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Poster for the classroom outlining the ways in which drama can benefit students outside the classroom.

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

These resources will help you set up your classroom for the first time.

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.

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.