Items tagged "Popular"
3 Courses, 6 Units, 2 Lesson Plans, 6 Resources, and 6 PLCs tagged "Popular" for Drama Teachers.
Courses
PD COURSE
From Audition to Curtain Call: Directing Youth Theatre
by Steven Stack
Directing youth theatre can be one of the most thrilling, rewarding, and exhausting jobs there is – because it’s not just about staging a play. It’s about creating an environment that fosters hard work, dedication, trust, and the willingness to take chances, to “play without fear.”
As a writer/teacher/director of youth theatre for over 15 years, I have developed tools and strategies that enable my students and me to focus on the process of creating theatre while fostering an environment that leads to creative freedom and a cohesive groups that doesn't act as individual “stars,” but as a community of one.
In this course, I will share with you these tips and strategies, along with the ways to implement them in your theatre environment.
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PD COURSE
Concept-Based Design for the Theatre Teacher
by Matt Webster
Concept-Based Design is a method of design that allows the director and production team to create a unified world based on the ideas, perceptions and images extracted from an in-depth analysis of the play. Matt Webster designed this course for theatre teachers in a typical school setting with limited budgets, space and materials to use towards the design of their shows. Many theatre teachers feel most unsure about their design and tech skills and Matt wanted to help those teachers look at design differently, and make designing a show a little less scary and a little more fun!
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Introduction to Stage Management Part One
by Karen Loftus
In this course, instructor Karen Loftus explores the responsibilities of a stage manager. You'll learn exercises that will help you demonstrate those responsibilities and the necessary skills of a stage manager to your students. You'll learn how to train your students to serve as stage managers for your school’s productions.
The course takes you through what a stage manager does prior to rehearsal and throughout the rehearsal and performance process to have a smooth-running backstage. It includes learning about the paperwork required, including prompt scripts, rehearsal preparations, notating blocking, and a stage manager’s kit and checklist to wrap it all together.
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Units
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Elizabethan Theatre
by Karen Loftus
How do you introduce students to Shakespeare? This unit introduces the Bard through life in Elizabethan England and the playwrights, players, and playhouses. It also explores how to approach unfamiliar words and context clues in Shakespeare’s texts.
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Lighting
by Josh Hatt
This is an introductory mini-unit to lighting that can be achieved whether or not you have a lighting system. Students will work toward being able to demonstrate their knowledge of lighting effectiveness.
The questions of the unit include: How can light affect a scene? How can lighting affect the audience? What is the mood of the scene? How does lighting play a part in creating mood? How can you use shadows onstage? How does color impact the scene?
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Unit Two: Improvisation Basics
by Lindsay Johnson
In this unit, students will learn, practice and apply three important rules of improv: accepting and building on offers, quick thinking, and strong offers. For each step, they will work with the Improvisation Rubric by both giving and receiving feedback. Students will also start to practice techniques to improve their vocal clarity. The unit culminates in a performance assessment in which students will play an improv game in front of an audience.
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Unit Three: Building Improvised Scenes
by Lindsay Johnson
Students will understand the basic building blocks of a scene: The Who (characters/ relationship), the Where (setting), and the What (conflict – objectives/tactics). They will learn how to use both verbal and nonverbal (pantomime) clues to communicate these scene details to an audience. They will continue to work on voice clarity, while also learning to open their body to an audience. The unit culminates in a performance assessment in which students work in pairs to improvise a scene.
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Unit Four: Intro to Scripted Scenes
by Lindsay Johnson
Students will be introduced to the most basic of scripts: the contentless/open scene script. They will use their knowledge of character/relationships, setting, objective, and tactics to add content to a contentless scene. Students will also learn the basics of set design and blocking, and will begin using voice expression to communicate clearer characters. The unit culminates in a performance assessment in which students will work in pairs to add content to and perform a contentless scene.
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Unit Eight: Theatre of the Oppressed
by Lindsay Johnson
Students will have a chance to merge their understanding of scene elements with their improvisation skills in this final unit based on Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. Theatre of the Oppressed is a style of theatre specifically created to highlight the injustices of power and oppression in society and to problem-solve ways to bring about change.
Starting with image theatre techniques to identify issues of power and oppression, students will then use forum theatre to create scenarios of oppression taken from their own lives and improvise realistic solutions.
The unit culminates in a performance in which students participate as both actors in a scene they create themselves and spect-actors in scenes created by their peers.
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Lesson Plans
LESSON PLAN
00 - Emergency Lesson Plans Ebook
by Lindsay Price
You need Emergency Lesson Plans. The unexpected comes up all the time.
This Emergency Lesson Plan Collection (30 lessons) will address all of your concerns and take into account all of your sub’s questions. Every Emergency Lesson Plan includes substitute instructions, handouts, and assessment suggestions.
