Globe Education ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS - Mondavi Center

Spring-Fall 2013Globe EducationAcademy for TeachersThe Los Rios Community College District; the School Of Education, UC Davis;the Mondavi Center, UC Davis; and Shakespeare’s Globe in London are partnersin a professional development initiative that provides in-depth learning opportunitiesfor selected drama and English teachers of grades 7–12 and community colleges in theSacramento region: The Globe Education Academy for Teachers.Participants in this collaborative project are immersed in the world of Shakespeare bothat UC Davis and in London. They will have the opportunity to take classes from Shakespeare’sGlobe theatre practitioners, and from faculty at UC Davis. The Academy will travel toShakespeare’s Globe in London for two weeks in June 2013 to work with Globe Educationpractitioners, and will celebrate their extraordinary experience with a festival day of theatreon stage at the Mondavi Center in the fall of 2013.“It is our unanimousassessment that nothingin our undergraduate,graduate or credentialprograms comes closeto providing the toolsand literacy techniqueslearned through theGlobe Academy.”—The 2010 Academy Teachers“It was far beyonDexpectations and trulytransformative. It was anamazing experience andthe program holds somevery interesting ideasfor school reform...I donot want this work toend with the novemberfestival.”—Scott Embrey-StineG. W. Carver School of Artsand Science, Sacramento CityUnified School DistrictParticiPAnts will have training in the following:• Collaborative Team-Building for the Classroom: Experience creatively instructedclassroom activities designed to provide a sense of ensemble and enable students whohave never been on stage to participate confidently in performance work.• Myths and Realities of Shakespeare’s Stage: Learn about the life and times of Shakespeareat the Globe and how the theatre building influenced plays and performance.• Lively Action: Draw on Globe Education’s active approaches to teaching Shakespeare’splays as scripts for performance rather than texts for desk-bound reading and celebratethe “soul of lively action.”• Essential Questions: Explore the fundamental questions that educators and scholars pose,and engage in discussions that illuminate the text for understanding and performance.• Creative Methods Inspire Teaching and Learning: Explore and develop practical ways toteach Shakespeare’s themes that will influence creative approaches to teaching across theschool curriculum.• Theatre Stuff without Stuffiness: Develop innovative techniques to teach Shakespeare’slanguage in the classroom, drawing on Globe Education’s respected program for studentsand teachers.• Comprehensive Resources: Receive resources and materials that will enhanceyour classroom curriculum.