For consideration to become a Total Learning Trainer, please send a cover letter, resume, and videotape of you teaching an integrated arts lesson to:
Dr. Susan Snyder
The Total Learning Institute
38 Tory Hill Lane
Norwalk, CT 06853
sue@aeideas.com
203/229-0411

The ideal Total Learning trainer will demonstrate the following:

• Positive attitude and strong leadership qualities
• Successful elementary and/or middle school classroom experience
• Strong arts background (music, movement/dance, visual art and/or drama)
• Experience with adult professional development
• Strong writing skills
• Excellent, positive, proactive classroom management skills
• Experience with integrated curriculum design, development, and lesson planning
• Organizational skills
• Passion for arts-based teaching and learning
• Passion for and liking of children
• Creativity, imagination, child-like thinking ability
• Musical skills such as singing in tune, echoing rhythms, reading notation, improvising rhythmically and melodically, composing, analyzing
• Visual art skills such as drawing, painting, sculpting, making murals, identifying visual symbols, using vocabulary of visual art discipline
• Movement skills such as basic locomotor and non-locomotor, choreography, structured and creative dance
• Drama skills such as storytelling, pantomime, tableau, ensemble work, stage presence, technical staging details
• Understanding of the rationale behind active, multi-sensory, multi-modal, hands-on, brains-on teaching and learning
• Self confidence and maturity
• Sense of responsibility - punctuality, excellent attendance, task completion
• Computer skills in Word, PowerPoint, graphics, gaming, videoconferencing

While most individuals will not have strong capacity in all areas, we seek a few highly skilled, creative, responsible professionals who have a wealth of experience to share, and the skills to share in meaningful and productive ways.
Does this describe you?
If so, Please apply!
Or contact Dr. Snyder for further information.