YET offers a range of programs for students in grades 4 through 12. We also offer professional development trainings for educators, drama specialists, and group leaders.
- Acting & performance techniques
- Visual literacy
- Group management skills
- Social skills & confidence
- Flexible & Innovative thinking
Youth Ensemble Theater Programs for 4th – 12th Graders
YET Theater Program
In this YET program, young people create their own theater piece through an intensive ensemble building theater experience, which includes the cultivation of SEL practices as well as acting techniques for the stage.
YET Social Skills & Group Awareness Program
In the YET SEL program, young people learn SEL practices and habits through an immersion in games, exercises and group-building activities! Improvisational acting exercises as well as ensemble theater games are used to cultivate CASEL’s five Core SEL Competencies: Self-awareness, Self-management, Social awareness, Relationship skills and Responsible decision-making.
YET Visual Literacy & Filmmaking
In the YET Filmmaking, young people view, discuss, and make their own short films. By learning about visual storytelling. This visual literacy program provides a framework for story structure using the visual learning modality.
Contact us to schedule a YET Program for your students or educators!
Professional Development & Training Institutes for Educators, Group Leaders, Youth Theater Directors
YET’s professional development institutes for teachers are fun, engaging, hands-on sessions where teachers learn to use YET’s signature techniques to support visual literacy as well as social emotional development in their classrooms.
YET SEL: Teachers learn YET group-building games to support social emotional awareness in their classrooms. Improvisational acting exercises as well as ensemble theater games are used to cultivate CASEL’s five Core SEL Competencies: Self-awareness, Self-management, Social awareness, Relationship skills and Responsible decision-making.
YET Visual Literacy: Teachers are taken through a process of viewing, responding to, and analyzing award winning international short films. This approach supports educators to utilize film as a literacy tool for visual learners as well as English Language Learners.
Contact us to schedule a YET Institute for your students or educators!
For more than a decade, Youth Ensemble Theater has worked with groups of intergenerational adults, youths, and children to create ensemble theater, using its own combination of theater games and social awareness strategies. This fall, YET opens its doors to educators, group leaders and community members to learn this technique so that they can bring them to their own programs, groups, and school communities.
Qualifications.
YET was developed by Amy Poux, formerly the Director of Education at Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Coordinator of Arts Education, & Talent Development at Ulster BOCES, and educational specialist on Project Based Learning and arts education of 25 years. A professional actress and director, Poux combines educational expertise and theater techniques to create non-competitive group environments in which its participants can thrive.
Founded in 2005, Youth Ensemble Theater (YET) is a theater program that supports young people’s Social Emotional Learning – through the serious study of ensemble acting techniques.