Gail N. Herman

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Storyteller - Organic Storytelling with Students and Teachers; Kinesthetic Arts: Movement and Mime in Learning @ Univ. of Connecticut
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Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Area, United States
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About Gail N. Herman

I am a professional storyteller and creative arts infusion educator. I perform in schools, libraries, and for organizations. I provide residencies for schools and libraries and teach at UConn's Summer G/T Confratute and for other colleges. My objectives are to infuse storytelling and the visual and movement arts into the curriculum so that advanced and underachieving students learn artful, creative strategies to show what they know and receive much needed challenge. I taught at Keene State College Lab School, Garrett College, Eastern Connecticut State University, WVU, Frostburg State, and Lesley University's National Graduate Program. Most recently I taught Creative Arts in Teaching & Learning at the College of New Rochelle, NY.

Gail N. Herman's Current Company Details
Univ. of Connecticut

Univ. Of Connecticut

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Storyteller - Organic Storytelling with Students and Teachers; Kinesthetic Arts: Movement and Mime in Learning
Gail N. Herman Work Experience Details
  • Organic Storytelling
    Storyteller And Educational Consultant
    Organic Storytelling 1979 - Present
    I am a professional storyteller and movement arts infusion educator. I perform in schools, libraries, and for organizations. I also teach at UConn's Confratute and other colleges. My objectives for teachers and students are as follows.1) to infuse storytelling and the movement arts into the curriculum so that students find more meaning in the standards 2) to provide writing, telling, and moving explorations to help advanced students find there is no ceiling on creativity, 3) finally, to assist struggling students with strategies useful for recalling important information.When working with adults in libraries and Senior Centers my objective is to entice listeners to become tellers and then writers of their own stories and memoirs.When performing for adults in organizational settings, I share folk, personal, and family stories, especially from my mother-in-law's orphanage (boarding school) experiences.
  • Aegus Association For The Education Of Gifted Underachieving Students
    Aegus Board Member
    Aegus Association For The Education Of Gifted Underachieving Students 1998 - Present
    I am interested in helping teachers and parents engage twice exceptional and gifted underachieving students through the visual and performing arts.Teachers help students create personal meaning and creative expression through storytelling, creative movement, and visual art. Standards are met through arts infusion strategies. Workshops for twice exceptional students and their teachers include: "Hearing between the Lines," "Teaching Children Philosophy" and "Mime for Content Meaning." Our next conference is in 2017.
  • Univ. Of Connecticut
    Confratute Strand Coordinator
    Univ. Of Connecticut 1977 - Present
    Storrs, Connecticut
    CONFRATUTE 2016 is the summer educational conference/institute for student engagement, enthusiasm and innovative education at the University of Connecticut. I teach Storytelling, Mime, and Movement: Making Learning Creative and Kinesthetic. The summer session runs for one week with many strands to choose from.Previous Workshops I gave include: Storytelling: Hearing between the Lines; Student Retelling: Visual-Vocal and Kinesthetic Aspects of Communication; Teaching Philosophy through Storytelling; Movement for Math and Grammar; Mime Stories: Mime for Mining the Content; Science Poems and Circle Stories in Motion; Story Structures in Folktales; Poetry with Mime and Musical Sound Effects.On Monday evening I teach my workshop called: Kinetic Energy in Visual Arts: Exploring the Art-Sound-Movement Energy Connections. Participants experience the "motor responses" and energy efforts (Herman & Hollingsworth, 2001, Laban, 1948, 1975) manifested in the visual marks, lines, textures, colors and shapes of famous paintings and drawings. We transform them using percussion folk instruments and our bodies.I also direct one of the highlights of the week: an evening Variety Show where teachers and administrators share their songs, poems/stories, music, skits, and other talents.
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  • Mount Holyoke College
    Guest Speaker And J-Term Instructor
    Mount Holyoke College 2011 - 2016
    South Hadley, Ma
    Each year I have instructed students during the January Term in storytelling or mime.In addition I have given guest lectures in Teaching Children Philosophy through Children's Literature, in Dance in the Classroom, and also for an Education course.
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  • Nagc
    Member
    Nagc 1981 - 2016
  • Nagc
    Member
    Nagc 1981 - 2014
  • Naeyc
    Member
    Naeyc 1988 - 2015
  • Confratute, University Of Connecticut
    Strand Coordinator, Storytelling, Mime & Movement: Making Learning Creative And Kinesthetic
    Confratute, University Of Connecticut Jul 1978 - 2012
    Storrs, Ct
    A Strand is a week long afternoon course within the larger "Confratute," a conference-institute on creative and innovative programming for teachers to help nurture and develop the strengths, talents, and 'gifts' of students. Other strands involve math, geometry, science, social studies, and identification, as well as working with gifted and/or special needs students to develop their strengths. Gail has been affiliated with Confratute since 1978.
  • University Of Connecticut
    Confratute Strand Coordinator And (One Time) Co-Coordinator
    University Of Connecticut 1978 - 2011
