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Links to DTA curriculum for a beginning drama teacher.

Resources to develop your classroom management skills.

Resources to help you establish drama classroom procedures.

Resources to help you choose plays for classroom study and performance.

Posters for your classroom, and scenes for classroom study.

Resources specifically for assessment in the drama classroom.

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.

This resource helps students and directors consider the style of a play: naturalism, epic theatre, classical/neoclassical, expressionism, surrealism, impressionism, romanticism, hyperrealism, and others.

Use this template to track a duo scene, including play details, character details, objectives, obstacles, tactics, and more.

Use this template to track a monologue, including play details, character details, objectives, obstacles, tactics, and more.

A poster for the drama classroom 'No Drama Llamas'. We are an ensemble. Diva behaviour will not be tolerated. We work as one.

Are you in a district or area that has decided against using participation marks? Some teachers are moving instead to using “skills practice.” For example, instead of a participation mark for group work, identify the skills you’re looking for when students work in groups – and give a mark for when students are actively practicing those skills. This template shows you how to build a chart you can use to assess skills practice.

A one-sheet to help students understand the difference between a prop and a costume piece.

The overview introduces Story Theatre, and outlines the 13 sections of the toolkit.

The first step in dramatizing a story for story theatre is to choose which stories you want to adapt. In order to narrow our choices, we’re going to look at fables, fairy tales, myths from around the world (not just the ones from ancient Greece), picture books and chapter books.

Once you have chosen the story or stories you want to present, there’s a process to follow in order to adapt a story into a script, outlined in this resource.

This resource introduces the concept and role of the narrator in Story Theatre, and outlines the different options: omnipotent, character, external/internal narration.

This section will assemble the concepts that have been presented so far to build a simple performance on the stage. This style of story theatre is called stories on stools and it is at the same time deceivingly simple and astonishingly creative.

There are a number of different ways to present dialogue – from simple to complex – and combine those dialogue forms with a variety of staging styles. These different pairings will give you an assortment of options to use when you’re deciding how you want to stage your stories.