This workshop for middle and high school educators will connect the VDOE Dance Arts Standard of Learning strands of Creative Process and Technique and Application as they relate to dance-making. Teachers will learn tools for facilitating improvisation based on various stimuli that guides students to generate movement possibilities and then make movement choices to set choreographic phrases. The workshop will include a template for students to reflect and respond to the work of their peers. Rooted in the Elements of Dance (body, action, space, time, and energy) the activities in this workshop are applicable to all dance styles.

Participants will engage with technologies that facilitate creative music making and discuss where student imagination belongs in standards-based curricula.

In this video (6:12) Virginia high school art teacher demonstrates adding visual interest to student sketchbooks to enhance creative thinking.

In this video (4:53) a Virginia art educator shares stratagies for guiding students through creative processes in elementary art.

In this short video (2:35), a Virginia art teacher shares a strategy for teaching creative thinking by enabling students to express personal ideas, images, and themes through artistic choices of media, techniques, and subject matter. 

In this video (4:43), a Virginia music educator demonstrates how to compose and improvise music by creating a variation of a musical phrase using the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. technique.