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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.

Use this warm-up sequence with your students as they prepare for class. The teacher or student leader leads the sequence by calling out the name of the exercise.

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

Use these scenes in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and any other way you can imagine. Each scene comes from a published play (the complete play can be found on at theatrefolk.com) and is FREE for you to print, copy, and distribute. But wait there’s more! Each scene comes with: • Close Reading Questions • Staging Suggestions • Character Development 30 scenes in total within this eBook!

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.