A PD Day is a great way to introduce the Act2Learn methods and Lesson Plans to teachers. If you choose to integrate a Pd day with the Residency program, it makes a good follow-up process, allowing the teacher to see how “acting out” the curriculum can help in teaching the subject, reviewing it, and presenting it as a play at a Celebration of Learning, assembly or concert.
Typically, a PD day involves leading the teachers through a number of Act2Learn lesson plans, as well as looking at the ways in which the creative writing process can be enhanced by physical brainstorming methods.
In a full day PD session we would take the morning to go over sample science lesson plans from each grade level. These might look at colour, water, sound, rocks and minerals, light and shadow, electricity, properties of air and phases of the moon.
The afternoon session would look at the creative writing process and how physical brainstorming, and storyboards can be used to get students farther down the path of creative writing. The process demonstrated here is the same one that we use to create a show in a week – it just stops after the initial creation stage rather than progessing through to rehearsals.
PD Day Workshops