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Arts In Education Week – A Resource for Educators

September 16, 2015

Alliance Theatre

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The Alliance Theatre is committed to serving as a resource for all educators for professional learning – through participation in the Woodruff Arts Center Educator Conference as well as engaging pre-service teachers at Georgia State University through quality arts and arts integration instruction.
 
The Woodruff Arts Center Educator Conference provides arts integration-focused professional learning for all educators regardless of content area or grade level. The spirit of the Conference is collaboration as we work with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and High Museum of Art to provide quality professional learning. The expectation is that educators will leave the event envisioning not only how they can use what they learned in their classroom, but how the certified arts educators in their schools can serve as resources and vice-versa. 
 
The Alliance Theatre has a valuable partnership with Georgia State University’s College of Education through which the Alliance Arts for Learning Institute provides quality arts instruction and training in drama strategies to pre-service teachers in both the Early Childhood and Elementary Education and Middle and Secondary Education departments. These pre-service teachers receive instruction on how to integrate drama in their classrooms through practical application. 
 
Recently, Alliance Theatre’s Family Programs Manager, Olivia Aston Bosworth, teamed up with Dr. Laura Meyers of GSU to present a webinar on Arts Integration through the Story Basket Strategy through Georgia Public Library Service. Over 61 libraries across the county tuned in to learn how to use this drama strategy to enliven their story time events for young readers. 
 
Rachel Jones, Alliance Theatre’s Education Administrative Manager and Teaching Artist works with the Middle and Secondary Education pre-service teachers and says, “More than once the teachers have told me that they use the lesson I taught the next day in their high school class with positive results.  They are eager to use the benefits of theatre in their classroom.”