Registration Cost: $85 | Includes Lunch | www.setc.org/teachers-institute
Check-in and hospitality begins at 8:30am.The SETC Teachers Institute is an all-day seminar designed for middle and high school teachers who use or integrate theatre techniques into their classroom, directors of theatre arts programs, teaching artists, and students studying to be theatre educators.
A DAY OF CREATIVE RENEWAL Embracing Your Creative Being: Suzan Zeder will start the day sharing insights about her own plays and writing processes. That discussion will give way to a general conversation about creativity, which will ultimately focus on the need for teachers to nourish their own creative selves.
Melding Body and Mind: The day-long session will move back and forth between talking, moving, drawing, visualizing, writing and more.
- Jim Hancock will draw upon movement disciplines such as The Form, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, Tai Chi, Qi Gong and Tensegrity.
- Suzan Zeder will follow up with writing activities of clustering, analog drawing, metaphor, paradox and structural story building.
- All activities will be participational in nature, but everyone should feel welcome to enter each experience at their own comfort level.
Transcending Subject Matter: The work is equally applicable to teachers of acting, movement, design, and — of course — writing. The exercises and activities truly transcend subject matter, as the real focus will be on the teacher as a creative being. “This will be an Institute FOR them, not merely for their students,” says Zeder.
