All of Kate’s teacher workshops are “hands-on, bodies-on.” Participants are encouraged to dress for movement. Kate makes everyone feel safe and secure about trying new ideas. Handouts and resources are always provided. Custom workshops and extended in-services are also available in collaboration with the needs of the site.
Teacher Workshops require the use of a large, open space, chairs for participants, and one to two display tables. In Illinois, partial funding is available through the Illinois Arts Council’s Arts Resource grant program. For further information please visit this web site. www.state.il.us/agency/iac
BRAIN BOP! Improve Student Learning and Behavior through Movement From birth to twelve months, we acquire a huge number of connections in the brain. If any of the crucial connections are missed, due to lack of “tummy time” or other circumstances, they are pruned away through disuse. Fortunately, the brain is flexible, and teachable. BRAIN BOP teaches development movement patterns that help reorder connections, leading to a healthy brain and improved concentration, social skills, math and reading aptitude.
Based on "The BrainDance" (developed by Anne Green Gilbert), it only takes 5 - 10 minutes, it’s fun and easy, you don’t need any supplies except floor space and music, and you can adapt or change the method of presentation to suit your needs and the developmental level of your students. Kate will model Brain Bop activities and provide handouts so that you can take what you learn back to your classroom and use it the next day. Companion CD: Brain Bop: Warm Ups for Muscles and Minds
Appropriate For: Special Education Teachers, Music, Art
and Physical Education Teachers, Reading Specialists, Occupational and Physical
Therapists
Materials Cost: $16 Companion CD
Program length: 1 - 5 hours
Also Available: Brain Bop for Early Childhood Preschool through Kindergarten (taught through nursery rhymes, rhythms and songs).
Other Workshop Offerings!
The Write to Dance: In this “hands-on, bodies-on” workshop, discover how the writing skills of organization, focus, elaboration and integration can be brought to life through creative dance, folk dance and choreography. After learning parallel dance and writing concepts, we’ll apply our knowledge to crafting a “rough draft” of a dance. Finally, we’ll examine journal questions as authentic writing prompts. Dress to move!
Appropriate For: 3rd through 6th grade teachers and support staff.
Materials Cost: Companion CD $5
Program length: 3 hours
It's About Time: Learn to teach dance concepts related to time: speed, pulse, and pattern. Kate models 3 complete lesson plans for PreK/K, 1st - 8th, and a multicultural lesson on West African rhythm and movement for intermediate elementary through high school. Detailed suggestions on space, time and behavior management are included.
Appropriate For: PreK through 12th grade teachers and Teaching Artists
Materials Cost: Companion CD $5
Program length: 3 hours
AlphaBeat: Creative Dance Activities for Young Children Learn how to lead activities from Kate’s compact disc AlphaBeat including circle dances, warm ups, and activities that model creative dance basics: expression, movement in place and traveling, and shape making. Then, learn how to make simple dances with your students based on poems and extension activities using your own music resources.
Appropriate For: Preschool–Grade 2 Teachers
Materials cost: $16 per person/site
Program length: 1–2 hours
Step On the Beat: Getting Started with Dance in the Classroom
Learn how to lead ice breakers, warm ups and other activities from Kate’s
compact disc Step On the Beat including a clap along song,
movement and rhyme activities that introduce and reinforce the importance
of contrast in the arts, two warm-up activities and a shape making activity.
Then learn extension activities that work with the instrumental only tracks
on the compact disc.
Appropriate For: Kindergarten–Grade 8 Teachers (Art,
Music, Physical Education, and general classroom instruction)
Materials cost: $16 per person/site
Program length: 1–2 hours
The World In Our Feet: Making Cultural Connections through Dance
Learn dances that parallel your foreign language program (from French, German,
and Spanish speaking cultures) and are terrific for stretch breaks, as social
skill builders, to improve concentration and coordination, and for performance.
Music for the dances provided.
Appropriate For: Grade 3–Grade 12 Teachers (Art, Music,
Physical Education, Foreign Languages and general classroom instruction)
Materials cost; $10 per person/site
Program length: 1–2 hours
Dancetalk: Creative Dance and Language Development
This dynamic workshop explores the connection between creative movement and
young children’s language development. Join Kate Kuper, award-winning
educator and choreographer from Illinois, to examine how creative movement
can help increase students’ vocabulary and their use of verbs and adverbs
to express movements; develop their abilities to find rhythm and rhyme in
words; and build their comprehension skills. Workshop activities also develop
social and life skills, such as focus, concentration, imagination, and cooperation.
Discover for yourself how hands-on, bodies-on learning makes for a dynamic,
energized and joyful environment where children express themselves cooperatively,
creatively, and physically! Kuper’s compact disc, AlphaBeat,
is yours to take back to the classroom.
Appropriate For: Preschool–Kindergarten Teachers
Program Length: 3 hours
Materials Cost: $16 per person
This Teacher Workshop is also offered through the Kennedy Center’s
Partner’s in Education program.
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