A Teacher S Guide To Drama

Author : Margaret Friedl Johnson
Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : UVA:X030233233

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The Drama Teacher's Survival Guide by Margaret Friedl Johnson Pdf

Success assured -- for every show YOLI direct or produce! Written from 37 years of drama teaching experience, this book provides detailed, step-by-step information, examples and suggestions about how to direct a school drama program without mistakes, trouble or delay. The nineteen chapters cover everything: play selection, tryouts, rehearsals, costuming, props, lighting, publicity and final performance. To further clarify each step, examples are provided with illustrations, photos and proven ideas. Reproducible handouts and forms are also included together with a list of many additional resources. Whether you are a seasoned drama director or a beginner, you will find this book to be an invaluable aid. It will banish your stress and guarantee your success!

Author : Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor,Kathleen R. McGovern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000347326

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Enlivening Instruction with Drama and Improv by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor,Kathleen R. McGovern Pdf

This engaging and complete resource has everything you need to bring drama and theatre techniques into the ESL, EFL, or World Language Classroom. Are your students reluctant to speak out in class? Do they lack confidence in their language skills? The dynamic drama games in this book are the perfect catalyst to transform your students into engaged learners, and help them build confidence and language skills. The interactive theatre games and techniques are specifically designed for use in Second, Foreign, and World Language classrooms to empower students through meaningful, agentive language learning. With over 80 activities and games, and hundreds of extensions that can be catered to every level, this book provides teachers with clear, step-by-step instructions to teaching dramatic activities with L2 learners of all levels and backgrounds. The games and strategies in this book will enliven classrooms with communication that is creative, memorable, inspiring, and fun. Grounded in cutting-edge research, this book explains why teaching language through drama is effective and inspiring for teachers and students alike, directing readers to a wide array of resources and approaches to teaching language through theatre. You’ll also find guidance on leading drama games with language learners in a variety of online platforms, lesson planning models, and an example lesson plan for easy implementation in physical or virtual classroom spaces.

Author : Gary Langford
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781514495377

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A Teacher's Guide to Drama by Gary Langford Pdf

Gary Langford is the author of 33 books, including 2 previous textbooks, reflecting his talent as a teacher writer. The others are 10 novels, such as Vanities (Macmillan), Newlands (Penguin) and Sohrab (Amazon Kindle), 14 books of poetry, including The Sonnets of Gary Langford as his 14th collection, and 4 collections of his short stories. He has also written 5 musicals in the period he founded and ran a theatre, The Playhouse, at what was then the Macarthur College of Advanced Education, Sydney. In this period he directed around 75 shows, many of which he wrote. He was also the director of shows that toured schools, utilizing puppets, along with revues that played to schools, whether in a school hall or outside. A Teacher’s Guide to Drama grew from drama subjects he founded and ran, including Oral Communication, Drama in the Classroom, Children’s Theatre and Puppetry, along with Writing and Performance that culminated in shows that also toured schools, notably high schools in the south-west of Sydney. A key to open the door for you is his teacher writer background enabling him to try all the exercises that you will find in here. Some are old and traditional, others he originated and used in drama workshops that he ran. Rest assured, there will be something for you in this practical and amusing textbook. Hidden rooms of the mind are in a garden. Each one hears the language of the flowers.

Author : Keith West
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441178312

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Inspired Drama Teaching by Keith West Pdf

Inspired Drama Teaching is packed full of practical ideas to inspire your students and colleagues. This book offers tips and ideas on everything a teacher of secondary drama needs to cover, including: • Explorative strategies, such as role play and forum-theatre • Activities for making use of stimuli, such as scripts and music • Ideas for incorporating the elements of drama, such as rhythm and characterisation • Approaching drama as a medium, through the use of mime and make-up. This book includes a chapter on getting the students to work collaboratively, and one on making use of ICT within drama on the companion website. There is also a chapter dedicated to embodying drama and dramatic techniques across the curriculum, so you can get your colleagues excited about drama as well. There's a handy exam specification matrix online too. Inspired Drama Teaching isn't only for teachers just beginning their careers on the school stage; even experienced drama and English teachers will find plenty of new ideas and activities.

