How are the Professional Development Institutes taught?
The Professional Development Institutes simultaneously explain and model how to teach (OUT)LAW & ORDER. Instead of lectures, teachers work in small groups, forming learning communities, as they will later instruct their students to do. Using the (OUT)LAW & ORDER textbook, they engage in the activities suggested in the (OUT)LAW & ORDER Teacher’s Guide. Further, the teacher/theater artists will conduct the same theater activities related to curriculum content that they will use in the classroom. This process demonstrates how to integrate (OUT)LAW & ORDER studies into their standard History and Language Arts curriculum. Teachers learn ways to collaborate with their theater/teacher artists and how to continue as active participants in their classrooms throughout the artists’ residency.
