Teaching Artists/Artists Download Application | Experienced Teaching Artist Application | Undergraduate Teaching Artist Application | Dates for 2007-2008 Training The Community~Word Project believes that trained teaching artists have a greater chance of creating successful experiences for the young people and classroom teachers we serve. Our twenty-five week Training & Internship Program offers new teaching artists the opportunity to transform their creative skills into innovative educational tools while gaining hands-on teaching experience. Whether the learning environment is a public school classroom or a community center, a prison or a halfway house, teaching artists benefit from a comprehensive training program. Due to generous support from the Dana Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts, we now offer three concurrent trainings; one geared toward teaching K-6th grade students, one geared toward addressing the needs of middle and high school students and one geared for experienced teaching artists. We recruit artists from MFA programs in the New York City Area and from performance and visual arts venues across the city. The training is open to practicing professional creative writers, visual artists, theater artists, dancers and musicians. * The Training and Internship Program takes place between October and May. It begins with a mandatory five-day institute (five Saturdays over the course of four months) focusing on developing innovative teaching methods, exploring classroom management and developing creative expression exercises. * The institute is followed by monthly two-hour seminars that focus on further preparing for the classroom. * Interns gain hands-on experience by joining Community~Word Project teaching artists in our classroom residencies. * We have visits from arts-in-education professionals who further link you with organizations that may be looking to hire teaching artists. * We host an annual Teaching Artist Information Job Fair Panel held in May. We encourage all serious writers, theater artists, visual artists, dancers and musicians to apply. (You need not be affiliated with an MFA program) We will begin accepting applications for the 2008-09 Teacher Artist Training and Internship Program in June 2008. For more information about The Community~Word Project Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program please contact Keith Kaminski at 212~962~3820 or write us at kkaminski@communitywordproject.org This service is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and with generous support from the Dana Foundation.