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Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute
Drama For Those Who Do Not Like
Or Understand Drama. This curriculum unit is being designed for a
specific group of students. These students have reading levels
ranging from the third grade to the twelfth grade. They will be
either juniors or seniors, with average or below average skills in
English; including reading, writing and speech.
"Act
Up!" Elementary Drama Lesson Plans
By Jane Dewey, Danville Schools,
Danville, KY
Ms. Dewey has been Director of
Arts Education since 2000 and an arts educator for over 20 years,
having worked with the Richmond Area Arts Council and the Fayette Co.
school district. She is an adjunct instructor at Centre College and
the facilitator of the Kentucky Coalition of Arts Educators, and a
peer consultant for the Kentucky Peer Advisory Network.
TeAchnology
Drama and Theatre Lesson Plans
For over a decade, TeAchnology
has been providing free and easy to use resources for teachers
dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of
students. We feature 46,000+ lesson plans. We are the online teacher
resource that is designed to help busy Kindergarten through High
School teachers.
ArtsEdge
Lessons for Elementary School
The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
We’re focused on ways to
support innovative teaching with the arts, and meet changing trends
in education and to accommodate the ever-evolving impact of
technology in our lives. Our collection of free digital resources has
been streamlined for easier browsing and upgraded to leverage best
practices in educational media and multimedia-supported instruction.
KET:
Welcome to Drama Toolkit
Kentucky Educational Television,
Lexington, KY
This Drama Toolkit provides K-12
teachers with high-quality teaching resources that bring the
excitement of the theater into the classroom. You’ll find lesson
plans, idea cards, glossaries, and many special features. Some of
these, such as Kentuckians in Theater, Tour of the Stage, and Will
Power, are designed for students as well as teachers.
Study.com:
World Literature Drama Lesson Plans
The World Literature: Drama
chapter of this course is designed to help you plan and teach about
the history and different elements of drama in your classroom. The
video lessons, quizzes and transcripts can easily be adapted to
provide your lesson plans with engaging and dynamic educational
content. Make planning your course easier by using our syllabus as a guide.
KinderArt:
Drama Exercises for Kids
KinderArt makes teaching art
easier for teachers, parents and artists with art lesson plans art
curriculum and tips for all ages. We began KinderArt.com in 1997
because at the time, we saw a real need for FREE art lesson plans
that parents and teachers could try with their students and children.
Soon after, YOU began sharing your ideas too. And so it continues
today&ldots; 20 years later!
TeachHub:
12 Fascinating Ways to Use Drama in the Curriculum
By: Loriana Romano, Lisa Papa,
and Elita Saulle.
Integrating drama helps children
in various ways. In this fantastic resource: ‘The Arts as
Meaning Makers’, written by Claudia E. Cornett and Katharine L.
Smithrim, there are 12 essential points that we strongly agree to be
important to consider.
Children's
Theatre Organizations
Groups
supporting arts and theatre for young audiences
Children’s
Theatre Foundation of America (CTFA)
CTFA is
committed to the values of diversity, equity and inclusion by
supporting theatre artists and organizations that share these values
working to address past and current injustices to groups that have
been historically disadvantaged and socially, politically, and
economically excluded.
American
Alliance for Theatre & Education (AATE)
AATE serves
and inspires a growing collective of theatre artists, educators, and
scholars committed to transforming young people and communities
through the theatre arts.
Association
for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
ATHE serves
as an intellectual and artistic center for producing new knowledge
about theatre and performance-related disciplines, linking with
theatres, and promoting access and equity.
International
Assoc. of Theatre for Children & Young People
ASSITEJ
unites theatres, organisations and individuals throughout the world
who make theatre for children and young people.
SmallSize.org
(Europe)
European
network for the diffusion of performing arts for early childhood,
with special focus on the diffusion of performing arts for children
between 0 and 6 years old.
Australian
Children's Theatre Foundation (ACTF, AU)
ACTF
supports delivery of arts-based programs into primary schools across
Victoria, plus subsidy opportunities for remote, regional and
disadvantaged schools and the commissioning of new works for young
people ages 6-11.
Performing
Arts and Young People in Aotearoa (PAYPA, NZ)
PAYPA is a
network of performing artists and organisations working for children
and young people in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Action
for Children’s Arts (ACA, UK)
ACA
campaigns for children across the UK to have access to the arts.
