DMDL provides professional development services for non-music teachers, art teachers, and residency artists. Workshops, designed for specialized on-site training or retreat-style instruction, are based on known competencies, best practices and education standards requirements. Methodology includes:
- Instruction
- Understanding the importance of the arts
- The nature of creativity
- Multiculturalism and the arts
- Practice
- Arts advocacy
- Arts and its connection to academics
- Development
- Creating cross-curriculum lesson plans, teacher guides and class projects
Other areas of instruction include sessions on leadership, stress management, and classroom management. To support the trainings, we provide reference manuals, trainee workbooks, web resources, presentation slides, instructor guides, worksheets and other support materials.