Join us for the 2011–2012 season of the Center for the Performing Arts School-Time Matinees series—a laboratory of live theatre!
We encourage you to integrate the arts into your classroom, particularly as related to the performance you and your students are attending.
Because we know your classroom time is precious, we have pointed out subject area connections that follow the Pennsylvania Academic Standards and the Pennsylvania departments of Education and Public Welfare Learning Standards for Early Childhood. We hope you find these materials worthwhile and meaningful to your students. Please note that this is a guide for your use, and we encourage you to freely adapt it to suit the needs and interests, along with the age level, of your students.
Teaching materials will be available on this website one month before the School-Time Matinee. School contacts will be notified via e-mail.
Under General Information you’ll find reservation details and field trip funding ideas, including a busing subsidy application sponsored in part by the Bill and Honey Jaffe Endowment. In case you have time to stay at the University after the matinee, we provide suggestions for planning your visit to Penn State. And, we have a new section on the website—Show and Tell—to extend learning at home. It has useful information about the performance for parents to reference when asking their child about their day.
By bringing your students to a live performing arts experience, you are giving them the gifts of broadened perspective and experiential learning. We’re glad you are choosing to explore our site. Thank you, and please let us know what you think.
E-mail your comments or questions to me.
We look forward to seeing you and your students in our audience!
Amy Dupain Vashaw
audience and program development director