| INTERACTIVE LEARNING Applied Theatre for Schools |
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| Students and teachers learn by doing! The Center for Applied Theatre offers customized workshops designed to explore issues of particular concern to students, teachers, administrators, or mixed groups at K-12 and post-secondary levels. Workshops use interactive theatre exercises that encourage open examination of topics chosen for or by the participants and provide a rehearsal for change. Applied Theatre techniques provide an effective approach to issues such as violence, self-esteem, peer pressure, drug and alcohol abuse, at-risk behaviors, organizational difficulties, student/teacher relationships, teaching and learning style challenges, race, sex, and power relationships. They have been used by students and educators all over the world as tools for uncovering and solving problems because they help remove barriers to change, foster creativity, and provide a place to test solutions in action. |
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| Workshops include activities designed to maximize participant engagement and to provide tools for discovery. Such activities include: • Perception exercises in which participants examine habits of thinking and acting, and learn to activate their powers of observation • Listening exercises which encourage people to release their own voices and hear each others stories. • Habit-breaking exercises through which participants develop new responses and modes of communication • Communication exercises which encourage participants to define, learn about, and model perceptions of and solutions to problems. • Interactive simulations through which participants enter scenes based on their own concerns and practice solutions for real life implementation. The Center for Applied Theatre can also provide you with performances of existing scripts for groups of varying sizes. |
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