Teaching Artist Mentoring and Professional Development Program (TAMPD)

Together in Dance provides comprehensive training and ongoing professional development to all teaching artists on its roster through its Teaching Artist Mentoring and Professional Development Program (TAMPD).

All Together in Dance Teaching Artists participate in this comprehensive, collaborative, and supportive program: 

  • Bi-monthly professional development gatherings that target a specific topic relevant to the arts education field

  • One on one mentorship. Each new TID Teaching Artist shadows a master Teaching Artist during the course of a residency.

  • Support from a master Teaching Artist during a new Teaching Artist's first residency. The master TA will help develop the curricular arc of the residency, offer strategies to address any challenges, and provide feedback on the mentee's teaching practice 

  • All TAs on the roster have the opportunity for facilitated cross site visits in order to share best practices with one another

  • All TAs on our roster receive ongoing support and professional development, even after their mentorship has completed

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This program builds the community within the organization and contributes to the field at large by encouraging our artists to examine their teaching practice more deeply and to share best practices amongst each other.  

Through TAMPD, Teaching Artists will learn to:

  • Develop a unit of study appropriate and relevant to the students

  • Have clarity of direction that matches the TA's expected student outcomes

  • Use modeling that encourages children to make their own choices, rather than copy what they see

  • Guide students to shape and refine their creative product

  • Facilitate reflective practice in relationship to the art form Be able to articulate the value of approach, specific activities, and philosophy to teachers and other artists

  • Develop culturally responsive curriculum highlighting inclusion and equity