Author : Matthew Nichols
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350092693

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The Drama Teacher's Survival Guide by Matthew Nichols Pdf

"This is a terrific and instructive book, and an essential reminder of how inspiring and empowering a good drama teacher can be. I hope it's read widely and that new generations of pupils and teachers benefit from its wisdom and its verve." Nick Hytner Drama teaching is at a critical juncture. With new qualifications in the market, changes in government approach to the arts in education and hundreds of thousands of students wanting to be part of the country's hugely successful performing arts industry, the pressures on drama teachers are enormous. Many don't have a specialist background in drama and theatre and end up taking on the role of drama teacher; others feel disconnected from current theatre practice because of the time-demands of teaching; plenty of drama teachers feel they could be serving their students better, if only they had the resources and the support. For all of those teachers, this book will come as welcome relief. The Drama Teacher's Survival Guide provides support, inspirational ideas and rock-solid guidance for secondary drama teachers. It outlines the fundamental principles of a creative drama curriculum, and looks at how teachers can facilitate this and deliver inspiring lessons to fulfill the potential of their learners. It addresses head-on the common and numerous challenges that drama teachers face, from having to design their own creative curriculum to understanding how students learn. The author's own advice and expertise is supplemented by case studies, thereby collating and offering up the best advice and experience available. Written by Matthew Nichols, drama teacher for 12 years, this book offers a range of strategies, case studies and methods that really work.

Author : Chip Rome,Zoe Dillard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0986358703

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Real-World Theatre Education by Chip Rome,Zoe Dillard Pdf

Beyond lesson plans lurks the world of field trips, facilities, casting, directing, equipment, parents, finances, conferences, competitions, and collaboration. Real-World Theatre Education is a manual for learning how to ask the right questions and anticipate the challenges that come while navigating the unpredictable waters of teaching theatre. Learn to reach out for support, diffuse divas, connect with colleagues, organize productions---and keep your head above water! More info, including our table of contents and appendix items, is available on the EducationalStages website.

Author : Jerneral W. Cranston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Drama in education
ISBN : 0964800608

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Transformations Through Drama by Jerneral W. Cranston Pdf

Author : Mike Fleming
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781315460550

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Starting Drama Teaching by Mike Fleming Pdf

Why teach drama? How can a newcomer teach drama successfully? How do we recognize quality in drama? Starting Drama Teaching is a comprehensive guide to the teaching of drama in schools. Exploring the aims and purposes of drama, it provides an insight into the theoretical perspectives that underpin practice alongside activities, example lesson plans and approaches to planning. Written in an accessible style, the book addresses such practical issues as setting up role play, how to inject depth into group drama, working with text, teaching playwriting, as well as common problems that arise in the drama classroom and how to avoid them. This fourth edition has been updated to reflect the latest educational thinking and developments in policy and includes: a new chapter on researching drama; an extra section on digital technology and drama; guidance on different approaches to drama; advice on how teachers can achieve and recognize quality work in drama; a discussion of drama concepts including applied theatre, ensemble and rehearsal approaches. Acting on the growing interest in drama both as a separate subject and as a teaching methodology, this book is full of sensible, practical advice for teachers using drama at all levels and in all kinds of different school contexts. Written by an internationally recognized leading name in drama education, this book is valuable reading for trainee teachers who are new to drama and teachers who wish to update and broaden their range.

Author : Joss Bennathan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Acting
ISBN : 1848423055

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Making Theatre by Joss Bennathan Pdf

An inspiring, practical handbook for anyone working with young people to devise theatre. Provides a framework for a stress-free process.

Author : Kenneth Pickering,David Henson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350213944

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A Teacher’s Guide to Musical Theatre by Kenneth Pickering,David Henson Pdf

Are you a teacher of musical theatre who struggles to plan and construct lessons? Are you looking for a structured approach to teaching musical theatre to students of all abilities? Do you know your Ivor Novello from your Stephen Sondheim? Despite being one of the most popular forms of performance study, Musical Theatre is often the most difficult to teach due to its part-practical and part-academic approach. With few books on the market directly aimed at teachers, it can be a challenging and daunting task to devise a course of study that takes in the history of the form as well as considering the wider aspects that come together to make a successful musical. A Teacher's Guide to Musical Theatre enables teachers to plan and deliver courses in Musical Theatre with confidence and flair. The unique structure of the chapters guides teachers through key facts and concepts in musical theatre history and offers practical in-class activities for students. From topics for class discussion and essay assignments to journal entries and portfolios to sample test questions, this book is full of practical advice from experienced teachers in the field which make it the idea companion for teachers and instructors on diploma and degree-level courses, as well as those devising courses in part-time performing arts schools. Devised to provide sufficient engaging and inspirational material for an initial term or semester, the book establishes the principles of teaching this relatively new subject and encourages teachers to extend much further into the subject. From The Mikado to Hamilton and everything in between, this book breaks down decades of history into appropriately sized lessons, designed to give students a rounded survey of the subject and an understanding of how musicals work. Offering expert guidance to those with varied fields of expertise and practical experience but limited teaching experience, this book is the only existing guide to structured and stimulating practice.