ACA considers it is essential that the voices of children should not
be excluded from the national conversation.
Youth
Theatre Journal (YTJ)
The journal
focuses on the dissemination of ideas relating to practical and
theoretical developments in the field of theatre and performance by,
with, and for children and youth and drama/theatre education.
National
Youth Theatre (NYT, UK)
NYT gives
young people the opportunity to learn as much about themselves and
how to relate to others, as they do about acting and technical theatre.
National
Youth Theatre Company (NYTC, NZ)
NYTC is New
Zealand's premiere all-access musical theatre training organisation -
bringing confidence and life skills to young people through ongoing
theatrical training and performance opportunities.
ArtsEdge:
K-12 Resources (AU)
ArtsEdge
facilitates relationships between the arts and Australian education
sectors and creates opportunities through partnership to encourage,
develop, and celebrate learning environments which spark creativity
amongst students and their school communities.
Drama
South Australia (DSA, AU)
DSA promotes
Drama in education as a valuable and valued part of education, as
well as encourages the study and development of Drama in education as
a teaching methodology and as a creative and expressive art form.
The
Puppetry Home Page
The Puppetry
Home Page is a free resource for the puppetry community and is
dedicated to helping people connect with the world of puppetry.
Funding
Programs for Theatre Artists & Educators
Lin
Wright Professional Teaching Grant
Supports the
work and professional development of an exemplary secondary school
teacher through the introduction of AATE’s national professional network.
The
Don and Elizabeth Doyle Fellowship
This award
is given to an outstanding graduate-level student of demonstrated
artistic ability in the area of Theatre for Youth.
The
Winifred Ward Scholarship
The tuition
award of $10,000 is given to a graduate student who has demonstrated
intellectual and artistic excellence in the area of child drama/theatre.
Theatre
for Young Audiences (TYA) Fellowships
TYA/USA
Fellowships are designed to offer dynamic opportunities for growth,
discovery and exchange to practitioners in the field of Theatre for
Young Audiences.
Children's
Theatre Scholarships (NZ)
New
Zealand's Court Theatre is offering scholarships for Maori and
Pasifka in performance, actng, drama, theatre, creatve writng,
improvisaton and story telling. Interested? Get in touch!
AATE
College/University/Research Experts List
These AATE
members are available for information and advice on their
specialties. Feel free to contact them with your questions. All
AATE members are welcome to join this list which is curated by the
College/University/Research Network.
Sally Bailey
Professor,
Drama Therapy / Theater
Kansas State
University, Manhattan, KS
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Drama Therapy, Playwriting, Creative Drama, Puppetry
Work
website: http://www.k-state.edu
Personal
website: http://www.dramatherapycentral.com
Katie Dawson
Ass't
Professor, Arts Integration and Teaching Artist Pedagogy and Practice
University
of Texas at Austin
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Arts Integration, Drama-Based Pedagogy and Practice,
Applied Drama/Theatre, Museum Theatre, Theatre-in-Education, Drama-in-Education,
Research Methods, Teaching Artist Pedagogy and Practice,
Professional Learning Models
Work
website: https://theatredance.utexas.edu/
Emily Freeman
Community
Engagement Director
Orlando
Repertory Theatre in partnership with University of Central Florida (UCF)
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Community-Based Work, Applied Theatre, and Playmaking
Work
website: http://www.orlandorep.com
Jennifer Katona
Director
Graduate Program in Educational Theatre
The City
College of New York
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Curriculum Development in the Arts, Educational
Policy, Directing and Choreography with Youth and Arts Integration
Work
website: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/edtheatre/
Linda Krakaur
Instructor/Project
Manager
University
of Maryland, College Park
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Drama in education, arts integration, arts and
equity, literacy, professional development, school partnerships,
international programs
Work
website: https://education.umd.edu/
Matt Omasta, Ph.D.
