Teaching as an Art

Grade Level Preparation

June 23 -27, 2025
Wheat Ridge, CO
(Near Denver)

Cohorts include ECE, Grades 1- 8 and Specialty Teachers; including Music, Games, World Language, and School Leadership.

Class Teachers will experience the following elements of preparation for their Grade Level:

• Focus on Storytelling
• Year Overview – curriculum content and main lesson placement
• Preparation of the Annual Block Plan – bring your school’s calendar for 2025-2026
• Lesson Planning for the 4-fold lesson
• Integrating Diverse Children’s Literature and Storytelling to meet the children in your class
• Forming your class and introductory activities to start the year
• Child Development for this age children & how to meet them in the appropriate way
• Classroom Management
• Age appropriate movement, games & circle activities that keep students engaged and challenged
• Speechwork & poetry, verses for your grade level
• Science at your grade level
• Singing & instruments appropriate for the grade level– and enrichment activities to engage your students in learning)
• Skills (math & literacy) expectations for your grade level–Introduction of the Gradalis Curriculum Frameworks.
• Drawing & watercolor painting at your grade level
• Suggested Field Trips to enhance learning and build the community in your classroom
• The Class Play – ideas and grade level appropriate approaches
• Games & Movement for children at your grade level
• The soul mood required by the teacher as “loving authority” in the classroom appropriate for this grade level
• What lies behind the curriculum at this grade level–why do we teach what we teach this year
  Introduction to each Main Lesson Block of the year with Content (Instructors model lessons, story-telling, poems, music)
• Diversity Exploration at each grade level