Creating a Theatre in Your Classroom and Community
Author: Bernie Warren
Publisher: Captus Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781553220282
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Reader's Theater Scripts--Texas History
Author: Timothy Rasinski
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Published: 2014-08-01
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1425896049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImprove students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. Engage students through Reader's Theater to make learning fun while building knowledge of Texas history and the significant people, events, and places that make Texas what it is today. Improve vocabulary and comprehension with repeated practice and performance of the scripts along with TEKS-based activities in the lesson plans, which include word study, comprehension questions, and extension activities. Make your classroom a Reader's Theater classroom today!
Theatre for Community, Conflict & Dialogue
Author: Michael Rohd
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book helps you provide opportunities for young people to open up and explore their feelings through theatre, offering a safe place for them to air their views with dignity, respect, and freedom.
Teachers Act Up! Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre
Author: Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2015-04-17
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 0807770655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf teachers want to create positive change in the lives of their students, then they must first be able to create positive change in their own lives. This book describes a powerful professional development approach that merges the scholarship of critical pedagogy with the Theatre of the Oppressed. Participants "act up" in order to explore real-life scenarios and rehearse difficult conversations they are likely to have with colleagues, students, administrators, and parents. The authors have practiced the theatrical strategies presented here with pre- and in-service teachers in numerous contexts, including college courses, professional development seminars, and PreK–12 classrooms. They include step-by-step instructions with vivid photographs to help readers use these revolutionary theatre strategies in their own contexts for a truly unique learning experience.
Backwards and Forwards
Author: David Ball
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780809311101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Considered an essential text since its publication thirty-five years ago, this guide for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather than contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts
Staging Sex
Author: Chelsea Pace
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-02-14
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 0429946457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStaging Sex lays out a comprehensive, practical solution for staging intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence. This book takes theatre practitioners step-by-step through the best practices, tools, and techniques for crafting effective theatrical intimacy. After an overview of the challenges directors face when staging theatrical intimacy, Staging Sex offers practical solutions and exercises, provides a system for establishing and discussing boundaries, and suggests efficient and effective language for staging intimacy and sexual violence. It also addresses production and classroom specific concerns and provides guidance for creating a culture of consent in any company or department. Written for directors, choreographers, movement coaches, stage managers, production managers, professional actors, and students of acting courses, Staging Sex is an essential tool for theatre practitioners who encounter theatrical intimacy or instructional touch, whether in rehearsal or in the classroom.
All the Classroom's a Stage
Author: Michael Flanagan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-10-28
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1475853696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll the Classroom’s a Stage reveals how teachers can apply theater skills to the craft of teaching and enhance their ability to engage and motivate students, cultivate collaborative learning, and become stronger and more dynamic ‘performers’ in the classroom. This bookillustrates how to use theater techniques to invigorate the craft of teaching in college classrooms across multiple disciplines. The book shows readers how to explore and apply improvisation, actor-training, and directing techniques to their classroom. By using discipline-specific examples, case studies, and a breadth of theater and teacher-training experience, the book reveals how theatre can strengthen teaching and learning, improve attendance, retention, and students’ commitment to their education and to each other. Whether a new teacher navigating the job for the first time or an experienced veteran hungry for new teaching methods, All the Classroom’s a Stage will transform a traditional classroom into a dynamic creative space built on collaborative sharing of the educational experience.
Theatre in the Classroom, Grades 6-12
Author: Jim Patterson
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2016-07-14
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1478634022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis latest edition, Theatre in the Classroom, Grades 6–12, equips prospective theatre teachers with key instructional methods and proven strategies for student learning. Building on the previous edition’s strengths, Patterson extensively modified and updated the entire text, incorporating the most recent theatre standards by the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards. This indispensable guide, whose theoretical and philosophical underpinnings and practical classroom applications endow it with a lifetime of use, includes ideas for resource portfolios, checklists, rubrics, and other assessment tools. Of additional value are discussions concerning managing the classroom, linking school play production with classroom learning, and recognizing and responding to classroom diversity. Patterson details important considerations and resources for planning productions, ranging from those available from professional organizations to those found within the community to those generated by students. He believes theatre learning must go beyond the study and performance of established play scripts and stresses the importance of productions written, directed, designed, and managed by students. End-of-chapter sections include: “Extension Activities”—ways to help prospective teachers further explore the subject in the college-level methods course; “Stay Connected”—websites for additional resource and research materials; and “Professional Development”—suggestions for expanding personal and career development.
A Dramatic Approach to Reading Comprehension
Author: Lenore Blank Kelner
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In addition, A Dramatic Approach to Reading Comprehension includes a comprehensive treatment of assessment in both drama and reading comprehension. Readers will find a variety of assessment guidelines, tasks, tools, and definitions of terms." "Discover the power of merging drama and reading comprehension by taking A Dramatic Approach to Reading Comprehension. Book jacket."--Jacket.
The High School Theatre Lighting Rep Plot
Author: Elizabeth Rand
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-10-02
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781539199182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese days it's common for a high school to rent their theatre out to the community and host other schools in their district, as well as use it for their own school events. High school theatres often host such a variety of different events that they essentially operate as a "roadhouse", which can cause a variety of conflicts between its users. The band teacher complains that the drama teacher is always leaving the lighting system set up wrong, and the drama teacher complains that the band teacher is always leaving the lighting system set up with no color. The choir teacher stays out of the fray because he doesn't know how to operate the lighting system at all. The outside events that rent the theatre are frustrated by the amount of time it takes them to figure out how the lighting system is set up while they are paying for the rental at an hourly rate. Does this sound like a familiar scenario at your school? If it does, this book is for you. Although every event that comes into a theatre is unique, there is a way to provide a lighting system that can easily be applied to many uses of the space. This is called a Rep Plot (short for Repertory Plot). A Rep Plot is a standardized lighting system, which is versatile for almost all performances and can be easily adapted to provide lighting for any event from class meetings, speakers, film presentations, variety shows, band and choir concerts to plays, musicals and dance recitals, while allowing for show-specific flexibility within a reasonable time frame. This book will take you through a step-by-step process to design, hang, focus and patch your own rep plot at your high school. If you've never had a Rep Plot before, or if your Rep Plot needs a bit of TLC, once you follow the step-by-step process in this book to design, hang, focus and patch your own rep plot, you will be able to tame the Chaos inherent in running a "roadhouse" in a high school setting.
