Youth On Target at Face to Face!

Face to Face 2008

Emerging Professionals in Theatre Education
Caitlin Heibach, Isabel Steuble-Johnson, Jonathan Schmidt, Lindsay Weiner, Christina Zagarino.

Four recent graduates discuss their first years of practical experience and work in the field of arts education, ranging from administrative duties, teaching artistry, full-time classroom teaching, and the start-up of a new educational theater company.

This session examined how young people gain interest in arts education, the search for positions in the field, the various routes one may choose to take with this background, and ideas about future professional development, trends, and practices.

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General Topics of Discussion

Who are we?

What does “the field” look like?

Use of technology- MORE

Job postings

What can we know before?

How do I grow? 


Wish List

Arts job fair

      One for DOE arts teachers

      One for TAs

How do you get teachers and TAs to combine forces and learn how to work with one another?

TA organizations (one centralized place for all TA info)

Graduate programs (Who has what?  How can I study to be a TA?)

Institutional communication (bringing TAs, administrators and teachers together—partnerships and collaborations)

Tools (What do I need to know as a TA, Theatre Teacher, etc.)

Utilizing technology to communicate/get the word out about tools

Administrator software

Finance (college courses specifically for TAs and administrators)

Entry-level Roundtable community

Meetings 1:1= let’s get together over coffee with our peers

Administrator communities

Formalized gatherings

TYA USA- they get the word out there about internships, can we publish an internship guide with all of our organizations involved?

Singular location for theatre TA, teacher and administrator listings