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Assessment Articles for Drama Teachers

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Curriculum & Lesson Planning

Playing to Your Students’ Strengths

Drama teachers understand that we must plan our curriculum around the standards established by school boards, administrators, and other leadership. But whenever possible, it’s wonderful to...
Games & Exercises

Post-Exercise Exercise: Rate Yourself

One of the five categories of social and emotional learning is self-awareness. For students, part of being self-aware includes being able to identify their own levels of effort in exercises, games,...
Games & Exercises

Exercise: Effective Peer Feedback

Do your students know how to give effective peer feedback? If not, they may not know what that actually looks like. If they don’t know what effective peer feedback is, how can they benefit from...
Classroom Management

Inclusion in the Drama Classroom: Assessing Your Space

In education, inclusion refers to students with disabilities or special needs (whether their needs are medical, mental, physical, or psychological) spending most or all of their class time with...
Acting Technique

Can You Hear Me Now? A Peer-Led Volume Exercise

Isn’t it funny how some students are loud and enthusiastic during break time, but once they’re onstage, their voices seem to disappear? No, you haven’t lost your hearing – it’s one of the many...
Curriculum & Lesson Planning

How Do You Measure Success in the Drama Classroom?

Success in the drama classroom can be a challenging thing to measure. Not all students who take drama want to go on to become professional performers or technicians. Many students take drama simply...
Classroom Management

Classroom Communication: The Exit Slip

Is what you say in the classroom hitting home? Communication is a two way street. It’s not just about sending information out into the world, there’s a receiving aspect as well. Give and take. If...
Directing & Production

How to Write a Play Review

We’ve all seen those reviews. The ones that rip the theatre production up one side and down the other. They criticize the scenery and the script. They suggest that the leads take up basket weaving,...
Games & Exercises

Monologue Evaluation Exercise

What makes a good monologue? What criteria do you give to your students? Before students start writing their own monologue, it’s important for them to be able to identify and assess the elements of...
Curriculum & Lesson Planning

Student Self Assessment

Not only is it important for students to reflect on and evaluate the work of others, they also need to build self evaluation skills. But self assessment can be tricky. It takes a lot of practice to...