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

Recorded during the DTA Virtual Conference in July 2019, this is a Masterclass with Karen Loftus focused on student leadership.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Breathing exercises for student actors.

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

Sometimes all students need is a little push. Give students one of these self reflection sentence starters to get them going. You'll be amazed at what they write next.

An Analysis and Activities Guide on A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Use this Guide in conjunction with classroom study of the play.