre for
Youth at 839-9885,
ext. 704 or edadmin@htyweb.org.
Photo
above: Teachers
stretch their skills
in an earlier
professional
development workshop
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