Take a dramatic approach to your subjects with The Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ innovative Dramatic Learning™ program. Tailored to enrich or supplement your basic curricula, our professional teaching artists apply the dramatic arts in an interactive way.
Contact us at 303.893.6006 to schedule Dramatic Learning™ for your school.
Applicable to any grade level or area of study, Dramatic Learning™:
- integrates the arts into your curriculum through active student involvement
- helps students discover principles in math, science, social studies, language arts and health
- shows your students how the arts express a wide range of human experiences and encourages them to make connections to their own cultural heritages
- incorporates problem solving, critical and imaginative thinking while applying to multiple learning styles
We offer both pre-packaged and customized programs that address Colorado Model Content Standards:
Stage 1: Workshop
Prices start at $75 per workshop
One 45- to 60-minute individual workshop that can be tailored or chosen from pre-existing topics. Up to five workshops can be scheduled per day.
Stage 2: Package
Prices start at $150
Three to five consecutive sessions (45- to 60-minute) classroom workshops on these topics:
- Colorado History
- Civil Rights
- Historical Biography
- Animal Classification
- Water Cycle
- Digestive System
- Page to Stage (Literacy)
- Introduction to the CSAP (3rd grade only)
- Introduction to Shakespeare
- Playwriting
- Poetry
Stage 3: Multi-day residency Prices start at $250
For a more in-depth experience, we offer five or more 45- to 60-minute workshops on a subject that meets your needs. Guidance and planning time of a participating classroom teacher is essential and residencies often end with a culminating activity.
Stage 4: Professional Development Partnership
Prices start at $100
Integrate Dramatic Learning™ into your teaching style by teaming with our instructors to research, develop and teach the curriculum of your choice. We’ll join you for eight or more 45- to 60-minute sessions and, depending on the length of the partnership, you may be eligible to receive two renewal credits through the Colorado Department of Education. Prerequisite: Stage 2 or 3 (above).
All of our sessions include an overview, warm-up and clean-up time (as needed). While we generally come into your classroom, some activities may require a more open space. Alternatively, you may hold your sessions in our education studios. Our cost* covers 30 students, though more students may participate for an additional fee. All students and a certified teacher must be actively involved throughout the sessions.
* Design workshops may incur additional costs for materials.