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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!

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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.

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Set of 12 Posters

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Poster Set of 12

Based on the quotes from the 2024-2025 DTA School Year Calendar, a set of 12 posters with quotes by Steven Stack, from a range of the PD courses he instructs in the Drama Teacher Academy.

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00 - New Drama Teacher Toolkit

The New Drama Teacher toolkit has links and resources to help you with your first year in the drama classroom.

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Methods of Teaching Theatre: A Teacher Toolkit

There are a lot of challenges that come in the first few years of teaching, especially for new theatre teachers, including non-traditional teaching spaces, entire classes of students who have no interest in theatre, a lack of a standard curriculum, and creating objective assessments for subjective materials, just to name a few. This book will help you anticipate the preparations you will need to address before a student ever walks into your classroom and the kind of philosophical questions you need to ask, and answer, as you begin your teaching career. This toolkit examines four fundamental building blocks of teaching: Classroom Setup, Classroom Management, Lesson Planning, and Assessment. It also provides you with tools and activities that will help you integrate these fundamentals into a drama classroom. If you are a new teacher, or are still in your teacher training, these tools will provide you with a lot of supplemental, practical information that will help you prepare for your first few years of teaching.

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20 Classroom Rules

20 Classroom Rules poster for the drama classroom.

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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

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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