    I have served as a Confratute Strand Coordinator for over 20 years and also served in the 80's as a Confratute Arts Coordinator. Presently, I teach a Strand in Storytelling, Mime, and Movement: Making Learning Creative and Kinesthetic.
  • Lesley University, Integrated Teaching Through The Arts, Creative Arts In Learning Graduate Program,
    Adjunct Professor
    Lesley University, Integrated Teaching Through The Arts, Creative Arts In Learning Graduate Program, 1986 - Jan 2010
    Throughout The United States
    Taught Graduate Courses to Teachers: Cultural History Through Storytelling, Introduction to Storytelling, Introduction to Movement in Learning, Introduction to Drama in Learning; Kinesthetic Learning Across the Curriculum.My work for Lesley University took me to many states: Washington, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, South Carolina, and Massachusetts.
  • Maryland State Department Of Education,
    Early Childhood Program Validator And Orientation Workshop Leader
    Maryland State Department Of Education, 2004 - 2009
    As an Early Childhood Program Validator, I worked for the Maryland State Department of Education, Early Childhood Division. Joyce Nixon was our Program Specialist. Program Validators observed and rated early childhood programs, public and private, on meeting developmentally appropriate practices, curriculum, administration, and safety.
  • Garrett College
    Teacher
    Garrett College 1989 - 2009
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  • Garrett College
    Teacher
    Garrett College 1989 - 2009
    I taught courses called Introduction to Storytelling; Children's Literature; Early Childhood Education; Speech Communication; Visual Imagery; and Creative Movement and Dramatic Expression.
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  • George Mason University
    Arts Consultant And Enrichment Consultant
    George Mason University 1998 - 2006
    As an Arts Consultant I have worked at George Mason University and Maryland Institute College of Art as a guest lecturer in various classes. I train teachers and museum educators, docents and others interested in appreciating art actively through all the senses while using the kinesthetic and musical intelligences. KINETIC KALEIDOSCOPE is the title of the book I co-authored; it contains many of the strategies I created. Students participate in a movement-musical-energy vocabulary, which they use to transform visual artworks into a kinesthetic-sound medium. Discussions follow.
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  • Univ. Of La At Layfayette
    Conference/Institute/Course Speaker, Gifted Education Conference Every Third Year
    Univ. Of La At Layfayette 1990 - 2000
    Lafayette, Louisiana
  • Univ. Of La At Layfayette
    Gifted And Talented Conference/Institute/Course Speaker
    Univ. Of La At Layfayette 1990 - 2000
  • University School, Tulsa University
    Arts Consultant For Javits Grant
    University School, Tulsa University 1992 - 1999
    At University School (Tulsa University) I taught teachers, parents, and PreK to 8th grade students (at risk and gifted) in the arts of storytelling, creative movement, mime and drama in the Student Active Interdisciplinary Learning System (SAILS) curriculum. I integrated the performing arts into the study of historical time periods from Egyptian , Classical, Renaissance, Neo-classical to Modern societies. Students learned to explore content and "to show what you know" through verbal and non-verbal responses. Architecture, animals, and inventions became the prototypical hooks upon which students associated each time period with its contributions, ideals and values, and its place in history of humanity. A series of books were written by the teachers under the direction of Dr. Patricia Hollingsworth, which detailed some of the explorations that teachers and students experienced. These materials are available from University School at the University of Tulsa, 918-631-5060. Two other books: Kinetic Kaleidoscope: Exploring Movement and Energy in Visual Arts and Active Learning: Increasing Flow in the Classroom are also available from University School publishing.
  • Keene State College
    Education Instructor
    Keene State College Sep 1972 - Jun 1976
    Keene, New Hampshire
    Taught Creating a Responsive Learning Environment, Creative Movement in Education, Taught Supervision of Student TeachersTaught First Grade for 4 years at the Wheelock Laboratory School, Keene State College, 4 years.
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  • University Of Massachusetts Amherst
    Former Student, Lecturer
    University Of Massachusetts Amherst 1967 - 1972
    Theater And Speech And Aesthetics In Education
    As a Theater major I taught voice for Dr. Marya Bednerick's class and Introduction to Acting in the evening session of 1972. I also taught Creative Dramatics and Movement in the Curriculum to paraprofessional teachers as part of a summer program in the School of Education.
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Gail N. Herman Skills

Teaching Storytelling Creative Writing Acting Editing Art Curriculum Development Books Theatre Writing Staff Development Drama Museums Coaching Publishing History Arts Poetry Creativity Folktales

Gail N. Herman Education Details

  • The University Of Connecticut
    The University Of Connecticut
    Curriculum And Instruction, Talent Development, Creative Edu., The Arts In Learning, Evaluation
  • The University Of Massachusetts, Amherst
    The University Of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Speech & Theatre -- Education
  • William Paterson University
    William Paterson University
    Elementary Education, N-8
  • Univ. Of Mass., Amherst; William Paterson Univ.,
    Univ. Of Mass., Amherst; William Paterson Univ.,
    Elementary Education And Teaching, N, Pre-K -8

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