Theater Arts & Music Coordinator
Colorado Springs, Colorado Area
In my teaching, I provide an environment conducive to optimal learning thatincorporates the multiple intelligences in a positive, interactive and engaging manner.By integrating all of the arts (theatre, music, dance, visual arts, and storytelling), Iprovide an avenue for students to fully express themselves, discover new ways ofperceiving the world around them, and reach their highest potential.*Incorporate theater and music principles through 3 Key Concepts in both artisticmediums: Integration, Interpretation, and Transformation in a “cross-curricular" environment to meet the needs of gifted and twice-exceptional students*Areas of focus in theater: Improvisation, performance, critical analysis,collaboration, ensemble works, language expression, movement, characterdevelopment, playwriting/analysis, technical design, dramatic structure,storytelling, masks and mime, and theatre history*Areas of focus in music: Rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, contrast, aestheticvaluation, theory, composition, and music history*Encore Team Lead: Bridging Theatre & Music with Academy ACL core curriculum teachers to planintegrated, co-teaching, standards-based math and language arts lessons to maximum students' DOK (Depth of Knowledge)