{"id":915,"date":"2013-02-21T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebzbproductions.ebzb.org\/washington-daily-news-teachers-study-freedom-riders-to-pick-up-new-teaching-techniques\/"},"modified":"2013-02-21T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T16:56:00","slug":"washington-daily-news-teachers-study-freedom-riders-to-pick-up-new-teaching-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/2013\/02\/21\/washington-daily-news-teachers-study-freedom-riders-to-pick-up-new-teaching-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Daily News: Teachers study Freedom Riders to pick up new teaching techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBy Mona Moore<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n
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\nTeachers study Freedom Riders to pick up new teaching techniques<\/h2>\n

A group of Beaufort County teachers spent a portion of Thursday learning how to incorporate the arts into school lessons.<\/p>\n

Held
\n at the Washington Civic Center, the workshop was an introduction to
\n\u201cThe Parchman Hour,\u201d a play that will be performed for high school
\nstudents March 14. That night, a free and public production is slated<\/p>\n

The play was funded by a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council.<\/p>\n

Serena
\n Ebhardt conducted the workshop. She has a role in the production. She
\nwas trained as a teaching artist by the John F. Kennedy Center for the
\nPerforming Arts and the Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n

Ebhardt
\n said the workshop had the dual purpose of preparing teachers to teach a
\n unit about the upcoming play and to show them ways of using audio,
\ntactile and visual methods of instruction to make lessons accessible to
\nall types of learners.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m here today to teach a workshop on how
\nto teach dramatic arts. Art serves as a platform, a foundation. It\u2019s not
\n disposable,\u201d she said. \u201cThe North Carolina Arts Council wants people to
\n understand that art is as important to everyday life as medicine, as
\nhistory, as science.\u201d<\/p>\n

The North Carolina Arts Council made it a goal to bring more arts to eastern North Carolina, Ebhardt said.
\n\u201cThey\u2019re basically giving this as a gift to the community and it\u2019s an educational and artistic experience,\u201d she said.
\nNorthside
\n High School band and chorus teacher Ashley Kuhns said she attended the
\nworkshop because she believed in arts education. She enjoyed Ebhardt\u2019s
\nmethods.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a unique way of approaching learning from open
\ndiscussions centered by a common artifact about an era in American
\nhistory,\u201d she said. \u201cThe questions and conversations could go on and
\non.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Parchman Hour\u201d tackles the subject of civil rights. The
\nplay is about the Freedom Riders who rode buses from Washington, D.C.,
\nto Louisiana in 1961 to test the 1960 Supreme Court ruling outlawing
\nsegregation in interstate public facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were bullied,
\nbeaten and almost killed,\u201d Ebhardt said. \u201cAnd they were thrown into a
\ncamp called the Parchman Farm before reaching the destination, New
\nOrleans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Washington High School teacher Andrew Shue said
\nEbhardt\u2019s workshop and the material was fantastic. He already uses some
\nof the techniques Ebhardt shared.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love using the comments and pictures \u2026 and need to do more of it,\u201d he said.
\nThe Freedom Riders reminded Shue of his students.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve
\n got kids who are 18, 19 years old in the Greensboro sit-ins, and Martin
\n Luther King said he was inspired by them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

If teenagers
\nof that generation could inspire one of the country\u2019s most influential
\npeople, Schue said, he wondered aloud about the students he taught.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so much untapped potential. What can we do to tap it?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Joey
\n Toler, executive director of the Beaufort County Arts Council, said he
\nhas been organizing the event for about a year. In addition to the
\n$9,000 grant to bring the production here, Toler said grassroots funding
\n would cover transportation for schools in neighboring counties to come
\nto Washington and see \u201cThe Parchman Hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re working with Washington County to bring their 11th<\/sup>– and 12th<\/sup>-graders
\n and with Hyde County to bus all of their kids in and it\u2019s taking a
\nvillage to get them all here and coordinated,\u201d Toler said.<\/p>\n

The
\narts council funds annual arts events for students. Toler concentrates
\non a different age group each year, and he sought something that would
\nbe appropriate for teenagers. He is currently in the planning stages of
\nbringing a production for middle school students to see and will plan
\nsomething for elementary school students next year.<\/p>\n

Toler saw a showcase of \u201cThe Parchman Hour\u201d more than a year ago.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s very powerful, very effective,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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