Directing and Devising, Drama Teaching, Drama Tips
A playlist of music for drama workshops, rehearsal or performance, including warm-ups, movement pieces and atmospherics.
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Drama Teaching, Features, Primary Drama, Training Resources
Children’s natural tendency towards make-believe play can be utilised at school through structured play and drama.
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Drama Teaching, Drama Tips, Features, Primary Drama
A dozen fabulous ideas and helpful books for teaching drama at key stage one.
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Drama Teaching, Drama Tips, Features, Primary Drama
Ten brilliant ideas and worthwhile books for teaching drama at key stage two.
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Drama Teaching, ELT, Features, Language Teaching
Drama for Language Teaching Drama is an effective way of supporting students in language learning, including English as a Foreign Language (EFL), as it uses active teaching and learning styles which motivate and sustain the attention of a wide cross section of pupils....Read more
Directing and Devising, Drama Teaching, Drama Tips, Features
These days Shakespeare can be taught to children and young people in very exciting and active ways – and there are numerous recent books to help teachers. These books bring alive the stories, characters, settings and language through lively games and exercises...Read more
Drama Teaching, Drama Tips, Features, Language Teaching
Stories can provide the launch pad for a one-off drama session or several weeks of work. Drama strategies can be drawn on to deepen the understanding of characters and situations or to explore alternative outcomes. Below is a list of books which provide great...Read more
Drama Teaching, Features
The ethos of drama in education today owes an enormous debt to the inspiration of one woman – Dorothy Heathcote (MBE). She developed an empowering approach to educational drama that fired the imaginations of children and inspired the work of teachers.
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Drama Teaching, Features, Primary Drama
Ways to develop fairy and folk tales into rehearsed performances, improvisations, tableaux and oral storytelling.
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Drama Teaching, Primary Drama
Using drama to explore bullying issues, giving pupils the opportunity to try out anti-bullying strategies.
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