DRAMA TEACHING TIPS
Drama tips for acting, language teaching through drama, drama book ideas and much more! Click dropdown menu to select your topic.
12 Tips for Learning Lines
Learning lines for plays or speeches is not always easy - here are twelve tips to help!
5 Creative Drama Ideas For Your Classroom
Drama uses the greatest resource that teachers have available to them – children’s imagination. Creative play is a natural part
7 Levels of Tension
The 7 levels of tension are used to explore the dynamics of a character, scene or improvisation.
Anti-Bullying Drama Unit
Using drama to explore bullying issues, giving pupils the opportunity to try out anti-bullying strategies.
Bringing Fairy Tales to Life through Drama
Ways to develop fairy and folk tales into rehearsed performances, improvisations, tableaux and oral storytelling.
Cinderella – Listen To Me – Restorative Justice (5-11 years)
Explore bullying issues through the story of Cinderella using drama, writing and restorative justice techniques
Commedia dell’arte Drama Unit
Commedia dell’arte began in the marketplaces of 16th-century Europe as improvised theatre which was rude, funny and satirical.
Devising Theatre
Devising Theatre - links, exercises, practitioners and inspirational quotes
Dorothy Heathcote – Pioneer of Educational Drama
The ethos of drama in education today owes an enormous debt to the inspiration of one woman - Dorothy Heathcote
Drama Across the Curriculum
Drama strategies can be used as everyday teaching tools for a wide range of subjects. (Extract from 'Learning Through Drama
Drama for Language Teaching
Drama is an effective way of supporting students in language learning, including English as a Foreign Language (EFL), as it
Drama For Writing
Drama can provide children with a meaningful purpose for writing. (Extract from 'Learning Through Drama in the Primary Years').
Drama Menu at a Distance: 80 Socially Distanced or Online Theatre Games by Glyn Trefor-Jones
Drama games for socially-distanced and online teaching, carefully planned for this difficult period we are living through.
Drama One to One Online/Offline
Therapeutic drama one-to-one, online and offline - an interview with Janine Oxley.
How to Direct a Show Online
Is it possible to continue rehearsals for a youth theatre production with a cast of 33 during the coronavirus crisis?
Keeping Control in the Drama Lesson
Classroom Management for Drama Lessons The challenge of managing the classroom during drama could be why some teachers are reluctant
Key Stage 1 Drama Lesson Ideas
A dozen fabulous ideas and helpful books for teaching drama at key stage one.
Key Stage 2 Drama Lesson Ideas
12 brilliant ideas, games, lesson ideas and practical books for teaching drama at key stage two (5-12 years).
Make your own frog and toad puppets
Norwich Puppet Theatre teach you to make a toad puppet
Mountview Live Interviews
Zoom interviews with Dame Judi Dench, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Noma Dumezweni, Amanda Holden, Glenda Jackson and Stephen Daldry
Mr Horne’s Performing Arts Channel
A YouTube channel produced by Mr Horne for his Primary Performing Arts curriculum classes – well worth a look!
Music for Drama Workshops
A playlist of music for drama workshops, rehearsal or performance, including warm-ups, movement pieces and atmospherics.
My Favourite Drama Teaching Books
These books are ideal for practical ideas to use right away. The first two cover secondary as well as primary
Non-Verbal Communication
Discussion and activities exploring the power of non-verbal communication
Plays for Children
In this interview Alison Chaplin talks to David Farmer about her plays for children and how she got into writing
Podcasts and Webinars with David Farmer
Podcasts and Webinars about drama teaching featuring drama consultant David Farmer
Primary Drama Ideas
Teaching drama in primary classrooms - a collection of articles, tips, games, strategies, techniques and books
Shortened Shakespeare
Recommended shortened versions of Shakespeare playscripts for children and young people to perform.
Six Books on Drama for Language Teaching and Learning
Recommended books on teaching and learning language through drama games and activities.
Story Books for Drama Teaching
Stories can provide the launch pad for a one-off drama session or several weeks of work. Drama strategies can be drawn
Teaching Gold Mining in New Zealand through Drama
These five incredibly simple methods for drama teaching inspired a teacher in New Zealand to bring to life her social
Teaching Literacy Through Drama
Drama is a close ally in the development of literacy, especially speaking and listening.
The King’s Sentence – a world without words
Lesson plan and original story for KS2 exploring non-verbal communication through gesture and sign language.
The Musicians of Bremen Script
Sparkling play script of the Brothers Grimm tale for performance in schools
The Tiger Child Drama Unit (4-7 years)
A range of drama and storytelling activities based on a traditional Indian folk-tale for KS1 and reception.
TheatrED Buenos Aires
The second TheatrEd Theatre in Education Congress took place at the Pablo Picasso Theatre in Buenos Aires in May 2018.
Top 5 Books for Teaching Shakespeare to Children and Young People
These days Shakespeare can be taught to children and young people in very exciting and active ways - and there
What Are Drama Games?
Children's natural tendency towards make-believe play can be utilised at school through structured play and drama.
What Are You Doing?
Quick thinking and action is essential in this funny mime and spoken language drama game.
Whoosh! Bringing Stories Alive through Drama
An interactive technique in which participants become characters and objects in a story as it is told.
Why Teach Drama to Primary School Children?
Children's natural tendency towards make-believe play can be utilised at school through structured play and drama.
