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This text uses practical strategies and lesson ideas to show teachers how to help students progress. It also contains a section on using drama effectively to improve students' literacy.
Written for practicing and trainee English and Drama specialists, this text clarifies what constitutes useful knowledge about spoken English and how pupils aged 11-16 can develop their skills in speaking and listening through the use of drama.
This guide for anyone learning to teach drama contains case studies and practical examples. It covers such issues as how to apply to become a drama teacher and how to develop one's career in school.
The GCSE Drama Coursebook is firmly based on practical explorations of how to make, perform and respond to drama. The resources used to stimulate drama are exciting and varied, ranging from photo-love stories and poems to fine art and contemporary plays.
Through reflecting on their own developing practice, the contributors recount what the students and themselves have learnt, passing it on in a way which will encourage other teachers to try out ideas of their own.The book considers these practical accounts in a broader educational context and discusses the contribution that drama can make to the whole curriculum.Written by experienced authors who have been teaching young people with special needs for many years.Many teachers new to special education sense that the active, physical aspects of drama may be an invaluable contribution to their classes. This book provides with an insight into a wide range of techniques and ideas upon which to draw for practical classroom work
What can society learn about disability through the way it is portrayed in TV, films and plays? This insightful and accessible text explores and analyses the way disability is portrayed in drama, and how that portrayal may be interpreted by young audiences. Investigating how disabilities have been represented on stage in the past, this book discusses what may be inferred from plays which feature disabled characters through a variety of critical approaches. In addition to the theoretical analysis of disability in dramatic literature, the book includes two previously unpublished playscripts, both of which have been performed by secondary school aged students and which focus on issues of disabi...
Offers drama schemes teeming with opportunities for developing writing skills in students aged 7-16.
Mollie and Ian are hot for each other. Stueey can be a real bright spark. Mr Butcher's comments have inflamed Shuttle. All in all it's combustible material but when you play with fire it can be more than your fingers that get burnt. Arson About is a theatrical powder keg which crackles with wit and moves along with a scroching pace. But in this play by Mark Wheeller the cost of 'arson about' becomes all too clear. SuperScripts are tried and tested plays that will appeal to 11 - 16 year olds. Mostly written by professional playwrights and performed in public to popular acclaim, these plays are ideal for the English classroom and drama studio and are accompanied by an extensive range of original activities.
Grade level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, e, i, s, t.
This book is an edited collection of articles by leading educationalists and teacher educators on the place of talk in the primary curriculum. Each chapter reflects on theoretical aspects of oracy translated into manageable practice.