Young Playwrights Inc.’s Advanced Teacher Training Institute provides an intensive focus on craft and the creative process while building on the foundation of improvisation and writing exercises established in the original Institute. You will learn to:

•stimulate useful and supportive discussion of a work-in-progress and facilitate peer dialogue.

•formulate guiding questions to encourage revision

•identify common dramaturgical problems and suggest relevant troubleshooting strategies

•analyze a play using exercises from the Write A Play! Curriculum such as the Major

Dramatic Question or The Need to Tell to define the qualities inherent in strong playwriting

•empower your students to become better writers and sharpen their critical thinking skills through the practice of self-questioning

You will receive:

•the Write A Play! Curriculum Guide, Stage Two

•five hours of Professional Development credit

And just like the Teacher Training Institute, this course:

•addresses Arts Learning outcomes for theater from the National Arts Education Standards

•meets NYS standards for Language Arts