Director of
Theatre Education
Utah State University
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Theatre for Young Audiences, K-12 Theatre Education,
Drama Across the Curriculum
PROFESSIONAL
WEBSITE: http://www.mattomasta.com
Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
Assistant
Professor, Theatre Studies / Theatre Education
Univ of
Texas, Austin
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Culturally Responsive Theatre Education; Cultural,
Racial, Ethnic representation in TYA
Work
website: http://www.utexas.edu/finearts/tad/people/schroeder-arce-roxanne
Personal
website: http://www.roxannearce.com
Johanna Smith
Professor,
Theatre Education
California
State University, San Bernardino
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Puppetry, Improvisation, Creative Drama, Service
Learning in TYA
Work
website: http://theatre.csusb.edu/
Personal
website: http://www.professorjohanna.com
Elena Velasco
Graduate
Assistant and Instructor, Theater
Catholic
University of America, Washington, DC
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Directing, Choreography, Physical Theater, Musical
Theater, Improvisation, Creative Drama, Theater Outreach
Personal
website: http://www.elenavelasco.net
Amanda Wager
Assistant
Professor, TESOL
Lesley
University, Boston, MA
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Drama in Education, Applied Theatre, Popular Theatre,
ESL & Bilingual Education
Work
website: http://www.lesley.edu/graduate-school-of-education/home/
http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/amanda-wager/
Personal
website: http://lesley.academia.edu/AmandaCWager
James Zager
Head of VPA
Theatre & Arts Management
Carroll
University, Waukesha WI
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Directing, Playwriting, Devising
Work
website: http://www.carrollu.edu/programs/theaterarts/
Personal
website: http://www.jameszager.com
Books on
Creative Drama & Children's Theatre
Easily search for these books on
the Internet
Creative
Drama for the Classroom Teacher
Ruth Beall Heinig. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1993.
A college textbook for Creative Drama teachers.
Using straightforward language and clear descriptions of actual
lessons, this book will get you started really teaching Drama in the
classroom. Search
for this book...
Creative
Drama Resource Book
for Grades K-3
Ruth B. Heinig. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1987.
Real lessons direct from the classroom. The
focus here is on practice, not theory. You can immediately TEACH the
lessons and activities in this book. Very clear explanations and easy
reference. Search
for this book...
Creative
Drama Resource Book
for Grades 4-6
Ruth B. Heinig and Ruth M. Heinig.
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1987.
Real lessons direct from the classroom. The
focus here is on practice, not theory. You can immediately TEACH the
lessons and activities in this book. Very clear explanations and easy
reference. Search
for this book...
Drama
with Children
Geraldine Brain Siks. Harper and Row, 1983.
Another college textbook for Creative Drama
teachers. A little old-fashioned, but very easy to follow, with lots
of practical lessons. Search
for this book...
Improvisations
in Creative Drama
Betty Keller. Meriwether Publishing Ltd., 1987.
A collection of Creative Drama lessons, enough
for at least a year's work. The focus is mainly Theatre training and
process-oriented work. If you're looking for ready-made lessons that
WORK, this book has them. Search
for this book...
Drama
Themes: A
Practical Guide for Teaching Drama
Larry Swartz. Heinemann Educational Books,
Inc., 1988.
An excellent text to help you construct Drama
lessons to support a wide variety of themes and curricular areas.
Includes actual, useable lessons. Its strength is how Swartz makes
Drama out of subject matter. Search
for this book...
Theatre
Games for Young Performers
Maria C. Novelly. Meriwether Publishing Ltd., 1985.
A collection of classic theatre games for
teens. All the activities are intended to train young actors in
performance technique. Lots of fun. Search
for this book...
Structuring
Drama Work: Available
Forms in Theatre and Drama
Jonothan Neelands. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
An absolutely information-packed book
discussing and contrasting conventions and approaches to the teaching
of drama. Contains lots of useful activities-mostly appropriate for
older kids. Search
for this book...
Children's
Theater: A Paradigm, Primer and Resource
Kelly Eggers
and Walter Eggers. Scarecrow Press, 2010.
This work is
valuable for those wishing to know more about the importance and use
of theater for children, both educationally and socially.
Search
for this book...
Acting and Theatre
(An Usborne Introduction)
Cheryl
Evans, Lucy Smith. Usborne Publishing, 1992.
Providing an
introduction to theater, this work covers all aspects of the
theatrical world, both creative and technical, including acting, set
design, costumes, and more. Search
for this book...
Forum
Theatre for Children: Enhancing Social,
Emotional and Creative Development
Nick
Hammond. Stylus Publishing, 2015.
This
innovative book illustrates the vital role of drama for young
schoolchildren. A dynamic fusion of theatre and psychology, it
describes each step of the process of Forum Theatre. Search
for this book...
