Workshop with Education majors from Lake Forest College. Focus on integrating arts into the social sciences.

1. Presented by: Annie Sisson Rezac Director of Education Metropolis Performing Arts Centre Lake Forest College The Arts In The Learning Process October 26, 2009

2. Theatre Arts is for Everyone Students of all ages and interests benefit from being expressive and creative. Brings students together to share a common language through the creative arts.

4. Learning Modes and Intelligences

5. Bodily Kinesthetic Intelligence

6. Spatial Intelligence

7. Ensemble and Socialization

8. Self – Assessment and Emotional Literacy

9. New Vocabulary

10. New Lens for Interpretation

12. Essential Senses Cont. Empathy Going beyond logic and engaging emotion and intuition Play Bringing humor and light- heartedness to product/service Meaning The purpose is the journey, give meaning to life from inside yourself. -A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink

14. Collaboration

15. Compassion

16. Complex understanding of emotions

17. Empathy

18. Humility

19. Taking Risks

21. Administration

22. Students

24. Aesthetic Understanding (Greene) Articulate what is noticed about a piece of theatre or a theatre exercise Teachers Students “Enlightened Eye” – Elliot Eisner Seeing Hearing Smelling Feeling

25. Theatre ExplorationElements

26. Theatre (Active)ExplorationForms

28. Grades 6-8

29. Integrated into Language Arts Class

31. Resources Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development Arts Education Partnership Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning AEP and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities Variations on a Blue Guitar Maxine Greene Illinois Theatre Association ITA American Alliance of Theatre Education AATE