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Poster for the classroom: You Are In Control.

Poster for the classroom: Everyone Wants You to Succeed

Charts and checklists to get your classroom organized, from seating charts to supply lists.

Handouts to help you establish procedures, including passes, participation grades, rules and boundaries.

Ways to establish positive incentives in your classroom. Rewards, class cash, and tracking charts.

Ideas and tools to manage attention, volume, and group work in the classroom.

Tools for assessment in the drama classroom, including performance and written assessments.

Tools for addressing discipline issues, including conversations, reflections, and guidelines.

Posters, tips, and rules to follow during class presentations and productions.

Masterclass is a series of one-on-one interviews with experts, creators and innovators in the world of Theatre that you can study in-depth, or share with your classes. Think of this series as 'Inside the Actor's Studio' for Drama Teachers. In this masterclass, Matt Webster talks to to Reay Kaplan Maxwell, an actress and professional puppeteer. This discussion focuses on her experience as a professional puppeteer.

In this toolkit you will find experiences to foster creativity without the stress of performance. There’s no product or assessments. The important thing is engagement in a safe environment. The overview provides a full list of resources in the toolkit.

This resources describes a successful creative classroom, including procedures and norm setting, and also includes additional resources to encourage creativity: self-reflection sentence starters, brainstorming, bring on the silly, how do you encourage creativity, questions for creative norm setting and different ways to create groups.

A handout with quotes to share with your students to illicit response - all on the subject of creativity.

A series of reflections for both teachers and students, all related to creativity and the creative process.

A handout that includes a list and description of experiences you can introduce in the classroom, to increase student creativity.

A series of activities to introduce in the drama classroom with large groups, that encourage creativity.

A series of activities to use with small groups in the drama classroom, to encourage creativity.

A series of activities for students to try as individuals, to encourage creativity.

A series of experiences listed in a specific order, to build skill in creativity with groups of students.

A series of vocal experiences to use with students in the drama classroom, focused on encouraging creativity.