A teacher Development Workshop: Teacher as Artist\Performer

An Academe Foundation Initiative

In partnership with: Flying V. Insular Oil. Rizal Memorial Colleges

Why a Teacher Development Workshop?

 Education is the key to changing the world for the better.

As a teacher, you are a valuable agent of change. How and what you
teach can inspire the young to make a different in the world but the
change must begin with you TEACHER.

Workshop Theme

The Teacher as Artist\Performer:

Exploring Powerful Theatre Techniques for Creative and Innovative

Classroom Teaching.

 If I were not an actor, I’d be a teacher. After all, teaching is very much like
performing. A teacher is an actor, in away. It takes a great deal to get, and hold a
class. – Richard Dreyfuss (Award-winning American actor)

What the workshop aims to achieve

 Energize the classroom teacher and empower her with top-notch theoretical
skills to make her more effective in the classroom.
 Inspire her to take a more creative approach to engage her students more
fully.

Modules

1. Tools of the Performer: Tools for the Teacher

Explore strengths and limitations and increase awareness of the body and
voice’s potential to express meaning, ideas, emotions, and stories.

2. Teaching with the body: Movement and Improvisation

This acting workshop for teachers will be focused on improvisation and
storytelling. The participants will rediscover, revitalize and strengthen their sense
of play.
3. The Crafts of the Storytelling for the Teacher
 This workshop provides an overview of the building blocks of the story and how
the techniques of the story telling can be employed by teachers and instructors to
convey their lessons to their students.

Participative Approach

 The workshop will include a combination of mini lecture\demonstrate,

monitoring and coaching, active participation and discussion in a
supportive nurturing environment.

An Advocacy of Singing Sigla Arts Foundation

 A non-profit organization dedication to community engagement and

enrichment through arts and culture.

Valued Partners and Supporters

 Mr. Chito Villavicencio-Prominent industrialist and business executive

Chairman\President, Academe Foundation
 Atty. Leo Abellera Magno- Chairman, Rizal Memorial Colleges
 Mr. Toto Villavicencio- President, Insular Oil, Davao City
 Atty. Ernesto Robillo- President, Rizal Memorial Colleges, Davao City

International Linkages

 Lincoln Center Institutes for the Arts in Education (LCI)

 International University Theatre Association (IUTA)
 International Theatre Institute-UNESCO
 Methodika
 And other organizations which believe in exploring the wondrous
possibilities of theatre arts to facilitate change and development in
education, health, and other social-economic areas.

Workshop Mentors\Facilitators

Project Director and Team Leader : Arsenio “Nick” J. Lizaso

 Member of the Board of Trustees of Cultural Center of the

Philippines
 Educator
 Actor and prominent director of stage, TV and film
 High-ranking member of World Theatre Organizations such as
IUTA and ITI-UNESCO
Tools of the Performer- Tools for the Teacher : Chesie Galvez- Carino

 Masters degree in Performance from the University of London

 Experience facilitator in theatre and drama related training
workshop
 Drama development coach
 Teachers theatre arts at the University of Asia and the Pacific
(UA&P)

Teaching with the body- Movement and Improvisation: Sarah Delphine

Buencamino

 Accomplished stage actress

 International training in acting (Italy, New York)
 Trained in Classical and Contemporary Dance and Musical Theatre
 Choreographer\Director
 Teaches at Ateneo University

The Craft of the Storyteller for the Teacher: Christian “X” Vallez

 Masters degree in Information Technology

 Two-time Carlos Palanca Memorial Awardee (Literature)
 Playwright
 Narrative designer
 Stage director
 Filmmaker
 Educator
 Multi-media authoring expert
Workshop Supervisor: Monique Escueta-Bunuan

 Director for Theatre Education Helen O’ Grady Drama Academy

Philippines Development through Drama
 M.A in educational Theatre
 M.A in Development Education
 Drama Teacher
 Stage Director

Sining Sigla Arts Foundation Directorate :

 Nick Lizaso : Executive Director

 Nick Tayag : Communications Head