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Resources for Using Drama in Your Classroom
Hungry to bring the magic of theatre into your own classroom? This is your starter kit.
Whether you’re just getting your feet wet or already experimenting with arts integration, these resources will give you the tools, inspiration, and confidence to infuse drama into your teaching. From hands-on lesson plans to practical guides and performance-based strategies, each selection is designed to help you stir creativity, spark engagement, and support student learning across subjects.
DRAMA-BASED INSTRUCTION
University of Texas at Austin’s amazingly useful website full of lesson plans, resources, and videos.
STRUCTURING DRAMA WORK 2ND EDITION
By Jonothan Neelands and Tony Goode
A practical handbook for drama teachers and lecturers, youth leaders, theatre workers and anyone engaged in drama activity with people of all ages.
DRAMA & EDUCATION
Performance Methodologies for Teaching and Learning
By Manon van de Water and Mary McAvoy, Kristin Hunt
Drama and Education provides a practical, comprehensive guide to drama as a tool for teaching and learning. It is among the first practical drama and performance textbooks that address brain-based, neuroscientific research, making the argument that creativity is necessary in our lives, that embodied learning is natural and essential, and that contextual learning helps us find our place in society in relationship to other peoples and cultures.
TRANSFORMING TEACHING & LEARNING WITH ACTIVE & DRAMATIC APPROACHES
Engaging Students Across the Curriculum 1st Edition
By Brian Edmiston
This text for prospective and practicing teachers introduces engaging, innovative pedagogy for putting active and dramatic approaches to learning and teaching into action. Written in an accessible, conversational, and refreshingly honest style by a teacher and professor with over 30 years’ experience, it features real examples of preschool, elementary, middle, and high school teachers working in actual classrooms in diverse settings.
DRAMA OF COLOR
Improvisation with Multiethnic Folklore 1st Edition
By Johnny Saldana
Drama of Color is a book for teachers who wish to use folk literature and informal classroom drama to promote multiethnic awareness among elementary students.
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