News Flash - You're Invited
The RT Room Website Launch Event
Here's the Skinny!
Be There or Be Square!
Our Project Managers will be on hand to tour you through the site. If you can't join us in person, please log in and look around. We would love it if you would also share us with your colleagues.
Reader’s Theatre can be defined as an integrated approach for involving performers and audiences in reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities. It involves the analysis, adaptation and sharing of narrative literature and is beneficial not only in the classroom, but also in the performing arts and community at large.
The RT Room was conceptualized by Ms. Mason and an elite group of communications students in a classroom setting. Building upon previous studies with Ms. Mason, her students have researched, curated, and developed the website. Each student assumed the role of Project Manager for an appropriate grade/reading level track, together with specialized materials for cross curricular, EEL/ESL, University and Community implementation of lessons or products utilizing Readers Theatre. After an open call for proposals, the project is happy to announce the inclusion of additional resources: lesson plans developed by Dr. April Sander’s pre-service teachers from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama and resources curated by Dr. Dennis Maher’s senior level Theater Studies class at the University of Texas Arlington.
Open Source Learning is an emerging practice that allows interested parties to make the most of the scope and power of the Internet to create and manage their own learning experiences and produce interactive material that is available online to everyone. “We want our website not only to be a place for educators and artists to quickly find resources, but also as a point of connection to those who are actively using and creatively implementing this amazing way to share literature” said Mason. “Building an online learning network of like-minded individuals is, we think, an important undertaking.” The RT Room was developed in cooperation with the Department of Communication at the University of Texas Arlington.
About Us
Email: mamason@uta.edu
Website: www.TheRtRoom.weebly.com
Location: University of Texas Arlington Fine Arts Bldg.
Phone: 817 272-2163
Twitter: @TheRTRoom
"Let’s stop wasting teachers’ time and money. Let’s start empowering them to find the knowledge they need and create effective learning communities with other educators that does not require large budgets or days spent out of the classroom." April Sanders, Ph.D.