Matt teaches a Half-Day Teacher workshop for Schools, School Districts and ESUs:
Poetry can be a difficult subject for both students and teachers. Matt Mason helps teachers get more comfortable teaching poetry, and by the end of the day teachers will leave:
-feeling more comfortable teaching poetry.
-feeling more comfortable about understanding poetry.
-with tips on how to teach poetry in ways to better reach their students and get them interested in poetry.
-with lessons they can use to teach poetry writing to students.
This workshop is for elementary, middle school, and secondary teachers that work with students that are interested in the subject of poetry, including both reading and writing.
Matt is the Nebraska State Poet and has run workshops around the country as well as for the US State Department in Botswana, Belarus, Romania and Nepal. As State Poet, he’s been working to make poetry more accessible and interesting and would love to help teachers do the same with all he’s learned over the years.
For more information, contact Matt at: mtmason@gmail.com
And for Nebraska teachers, ask Matt about grants available through the Nebraska Arts Council and Humanities Nebraska.