Troupe d' Jour

Troupe d’ Jour has provided professional development for educators and administrators from its very beginning. In fact, the event that gave birth to TdJ’s inception was a textbook adoption tour for Harcourt (then HBJ) when hal was hired to demonstrate effective storytelling techniques for bringing the literacy content to life. That was 1991.

 

By 1993, the demand for these presentations led hal into post-graduate studies and, subsequently to create Troupe d’ Jour as an educational theatre company whose mission is to help educators engage students in ways that bring curriculum to life.

Or, to put it simply, TdJ helps teachers help students enjoy the learning process and achieve measurable results.

 

Workshop content can be expanded or compacted to fit the staff development setting desired: full-day, half-day, after school, even week-long conferences.

 

The success of residencies for professional development has proven lasting effects. When a TdJ teaching artist embeds in classrooms of one or more grade levels for a week or longer, the students connect to content while the teachers enjoy a ‘lab school’ experience in innovation. The artists model the process while handing over fresh techniques and insights.

 

Residencies can be designed to address problem areas in content or to simply enhance units wherein the teaching already has success. ELA, math, science, social studies— any subject— Troupe d’ Jour will create a plan of action to spur your campus toward its goals.

 

WORKSHOPS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE 

• Arts Integration Modalities: Student Success through Arts Integration

• The Art of Storytelling: How to Get the Most from a Story and Your Storytelling Style

• A Sea-Change in Perspective: TdJ’s Professional Development Excursion to the UK for Sites and Insights

• MI Possible: How Attention to Multiple Intelligences Truly Leaves No Child Behind

• Save Your Voice: Care and Nurture of the Most Important Teaching and Classroom Management Tool 

• Scaling the Poetic Escarpment: Keys to Piquing Student Interest in Poetry

• Teaching Shakespeare through Performance: Your Students Will Plead to Read More Shakespeare!