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Resources include learning about rubrics, how to create, and how to adapt a rubric.

The purpose of this resource is to offer opportunities through discussion, exercises, activities, unit add-ons, research links, and lesson plans to visibly support LGBTQ+ students in your classroom.

This resources includes ideas and activities to address issues when the cast is struggling, or passion and commitment start to falter.

Gai Jones, long time theatre educator, a member of many educational theatre associations, and an advocate of theatre competitions with sound educational theatre values, has developed this resource. Competitions are opportunities for students to succeed. Competitions encourage students to work toward a standard and goals. Evaluation can take the form of both formative and summative assessments. Competitions provide learning beyond the classroom as students are exposed to many types of performances and take part in receiving evaluations. This resource was created to help drama teachers consider these goals when taking students to competition (or not): • Celebrating growth and student success. • Learning how to evaluate judges’ comments. • Helping students develop strategies for competition stress. • Providing learning experiences beyond the classroom.

A description of activities to do with students over video-conferencing.

In this toolkit you will find experiences to foster creativity without the stress of performance. There’s no product or assessments. The important thing is engagement in a safe environment. The overview provides a full list of resources in the toolkit.

Project and performance assessment ideas.

If you are staging a comedy or a comedic scene, then you need to provide opportunities for your cast to play and laugh together at the beginning of rehearsals to encourage a spirit of light-hearted exploration and discovery. This resources helps you to adapt well-known activities to meet your needs, depending on the type of comedy you need to explore.

The second step on the empathetic journey is forming a link with others. Students take on activities where they have to work together and connect with others.

All the tools you'll need before production, from audition to casting, to start-up with your personnel.

Use this exercise in the early days of rehearsal or even as part of your audition process. It allows students to get into the physical side of a character without having to worry about hitting the “thees” and “thous.” This works well with any Shakespeare play.

The last tool is evaluation. But it’s not having other people critique what the student-director has done, rather it’s choosing a method of self-evaluation.

This packet includes an introduction for the teacher, and cover sheet for the student, to assign the Playwriting Part One packet for at-home distance learning, without technology.

What do you do when you have to be unexpectedly absent from class? DTA members to the rescue with their ideas.

In this series, we talk to teachers about their best programs, projects and plans, and then we share them with you so you can bring them into your classroom. Today we're talking to Lea Marshall and her Pajama Drama fundraising activity.

This resource offers guidance on working with your students to create an anti-slur policy. Included are two additional resources - Start With One Thing, and Social Awareness documents.

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Jo, May, Helen. (all 16) Genre: Drama

Posters, tips, and rules to follow during class presentations and productions.

An Analysis and Exercise guide to Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Breathing exercises for student actors.