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Book-It offers customized training for teachers and educators K-12. Our professional development program works with your school to help teachers use the Book-It Style™ to bring everyday curriculum to life.We offer workshops for 10-20 participants for three hour sessions or longer and provide clock hours-a perfect workshop for an in-service day!
For more information on customized training call 206.428-6319 or email education@book-it.org.
 
A collaboration between four area theatres, Bringing Theatre into the Classroom (BTiC) is a five-day intensive summer workshop that creates an engaging and fun learning community among teachers and teaching artists to integrate drama into all curriculum areas to make subjects come alive. The program founders and collaborators comprise Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company and Seattle Children's Theatre.
First-hand involvement allows time to test ideas and build them into workable, practical units. In addition to the hands-on activities, teachers have the opportunity to "try out" curriculum and receive feedback from our resident Teen Interns and walk away with an extensive resource notebook. Clock hours and university credit are also available.
This year's BTiC will take place July 11 - 15, 2011.
For more information call Scott Koh, Education Program Manager at Seattle Repertory Theatre at 206.443.2210 or check out the BTIC postcard.
The online application is available here.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS
Throughout the week, teachers choose workshops that are most suited for their classrooms and students. Through feedback from teachers, our curriculum has evolved, and the contents of workshops can easily be adapted for a range of grade levels from elementary to high school. In particular, we have increased our offerings for young students (pre-3rd grade) and middle school students. Following are some of the sample offerings: Book-It's workshops teach methods to make literature fun, physical and active for students. Teachers learn how to take literature from page to stage using the Book-It Style™, which encourages an active relationship with a book through voice, body, and imagination. "The Power of Listening," "Building Community through Storytelling," "Make Literature Personal," and "Prove your Point of View" are some of the units included. Sessions with Seattle Children's Theatre bring a story alive using the creative techniques that story drama provides. Teachers take a ride through popular folktales and children's literature to explore ways to create their own drama-based lesson plans. Story drama curriculum helps students expand their imaginations, improve listening and communication, and enhance problem solving and cooperative learning skills. Seattle Shakespeare Company's workshops, including "You be the Bard" and "Discovery Shakespeare," take plots from classical texts to allow students to use improvisation to write their own versions of the plays. Plot, character, given circumstances, intentions, and improvisation basics are explored with an emphasis on teaching Shakespeare actively through "on your feet" exploration of key scenes. These workshops include techniques to help students take ownership of the events that propel them through the action of the play. Workshops from Seattle Repertory Theatre offer teachers opportunities to learn a variety of acting exercises and playwriting activities. Each exercise is designed to integrate easily with teachers' existing curriculum. Teachers choose between entry level courses focusing on rudimentary drama skills or more sophisticated classroom techniques designed to facilitate the creation and performance of student-generated original theatre pieces.
 AND THAT'S NOT ALL!
In addition to great workshops and time to network with your colleagues, we also bring the learning community into your classroom. Each teacher will choose a Teaching Artist partner to design and implement curriculum with you and your students in the fall. Clock hours and university credit are available. And don't forget the good food-free lunches and continental breakfast-and lots of laughter.
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