Resources for Students & Teachers
TheatreSquared's program for students and teachers, T2 for Education, offers in-school residencies and worksohps, a deeply discounted student performance series as well as professional development opportunities and teaching materials for educators.
Word/Play
In 2010, funded by a two-year, $25,000 seed grant from Fayetteville Community Foundation’s Happy Hollow Fund, T2 inaugurated a partnership with Fayetteville High School’s literacy intervention program for sophomores. T2 staff, FHS educators and Dr. David Jolliffe, Brown Chair of English Literacy at the University of Arkansas, designed a semester-long playwriting curriculum called “Word/Play” to help excite students about writing and reading aloud. Word/Play creates a new arts access opportunity for an underserved youth audience. T2 teaching artists led six in-school workshops scheduled throughout the semester, and professional actors visited the school to perform an original 45-minute work designed to be informative, fun and engaging. Students then visited the theatre to watch a professional performance, part of TheatreSquared’s main stage season, and took part in a post-show discussion with the cast. As the final component of the project, students worked collaboratively in class to write and rehearse their own ten-minute plays, and returned to the theatre to perform them for an audience of family and peers.
TheatreSquared plans to expand the Word/Play program to additional high schools in the 2011/12 school year. If you are interested involving your class or school, please use the contact form.
Student Performances, Workshops & Teaching Materials
Through charitable sponsorships and individual support, TheatreSquared is able to offer groups of junior high and high school students deeply subsidized single ticket prices — discounted up to 75% from single ticket prices. Student group prices apply to the following performances:
Thursdays, 7:30pm; Saturdays, 2:00pm; Sundays, 2:00pm
Special weekday matinee performances for field trips may also be scheduled upon request for groups of 75 students or more.
With each production, TheatreSquared offers free teacher workshops and complimenary teaching materials to extend the experience beyond the theatre and into the classroom. Teachers will receive lesson plans and classroom handouts.
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Professional Development Opportunities
TheatreSquared offers free professional development workshops throughout the year led by artists and experts versed in the Arkansas Curricular Frameworks. Workshops focus on creative literacy techniques, core theatre skills, and collaborating across curricula.
Each summer, the Theatre offers the week-long T2 Professional Development Institute, conferring up to 30 hours of Arkansas professional development units in partnership with the University of Arkansas. This program will be offered June 10-13, 2011. Four subsequent workshops scheduled throughout the school year will build on the week-long institute to further enhance creative learning techniques.
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(includes application form)
In-School Workshops for Students
TheatreSquared offers free in-school student workshops led by professional artists on topics ranging from reading text through theatre, Shakespeare: Page to Stage, building confidence thorugh comedy improvisation, and a variety of additional subjects integrating theatre techniques with life skills and classroom study.
Want to get involved?
CONTACT: Morgan Hicks, Director of Education and Program Development
(479) 595-8590 — morgan@theatresquared.org
theatre2.org/education
