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Why is it called Wolf Trap?
TPAC's Wolf Trap Early Learning Through The Arts is a regional program of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts (www.wolf-trap.org), an internationally renowned cultural organization affiliated with Wolf Trap Farm Park, the first and only national park for the performing arts. The park is located in Vienna, VA right outside Washington, D.C. Wolf Trap is the original name of the farmland donated for the park by Catherine Filene Shouse.
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What happens during a classroom session with a teaching artist?
Teaching artists lead children in activities that develop their mental, physical, emotional and social skills. Activities can include singing, role-playing, targeted imagination games, movement and dance, puppet stories, music interaction, and creative response. Children actively participate throughout the session, and teachers encourage students their own involvement and often leadership within the activities.
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What happens during an artist-teacher strategy meeting?
Strategy meetings are a time apart from the class time for teaching artists and teachers to examine and discuss how students are responding to the artists and Wolf Trap activities as well as how they are progressing towards the teacher’s goal. Teachers and teaching artists build specific strategies for classroom and individual student needs as well as addressing teacher interest in particular arts techniques.
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How long are Wolf Trap sessions?
Sessions can be 30-45 minutes long, but 30 minutes tends to be the best time for 3-to-5 attention spans within the Wolf Trap model.
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Why do I have to set a goal?
Within seven-week residencies, goals allow Wolf Trap teaching artists to respond to a teacher’s specific needs for her class. Teachers learn more about arts strategies and can track student improvement more specifically if we emphasize one area. Wolf Trap activities address many early development goals at once, and the one goal does not eliminate the other kinds of learning happening in the Wolf Trap session.
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How can my school or library participate?
To bring Wolf Trap services to your pre-school center, to bring a Wolf Trap Parent/Child workshop to your local library, or to participate in a Wolf Trap teacher workshop, contact Lattie Brown at TPAC for fees and scheduling information:
Phone (615) 687-4287
E-mail lbrown@tpac.org
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How much does it cost?
One week residencies range from $300-$750 depending on the number of classrooms and additional services.
The cost of one seven-week residency is $950.00 with a minimum of two residencies per school. For seven-week residencies in Head Starts and other accredited centers with at-risk populations, TPAC Education has some funding available.
The cost of one eight-week library residency is $800.00 with a minimum of two residencies per library.
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