Community~Word Project's Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program

We are excited to release the applications for CWP's Teaching Artist Training and
Internship Program for the 2008-2009 school year.
Please forward this information to any interested parties!
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Announcing Community~Word Project's Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program
(TATIP) for the 2008-2009 School Year
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Would you like to have the opportunity to:
~ gain the skills to be paid to teach your art form
to students in public school settings?
~ learn how to transform your creative practice into
teaching tools to integrate the arts into the public
school curriculum?
~ experience first-hand how the arts can be
integrated into public school classrooms through
our internship program?
~ join a community of artists that are interested in
using their creative skills to reach out to underserved youth in NYC public schools?
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We are pleased to announce the 9th year of TATIP,
which offers practicing artists and MFA students the opportunity to transform their
creative process
into teaching tools to integrate the arts into the
public school curriculum. Through this program,
participants gain skills that enable them to reach
out to underserved youth while gaining experience in
NYC classrooms.
This training gives patricipants the opportunity to identify
and explore their own creative and thinking processes
and then to transform these processes into effective
teaching tools. These tools become the foundation
from which one can build and implement a meaningful
curriculum. Throughout the training, participants will gain real-life classroom
experience through
our internship program as they assist experienced Community~Word
Project teaching artists.
*PLEASE NOTE: There is a $75.00 tuition contribution fee payable upon acceptance
to the program. Scholarships will be available; details and procedure for requesting
scholarships will be forthcoming with notice of acceptance.
Application Deadline: Monday September 15, 2008 10:00am
The application is due September 15, 2008 and can be
downloaded directly from our website.
Early applications are encouraged.
There are two levels of
training offered; one for beginning and new teaching
artists, and another for those that have at least
two years experience working with underserved youth
in the
public school environment. Applicants will be
notified of acceptance before September 26.
Please contact us with any questions about the
application or TATIP.
Program Breakdown
New and Beginning Level
~ The Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program (Beginning and New Level)
begins in October 2008 and goes through June 2009. It
begins with a mandatory five-day institute (five Saturdays; October 4,
October 18, November 8, December 6 and December 14 - ALL DAYS 10am-4pm)that will
focus on transforming your creative process into educational tools, developing
innovative teaching methods, discovering how to integrate arts learning into public
school curricula, exploring classroom management skills and developing arts-based
exercises for elementary, middle and high school public school students. The institute
is based on Community~Word's creative process exploration methods, teaching methods
and philosophies.
~ The
institute is followed by five mandatory monthly two-hour evening seminars
(January-June, dates TBA) that focus on reflecting on your experiences
and development as a teaching artist, and further preparing for the
classroom.
~ Throughout the Training and Internship Program you will gain hands-on teaching
experience by joining Community~Word teaching artists in classroom residencies.
From
November to May, trainees commit to observing and assisting in a CWP residency
classroom for one weekly session (45 -60 minutes long) for a minimum of
twenty weeks. Most of our residencies take place during school hours
(M-F, 8am-2pm) in NYC public schools in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and
Manhattan. Please know that internship assignments will not be
determined until the middle of October 2008 when we are able to
coordinate with our partnering schools and programs.
~ The training is open to creative writers, visual artists, theater artists,
dancers and musicians who are enrolled in an MFA program AND/OR are practicing
professional artists.
Advanced Level
We
also also offer an Advanced program for experienced teaching artists. To be considered
for the Advanced Training you must have at least two
years experience as a Teaching Artist (teaching your art form) with
underserved youth.
~ The
Advanced Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program takes place
between October 2008 and May 2009. It begins with a mandatory three-day
institute (three Saturdays; October 4, October 18, November 15 - ALL
DAYS 10am-4pm). The institute is a condensed version of the five seminars of the
New and Beginning Level program and is based on Community~Word's creative process
exploration methods, teaching methods and philosophies.
~ From November to January, advanced trainees commit to observing and assisting
in two CWP residency classrooms for at least two consecutive weekly sessions (45-60
minutes long) at two of our partnership schools (at least four sessions in total.)
Most of our residencies take place during school hours (M-F, 8am-2pm) in NYC public
schools in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan. Please know that internship
assignments will not be determined until the middle of October 2008 when we are
able to coordinate with our partnering schools and programs.
~ The
training is open to creative writers, visual artists, theater artists, dancers
and musicians who are enrolled in an MFA program AND/OR are practicing
professional artists.
For more information please contact Keith Kaminski, Program Coordinator at 212~962~3820
or by
email at kkaminski@communitywordproject.org