Professional Development Workshops When you go to hear a jazz
group play, you’re witnessing the creative process of a group of
individuals who feed each other ideas and feelings. The group
works as a whole to inspire its members to explore their own
voice while also supporting the other opinions within the group.
It’s a democratic process – cooperative learning at its finest –
the crossroads of creativity and curiosity. Jazz in Schools is
active in providing professional development workshops for teams
of teachers, teaching staffs and individual teacher training. We
work with arts and classroom teachers, college music education
majors and school administrators. Engaging teachers in the
creative process gives them a fresh approach to the delivery
methods used to meet the academic mandates of their teaching.
Jazz is a process that is structured and provides space for
creativity. It’s the “poster child” for best teaching practices
including Cooperative Learning, Setting Goals, Bloom’s Taxonomy
in Cognitive, Psyc