The Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation is a proud affiliate of Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts through Gulf Coast Florida Wolf Trap.
This unique approach embraces active learning for children through customized, hands-on professional development for early childhood educators. By bringing the arts into the classroom, we provide joyful, active learning experiences that can increase academic and emotional development.
The interactive 5 or 16 visit residences support educators in learning new strategies for integrating the performing arts into their classroom lessons, through interactive demonstrations with children ages 3-6.
Gulf Coast Florida Wolf Trap
How it works:
Gulf Coast Florida Teaching Artists are trained in research-based arts integration techniques by master teaching artists.
Gulf Coast Florida Teaching Artists partner with Early Learning Classroom Teachers to identify learning objectives, and the teaching artists creates a customized lesson plan.
Together, they integrate the arts for young learners to explore early literacy, pre-math skills, and/or emotional learning in the classroom.
The Early Learning Teacher continues the arts integration learning by brining newly developed skills into their daily teaching practices.
For more information or to schedule a Gulf Coast Florida Wolf Trap residency, contact programs@performingartsfoundation.org
Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning:
Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts—the flagship education program of Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts—supports over 100,000 children and early childhood educators across the nation and around the world.
Arts integration can inspire children with a lifelong love of learning and of the performing arts. When you bring the arts into the classroom, you create joyful, active learning experiences that engage children in ways that can increase academic and social-emotional development for all kinds of learners.
Wolf Trap Institute’s professional development empowers infant, toddler, preschool, and kindergarten teachers to integrate the performing arts into their classrooms. For more than 35 years, Wolf Trap has worked with early childhood educators across the country to provide the training and tools they need to use the arts to teach and inspire.