Well it’s been a wild couple months as a teaching artist!
I’ve continued working with Shadow Box Theatre Company while schools have been shut down to adapt our puppetry courses to a virtual world. I’ve spent the end of the school year adapting and developing two different course.
The first course was for classes of students with developmental differences. I created 18 short videos (along with my sock puppet friend, Timothy) to engage their imaginations and motor skills.
The second course was for 3rd through 5th graders where my co-teacher and created a 6-week curriculum that smashed together object puppetry work with practices from Theatre of the Oppressed.
It was a ton of work but the students, teachers, and parents seemed to appreciate a different energy to help keep this bizarre time interesting!
