Brayah has completed multiple practicum blocks as a drama teacher, working with grades 9 through 12. Her performing arts training and background lends her expertise in scene work, monologue work, improvisation, voice techniques, movement, acting methods, shakespeare, theatre history, and more. Throughout her practicums, she had a focus on making drama engaging for all learner backgrounds and interest levels. Brayah would also love to apply her theatre background to teaching student production classes.

Vocal Music is Brayah’s second teachable. Through volunteer work and private lessons, she has worked with various levels of singers aged 6 to adult. Her greatest strength as a music educator is her comprehensive knowledge of vocal health and safety. She is passionate about preventing vocal injury, especially in teenagers, and works mindfully with student vocalists to ensure proper technique. Her music reading, instrument familiarity, and conducting skills were an asset during her practicum placement in an instrumental music class.

Flexibility and adaptability are Brayah’s greatest strengths as she joins the world of classroom teaching. Through practicum placements, she also gained experiences in humanities and social science classrooms and personal fitness classes. Her success with a wide array of courses in highschool is also an asset to her occasional-teaching toolbox, including university level core French, science, history, and English. Brayah also has experience teaching with all grade levels, through volunteer work and her extracurricular arts classes.

Brayah’s arts background lends itself to creative lesson delivery that prioritizes finding multiple diverse means of engagement and participation for students. This results in greater success for students with varied backgrounds and strengths.

The young people Brayah works with have expressed that they appreciate being in a learning environment where they feel they are respected, where they are given agency, and where difficulties are met with grace and productive accommodations.

Brayah’s sense of patience and compassion for neurodiverse students started while working with a younger family member with special needs. This developed skills that carried on into her cooperative education placement, where she worked as one-on-one support for students with exceptionalities, and into her B.Ed classroom placements, working with students with diverse learning styles and support needs.

Recommended Participants: Grades 7-12, adults, SHSM Arts & Culture Workshops (advanced training in a technique)

Great For: Learning about the fundamentals of singing technique, experiencing singing a song from a musical as a group, learning to harmonize, easing in to singing solos in front of a group, community building, and arts appreciation. Popular with schools considering taking on a musical as a way to build interest and foundational skills.

Length: Adaptable from 60 to 150 minutes.

Recommended Participants: Grades 10-12, adult, SHSM Arts & Culture Workshops (advanced training in an art form)

Great for: Groups with an interest in creative writing, songwriting, music, or drama. Gaining an understanding of what goes into a musical, how to write lyrics, and how to assemble a plot. Creative thinking, community building, and understanding of an art form. Useful for schools / groups considering writing and presenting their own original show.

Length: Adaptable from 45 to 150 minutes.

Recommended Participants: Grades 7-12, adult, SHSM Arts & Culture Workshops (audition preparation)

Great For: Schools / groups with upcoming auditions for a play or musical, or interest in drama, singing, community theatre, or post-secondary theatre training. Building student confidence performing in front of others, practical singing and acting technique, audition etiquette and preparedness, and ability to work through feedback. Involves students preparing material in advance to workshop live in front of the group.

Length: Dependant on number of participants.

Recommended Participants: Grades 9-12, adult, SHSM Arts & Culture Workshops (advanced training in an art form)

Great For: Drama classes or English classes, before or after production field trips, as an introduction to a Shakespeare unit. Brining Shakespearian text to life by learning about tools and techniques for understanding and performing the words of the Bard. Become experts in Shakespearian scene work or soliloquy. Can even be tailored to relate to specific plays!

Length: 60-75 minutes.