Work with Laurie Spigel
Laurie is available for workshops, lectures, tutoring, and consultations for children, teens, parents, families, and educators.
Rethinking Education with Laurie Block Spigel: An Exclusive Modulo Interview
Reimagining Education Through Homeschooling, Child-led Learning and Creativity, a conversation with Manisha Rose Snoyer of Modulo
Laurie has been a speaker at international conferences on alternative education, homeschooling and unschooling expos and conventions, and events at libraries and writing centers. She has taught popular classes in New York, New Jersey, Maine, Sydney, Australia, and internationally via video conferencing.
Homeschooling With a Passion
Jae Carter of Homeschool Yo Kids! interviews author Laurie Block Spigel about homeschooling, game-schooling, student-centered learning, and more.
Available On Spotify and On Youtube.
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Topics include:
Project-Based Self-Directed Learning
Also known as child-led learning or student-centered learning, the self-directed approach puts the student’s interests and needs at the center of their learning program. Learn how it is possible to take this approach and include every major academic subject, in groups as well as one-on-one.
The Side-Coach as Educator
In Spolin games, the teacher becomes a side-coach, a nearly invisible presence that offers guidance without interrupting the student’s flow or distracting them from their focus. In this group workshop, you will experience being side-coached while playing Spolin theater games. Participants will also have the opportunity to side-coach fellow players.
Literacy Through Book Arts
Sometimes the right blank materials are all that’s needed to inspire a child to write and create. It is even more powerful when the child makes those blank materials from scratch. Learn how to teach simple bookmaking techniques to children and how to pair bookmaking with poetry, writing games and engaging lessons.
Teaching Writing as a Creative Process
There are many ways to teach writing that can accommodate a wide variety of learning styles and intelligences. Laurie will introduce ways to engage children in writing fiction and creative nonfiction, using unconventional techniques and improvisational games that offer a creative group experience with personalized results. These techniques are particularly good for reluctant writers!
Games for Educators
Adults need to play as much as children do! Join in the fun and learn how to play the games of Viola Spolin and Neva Boyd with your children and students. These games can calm the nervous system and lower anxiety, develop sensory awareness and intuition, inspire imagination, and increase productivity in learning. Players also participate in non-judgmental feedback.
Let’s Create Something New!
Additional workshops and teaching engagements can be created to demonstrate and explain any of the curricula described in my books, or to address any situation or need in your classroom. Send a request for what you want or need to learn!
Workshops and lectures vary in length from thirty minutes to three hours.
Rates available on request.
Get in touch.
Interested in the topics listed above and would like to learn more about how we can partner together? Fill out the form on the right and let me know how I can support you on your educational journey.