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LESSON PLAN
01 - Emergency Lesson Plans: Middle School Drama Class Task Sheets
by Drama Teacher Academy
This ebook contains 15 different task sheets, designed to be used as Emergency Lesson Plans for middle school students.
A task sheet is a sheet that provides students with a task to complete. Each task will have an itemized list of steps. All tasks are written so they can be completed individually and independently using pen and paper. If you are a computer or laptop one-to-one school, simply adapt any substitute instruction to reflect that students will work digitally and submit online. Emergency Lesson Plans: Middle School Drama Class Task Sheets includes Single-Task Sheets, meaning all the instructions have a single-subject focus (monologues, scene writing, theatre vocabulary).
Task Sheets come with additional handouts and worksheets to make it as straightforward as possible for substitutes to give information to students and for students to complete their
tasks.
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Resources
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00 - Scenes for Classroom Study eBook
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!
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RESOURCE
01 - Choosing Stories
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.
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13 - Story Theatre Scripts
These story theatre scripts are ready for performance. Each story includes at least one narrator, and each one can be adapted further to meet your needs.
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Emergency Lesson Plans eBook
You need Emergency Lesson Plans. The unexpected comes up all the time.
This Emergency Lesson Plan Collection (30 lessons) will address all of your concerns and take into account all of your sub’s questions. Every Emergency Lesson Plan includes substitute instructions, handouts, and assessment suggestions.
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RESOURCE
Tech Knowledge: Integrating Tech Throughout Your Rehearsal Process
This resource will help you integrate technical theatre and include your technical theatre team from Day 1 of your rehearsal process. This will help you have an easier experience throughout and reduce the stress of tech week!
In this resource, you will learn:
• How to prepare students to take on leadership and creative challenges in various technical
theatre roles.
• The importance of an artistic vision and budget.
• How to get your admin on board.
• How to prepare a rehearsal schedule that integrates your technical theatre teams.
• How to create a pre-show schedule to make sure everything is ready for show time.
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Student Tech Teams: Worksheets
If you have asked the question “what do my tech students do when I’m directing the show?” then these worksheets are for you. You can include your technical theatre team from day one by using these worksheets to have your students plan, find, organize, and execute the elements of technical theatre.
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PLCs
PLC
Devising
Hosted by Lindsay Price, Matt Webster, Amy Patel, Jessica Fagerstrom
You and your students want a good story and script, even if you have to write it yourselves! But what does that look like? Who's in control? How would that work? How exactly do you devise new work with students?
Join us in this PLC on Devising to learn the ins and outs of generating new works with your students.
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Student Leadership
Hosted by Matt Webster, Lindsay Price, Shelby Steege, Colin Oliver
Drama teachers often face a difficult dilemma: There are times when you need to be two or three places at once, and you need back up. But where can you turn for help? How about your class roster! Never underestimate the power of a dedicated student leader. By delegating duties and assigning responsibilities to your trusted students, you give yourself some breathing room, and you give them valuable leadership experience.
Join us for this PLC on Student Leadership and set up your back up.
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Distance Learning: Monologue Writing
Hosted by Matt Webster, Lindsay Price
Monologue writing is an activity that is easily adaptable for distance learning. It’s also something that students can do without technology. Join us for a walk through a "no internet necessary" monologue writing project with added video conferencing options.
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Assessment in the Drama Classroom
Hosted by Matt Webster, Lindsay Price, Claire Broome, Lindsay Johnson
A lot has changed in the classroom in the past few years, but one responsibility remains the same: You still need to assess your student’s work. Assessment has always been a challenge in Theatre classes, but these days there are more challenges than ever when it comes to grading your students and their work. So hop on to this PLC and join the conversation as we re-examine assessment in the Drama classroom.
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Celebrating Your Theatre Program
Hosted by Matt Webster, Lindsay Price, Christa Vogt, Lea Marshall
March is Theatre in our Schools month, and we think that is worth celebrating. Why, just look at some of the benefits a theatre program brings to a school and community - Improved test scores, community outreach, growing student self confidence, focused Social Emotional Learning and increasing empathy...and that's just the beginning! Theatre programs (and the people who run them) deserve to be celebrated for the valuable educational services they provide. So join us for this PLC as we celebrate all things Theatre!
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AI in the Drama Classroom
Hosted by Matt Webster, Lindsay Price, Jessica McGettrick, Elizabeth Holbrook
Artificial Intelligence is here. In the past few years it has found its way into almost every corner of modern life - including the classroom. However, important questions remain. Questions like: "Is there a place for AI in the classroom?" "Does that include the Drama classroom?" and "What does AI in the Drama classroom look like?"
These are just some of the questions we will tackle when you join us in this forward thinking PLC.
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