Professional Development

Alley Theatre's ECE Staff can provide professional development and inservice training for teachers of various subjects and at all grade levels.  Since theatre is an interactive community of artists and audiences, participating in it as a maker or observer teaches collaboration and teamwork.  We can help you teach ensemble.  We can help you teach that playwriting is the process of developing active language to explore character and conflict.  We can help you teach that acting is action and reaction.  We can help you teach that the elements of design and production support the play’s action and characters.  At the Alley Theatre, we relate to language, ideas, expression, and society the way a zoo associates with biology, ecology, and nature.  We are a practical resource for teaching English, writing, literature, the humanities, social studies and the fine arts.

Professional Develop Workshops or Inservice Teacher Training can take place at the Alley Theatre or at your campus.  Workshops and Training can be as short as an hour or as long as a full day.  Pricing depends upon workshop length and the details of the project, but a typical one-hour workshop is $100.

Here are some of the workshops we could bring to you to then share with your classroom.  Select one of these or we can use them as a starting point for a whole new collaboration:

• American Theatre Classics (for high school teachers)
• Teaching Shakespeare (for middle and high school teachers)
• Teaching Playwriting (for middle and high school teachers)
• Story Dramatization Techniques (for elementary and middle school teachers)
• Teaching Improvisation (for all grade levels)
• Movement for the Stage (for all grade levels)
• The Art of Integrating Theatre (for all grade levels)
• Ensemble and Trust-building Techniques (for all grade levels)

For more information on professional development for teachers or to develop an original training experience for your campus or district, contact Joe Angel Babb  joeb@alleytheatre.org, Director of Education and Community Engagement, at 713-315-3385.