Author : Andy Kempe,Rick Holroyd
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : College and school drama, English
ISBN : 0340548371

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A Teacher's Guide by Andy Kempe,Rick Holroyd Pdf

The Imaging: Resources for English and Drama series is a resource for the Key Stage 3 Drama, English and Humanities classroom. The three books in the series are built around imaginative and engaging fictional narratives. Students explore the material through a range of practical tasks, which may serve as the basis for individual teacher-led sessions or extended small-group projects controlled by the students. One teacher's book covers the whole series, providing detailed suggestions for use of the resources, an account of the role of Drama in the National Curriculum, and an introduction to its terms and techniques.

Author : Debbie Chalmers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317618072

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Drama 3-5 by Debbie Chalmers Pdf

Would you like to offer constructive, creative and exciting new dramatic learning experiences to the children in your setting? The importance of using drama to promote active and creative learning in the early years is widely recognised, and this fully updated second edition of Drama 3-5 will guide and inspire practitioners in all settings, allowing them to lead drama with confidence and enthusiasm. Young children participating in well planned drama activities learn to express themselves clearly and develop strong social skills, more self-confidence and a greater understanding of co-operation and team-work. Drama 3-5 contains a wide range of accessible activities and sample session plans, drawn from the author’s many years of extensive experience, which have all been fully and successfully tried and tested with children from 3-5 years. The book also explains the theory and value of all of the activities, as well as possible extensions and the ways in which they contribute to the learning objectives and goals of the Early Years Foundation Stage, allowing practitioners to encourage and assess children’s progress. Key chapters include: Building confidence Encouraging social interaction Mime and expression Speech and language Co-operation and teamwork Performance skills This book offers the tools and understanding needed for confident dramatic play and learning, making it an ideal companion to support every practitioner who wants to explore, develop and enjoy drama and have fun with their children.

Author : Manon van de Water,Mary McAvoy,Kristin Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317628934

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Drama and Education by Manon van de Water,Mary McAvoy,Kristin Hunt Pdf

Drama and Education provides a practical, comprehensive guide to drama as a tool for teaching and learning. It is among the first practical drama and performance textbooks that address brain-based, neuroscientific research, making the argument that creativity is necessary in our lives, that embodied learning is natural and essential, and that contextual learning helps us find our place in society in relationship to other peoples and cultures. As well as a historical and theoretical overview of the field, it provides rationale and techniques for several specific methodologies: linear drama, process-oriented drama, drama for social justice, and performance art. Each approach is supplemented with sample lesson plans, activities, ideas for differentiation, and extensive bibliographies. The topics are discussed from five key angles: • Historical and theoretical foundations • Curricular applications • Practical toolkits for a range of classrooms and learning environments • Different strategies for lesson plans • Extension options for longer workshops. Alongside these core methods, the integration of other innovative forms—from performance art to Theatre of the Oppressed—into drama-based learning is explored, as well as the pragmatic concerns such as assessment, planning, and advocacy for arts learning and arts education partnerships. Drama and Education is the comprehensive textbook for teachers and students on Applied Theatre and Theatre and Education courses.

Author : Jonothan Neelands
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN : 0435186582

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Making Sense of Drama by Jonothan Neelands Pdf

This book will give teachers from all subject areas the confidence to explore the possibilities of drama in the classroom.

Author : Raina S. Ames
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135873530

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The High School Theatre Teacher's Survival Guide by Raina S. Ames Pdf

A reference for high school theatre teachers covering both curricular and extracurricular problems – everything from how to craft a syllabus for a theatre class to what to say to parents about a student's participation in a school play.