Drama Teaching, Drama Tips, Features, Teaching Drama Online
Online drama lessons are still subject to the same high expectations of student behaviour and responsibility. Maintaining your normal routines before and during lessons will help to ground your teaching and your relationship with the students.
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Drama Games, Drama Teaching, Drama Tips, ELT, Features, Teaching Drama Online
Podcasts Spoken World Podcast with Salihah Agbaje traces David’s roots in Theatre in Education. Spoken World is the winner of the Quill Most Innovative Podcast 2021 award. Their topics range from mindfulness to psychology, education, the Arts and all things...Read more
Books, Drama Teaching, Features, Language Teaching, Primary, Secondary
These books are ideal for practical ideas to use right away. The first two cover secondary as well as primary and the others are for younger children. They are my favourite drama books at the moment! 100 Acting Exercises for 8-18 Year Olds by Samantha Marsden Samantha...Read more
Directing and Devising
Devising Theatre – links, exercises, practitioners and inspirational quotes
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Directing and Devising, Features
The second TheatrEd Theatre in Education Congress took place at the Pablo Picasso Theatre in Buenos Aires in May 2018. I was invited to present two keynotes, one on Drama in Language Teaching and one on Shakespeare. The videos below are from the Shakespeare...Read more
Books, Drama Teaching, ELT, Language Learning, Language Teaching
Recommended books on teaching and learning language through drama games and activities.
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Directing and Devising, Drama Teaching, Features
Recommended shortened versions of Shakespeare playscripts for children and young people to perform.
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Drama Teaching, Features, Primary Drama
Drama strategies can be used as everyday teaching tools for a wide range of subjects. (Extract from ‘Learning Through Drama in the Primary Years’).
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Drama Teaching, Features, Primary Drama
Drama is a close ally in the development of literacy, especially speaking and listening.
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Drama Teaching, Drama Tips, Features, Primary Drama
Classroom Management for Drama Lessons The challenge of managing the classroom during drama could be why some teachers are reluctant to teach the subject. Drama lessons are there to encourage free expression, so doesn’t this just lead to noise, over-excitement...Read more
