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The third step on the empathetic journey is forming a link with your character. Students will work to link with characters who are quite different from them.

After forming a link with yourself, each other, and your character, the last two links in the empathetic journey are the audience and the outside world.

Students decide, design, and implement a culminating presentation that uses theatricality to share the concepts of empathy.

Use this monologue in your classroom for character study, monologue work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Character: Trina Genre: Dramedy

Use this monologue in your classroom for character study, monologue work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Character: Shrug Genre: Drama

A poster for your classroom that shows the visual progression from character to play.

Inspired by our members with inspirational quotes right from drama teachers in the DTA. There are 2 versions of the Drama Teacher School Year calendar. One is a monthly calendar with an inspirational quote and image per month; the second is a portrait-layout booklet version that can be customized to any school year.

If you’ve ever had the perfect idea for a drama assessment but didn’t know where to start, use this toolkit to help you create assessments specifically for the drama classroom.

These resources cover Formative vs. Summative assessment and Bloom's Taxonomy (resource and poster).

These resources cover the phases of assessment planning, end of unit assessment and samples, as well as Bloom's Taxonomy action words.

Handouts to help you create clear instructions and do's and don'ts.

A checklist to ensure your assessments are formatted in a clear and concise manner.

Project and performance assessment ideas.

A bibliography of sources for the assessment toolkit.

Poster for your drama classroom; quote from Keeley Hawes.

A poster for your drama classoom; quote from Ari'el Stachel.

A poster for the drama classroom; quote from Lindsay Mendez.

Join Lindsay Price as she speaks to DTA member Leslie Infalt, one of the winners of the DTA Travel Scholarship in 2017, about her experience at the Broadway Teachers Workshop in New York city.

This handout explains traditional dramatic structure and includes a visual guide.

Lindsay Price chats with Debb Adams about her experience at the Palmetto State Arts Education Arts Integration Conference in October 2018. Debb is one of the 2018 winners of the DTA Travel Scholarship.