Powerful Teacher Learning: What the Theatre Arts Teach about Collaboration

ISBN-13: 9781610486811 Publisher: R&L Education Publication date: 07/29/2013 Pages: 174 Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d) This book offers an innovative approach to understanding and supporting teacher inquiry groups, Critical Friends Groups, “PLCs,” and other vehicles for the school-wide professional learning community. It takes the reader outside traditional sites of professional development for teachers and into the black box theatres and rehearsal studios of contemporary theatre companies. It investigates the methods and specific tools these theatre artists use to collectively create new works for performance. Drawing on these methods and tools, it provides a model for understanding and improving the practices of teacher learning groups, one that highlights the means, materials, and modes of engagement of a group’s activity. Applying the model to elementary and high school teacher learning groups, it demonstrates how teachers, coaches, and administrators can use