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Residencies
“We
have worked with a number of artist-in-residence - Angela is the best of
the best!
She filled our school
with a new sense of adventure and wonder about the world.”
Denise Buckman, Educator -
Grantham Village School,
NH
“Angela’s depth of content, organizational
skills, selection of stories, materials & awareness
of students’
developmental abilities, make her an excellent teacher of storytelling.”
Susan Peterson, Niguel Hills Middle School, CA
Residencies vary widely, from an annual or
seasonal performances to one session in- class workshops lasting anywhere
from thirty minutes to an hour or a day or short term and long term
residencies with multiple consecutive visits. All residencies are custom
designed with each client’s time frame, budget, residency focus, targeted
grade levels and curricular needs in mind. (See notated references
listing.)
All sessions are balanced, with each “lecture”
segment interwoven with modeling, exercises and collaborative large group, small
group and individual work. Each segment and class builds sequentially upon the
other, increasing personal comfort level, class sharing, interaction and
community, skills and techniques. Modeling of story technique, story work,
exercises and participant tellings occur during each class session.
While the basic process and “how to techniques”
remain constant, the longer the residency, the more attention & practice may be
given to the various exercises & telling techniques: variant & cultural - time &
historical comparisons; reworking-rewording-rewriting; practicing & polishing;
the practice and challenge of increasingly complex stories; imaginative
additions such as of the incorporation of universal props, simple costuming,
percussion, wind instruments or folksong and the opportunity of participants
performing for younger classes, peers, the student body, in the community or if
the residency culminates with a “Family Night” event.
“Students were so
captivated you could hear a pin drop.
Preparing for their own Folktale Festival, Angela incorporated her wisdom
about storytelling techniques into her web of storytelling, leaving the students
inspired, guided and ready to tell to the fifth graders.”
Kimberly Cashin, Mountain View Middle School,
Goffstown,
NH
“Very knowledgeable in curriculum,
Angela allowed storytelling to become a natural extension to what the teachers
were already doing.”
Susan Sponeman, Director, The Teacher’s Center, CA
“Enjoyable &
entertaining, Angela truly knows the topic of storytelling and how storytelling
can be easily incorporated into the classroom curriculum and benefit the reading
achievement of all students.”
Beth Simpson, Pond & Peak Reading Council, NH
© Angela C. Klingler, The Storyteller
Updated 2/12/2011
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