Professional Development at Greater Dandenong

Presented as part of the Arts and Culture Education Program

Polyglot Theatre’s professional development workshops are for teachers and practitioners who work with children. The workshops aim to introduce Polyglot’s distinctive philosophy, process and work; and assists teachers to expand their existing practice and approach to working with children.

Polyglot is an arts company and the artists facilitate opportunities and experiences for children to play, create and lead. The artists facilitate with the intention to have fun and to empower and build a child’s confidence in their natural ability to follow their own impulses, make decisions, interpret and make meaning of the world they live in. Polyglot knows children are capable responders to artistic, social and cultural change. Polyglot collaborates with children to create theatre, inspired and guided by their play, ideas and artwork. Polyglot Theatre performances feature active participation from audience members through touch, play and dramatic encounter.

This Professional Development workshop focuses on child-led practice; how the adult can facilitate authentic agency and become the learner, participant and observer. Through a series of highly interactive and collaborative exercises, you will develop new skills and ideas, and expand on ways of seeing and being with children. This workshop is a refreshment of the child/adult relationship, shifting perspective in order to imagine another way of approaching the teacher/learner model.