Facebook Pixel

Search the Drama Teacher Academy

Displaying items 2101-2120 of 2385 in total

Planning an IB Theatre Course

The DTA curriculum, units, and professional development courses can be used to support the IB teacher in MYP, IB-Prep Class, grade 11 or DP Year 1 as they prepare students to engage in the assessment objectives of inquiring, developing, presenting, and evaluating. The materials in the DTA are not authorized by IB; however, they will give you the ability to guide students to think creatively, actively, and critically as theatre-makers and strengthen the skills necessary for students to successfully complete the Year 2 assessment tasks. The purpose of this document is to give you IB direction, vocabulary, and extensions to refer to when reviewing DTA material.

School Year Calendar 2025-2026

Inspirational quotes for a new school year, with the theme of "Joy"! Printable calendar to customize for any school year.
Attachments

New Drama Teacher Toolkit

In this toolkit you’ll find exercises, activities, and information that will help you get you through your first days, build your classroom management skills, and articulate the importance of your program.

Emergency Lesson Plans eBook

You need Emergency Lesson Plans. The unexpected comes up all the time. This Emergency Lesson Plan Collection (30 lessons) will address all of your concerns and take into account all of your sub’s questions. Every Emergency Lesson Plan includes substitute instructions, handouts, and assessment suggestions.

Improv Warm Up Games

This resource has a list and description of six different warm-up games, great for improv groups or any theatre class.

Set of 12 Posters - Joy Theme

From the 2025-2026 School Year Calendar, a set of 12 posters with 'Joy' as the main theme. Use in your drama classroom however you wish!

Class Routines - Warm-up Sequence

Use this warm-up sequence with your students as they prepare for class. The teacher or student leader leads the sequence by calling out the name of the exercise.

levels of understanding mountain top poster

Contributed by Lea Marshall

this is a poster (i had it printed as an engineer print. so HUGE.) i created for my classroom wall. i use it for students to assess their learning as they climb the mountain of learning up to the mountain top level of creativity!!! it also helps students

Semester Long Plan for Physicality in Fables

Contributed by Lindsay Johnson

This is a rough semester outline for a semester designed around using physicality to bring animal / object characters to life in fable adaptations. Many of the ideas and lessons are pulled from the DTA site, especially the mask course. There are rubrics,

Semester Long Plan for Improv, Scene Work, and Theater of the Oppressed

Contributed by Lindsay Johnson

This is a semester long plan for a 7th-8th grade Drama Class. It includes many materials from the DTA site, especially from the Improv course. It begins with ensemble and improv, moves to scene work, and ends with some Boal exercises and Forum Theater fro

Performance Rubric and Student Critique

Contributed by Lindsay Johnson

Here is an example of a Performance Rubric I use in my classroom to grade Performance Assessments (this one is grading a partner performance of an open scene, but I use the same basic format for all my Performance Assessments, just swapping out the rubric

Theatre History Unit

Contributed by Claire Docherty

This unit allows flexibility in choosing theatre styles throughout history to explore. This unit was created for grade 11 Drama within the Ontario Curriculum. Please feel free to adapt this work.

Comprehensive Production Budget

Contributed by SerenaRae Stein

Easily track your expenses for your show or year! This spread sheet is set up so that each area (costumes, make-up, sets, props, tech) has their own sheet and a grand master so you can easily see your expense totals as well as projected revenue.

Sample Rehearsal Checklist (Objective / Relationship Work)

Contributed by Lindsay Johnson

I find that my middle school students really struggle with unstructured rehearsal time. These graded checklists help me make sure that work is getting done and keep me circulating and checking in with each group!

Sample Rehearsal Checklist (Character Work with Student Directors)

Contributed by Lindsay Johnson

Here's another example of a rehearsal checklist to use with middle schoolers. This one involves student directed partner scenes, with focus on character movement.

Simple Written Assignment Rubric

Contributed by Christa Vogt

Here is the SIMPLEST of the three rubrics I created to use for my typical daily short writing assignments. This one is for the beginner class daily prompt. It is how I start class, and I call it the "Lights Up!" assignment. It is a simple and effective way to get them geared up for the day's lesson/topic. They get a half sheet of scrap paper and 10 minutes to respond to a prompt of some kind: a quote, question, paragraph, video, or picture. The 3 simple rubrics I am sharing here have taken the place of the old-school Check Plus, Check, and Check Minus type of grading. And as you can see, I can grade things fairly quickly using this.

Simple Written Reflection Assignment Rubric

Contributed by Christa Vogt

Here is the second of the three rubrics I created to use for my typical daily short writing assignments. This one is for a more in depth writing/response class daily prompt. They may have 10-15 minutes for this one to respond to a prompt of some kind: a quote, question, paragraph, video, or picture. The 3 simple rubrics I am sharing here have taken the place of the old-school Check Plus, Check, and Check Minus type of grading. And as you can see, I can grade things fairly quickly using this.

Written Reflection Rubric

Contributed by Christa Vogt

Here is the third of the three rubrics I created to use for my typical writing assignments. This one is for the more in-depth reflection response and the student have much more time to complete it that the 10 minutes or so of the other ones I shared. It still allows me to grade things fairly quickly using this!

Production Team Application

Contributed by Christa Vogt

By using an application, I have found it helps bring forward only those who are serious about the commitment, since they have to take the time to fill out an application! You can simply adjust the "available positions" as you need per production. I do not accept late applications, and like with auditions, unfortunately not everyone is guaranteed a position on any given show.

Costume Design Project rubric

Contributed by Christa Vogt

This rubric works for the end of a Costume Design and Construction unit. By looking at the criteria, you can see where the unit takes the students from start to finish.