CPD for Teachers: Building a Hive! 23 Jan 2016
Drama in Education facilitators Sarah FitzGibbon and Heidi Schoenenberger will assist you in designing imagined, creative communities through which you and your class can explore the value and importance of interdependence and collective problem solving.
You will be introduced to Process Drama techniques that will enable you to create an immersive environment for your class. As the children begin to carry out and understand their own roles within the group, they will gain insight into individual and collective responsibilities for the wellbeing of the community and the wider environment.
By the end of the session, you will have suggested starting points; methods for building investment and role playing activities to encourage problem solving. The CPD will include lesson plans that will link to Science, Drama, SPHE and English and will explore concepts of responsible citizenship and earth stewardship.
This CPD will complement a visit to see BEES! but will also work as a standalone session.
About the Facilitators
Sarah FitzGibbon is the Educational Consultant to The Abbey Theatre and designs most of their recent education programmes including The Priming the Canon Series and Theatre Making and Citizenship. Since the early 2000’s, she co-produced two books to assist Irish teachers to deliver the Drama Curriculum with her collaborator Joanna Parks. She is regularly lectures various third level institutions including St. Patrick’s Teacher Training College, as well as being an active member of the youth drama movement and Theatre for Young Audiences Ireland. Sarah is always mindful of supporting the teacher in the use of drama in the classroom and the challenges they face in the modern classroom.
Heidi Schoenenberger developed the teacher’s resources for Bees. She recently completed her Master’s at Trinity College in Drama in Education focusing on the impact of live performance in the primary school classroom. She has worked on the teacher resources for Abbey Theatre’s production of Me, Michael by Tara McKevitt and has worked with international children’s theatre festivals in Ireland, Scotland, and Austria. In the United States she worked in the Education Departments of two professional theatres and teaches drama to students ages 5 and up. Her passion is connecting young people and their teachers to the arts through watching, participating, and creating.