The Teacher Training Workshop is an 6-day intensive embedded in the Festival’s Professional Training Program that offers practicing dance educators a chance to refresh and renew their passion for teaching. Dance educators will gain valuable new insights and information to enhance their classroom and creative work and fortify their core teaching values.
To qualify applicants must be currently teaching dance for grades 8-12 or within higher education. Applicants may be enrolled in and undergraduate, M.Ed. or MFA program and intending to teach. Please include this information on your required resume.
The Teacher’s Training Workshop includes:
Teacher’s Laboratory In the daily afternoon 3-hour sessions with master teacher Mary Carbonara, participants will explore different learning modalities, appropriate age and grade-level lesson planning, student assessment, injury prevention and somatic approaches to conditioning, composition, collaboration, improvisation, and performance skills, and building community through movement practice.
Panel with Guest Faculty
Special Music for Dance Teachers Module Participants will work with Carbonara and master musician and accompanist, Terrence Karn focusing on how teachers can incorporate live music into their classes and performances.
A Choice of Elective Classes to Attend or Observe Daily Teacher’s Workshop participants may elect to register for specific morning classes to create their own movement experience for the week, or may choose to observe any morning classes on a day by day basis.
Special Teacher socials and round table dinner gatherings, master classes with BDF faculty designed especially for workshop participants, as well as guest visits from among the Professional Training Program faculty who will share aspects of their teaching practice specifically teachers during our afternoon laboratory.
Delicious Shared Meals and On Site Housing with Workshop Attendees
Application opens December 3, 2018.
To Apply
Applicants must submit the required Teacher Training Workshop application along with all required support materials (resume and video). We’ll begin accepting applications December 3, 2018. If you have questions regarding the process, please contact Allie at dancefest@bates.edu
Teacher Scholarship
We are excited to announce that two $500 tuition scholarships will be awarded for those enrolled in the Teacher Training Workshop. Participants interested in this scholarship opportunity must submit the scholarship application form and required materials (financial documentation and recommendation form) which must be received by Monday, April 1, 2019 by 11:59pm EST.
http://www.batesdancefestival.org/education/teacher-workshops/