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Join Lindsay Price as she speaks to DTA member Carla-Jayne Samuelson, one of the winners of the DTA Travel Scholarship in 2018, about her experience at Ghost River Intensives in Alberta.

This the overview to the toolkit, which breaks down the process of learning how to direct into specific tools. Each tool comes with exercises, assignments, handouts, and Reflections.

This tool covers finding a script and directing proposal, the first, second, third, and fourth read.

This tool includes three parts: well of knowledge, leadership, and research, as well as activities to explore the tool of self.

The Tool of the Actor often puts the student-director in the role of the actor in order to fully understand how to direct them. The Actor's Purpose, the Audition Process, and Communication & Assisting are key tools in this section.

This section covers an overview of the rehearsal process and walks students through creating a rehearsal schedule/calendar.

The next tool is the Tool of Space. As student-directors work on staging their play in rehearsal, it’s more than moving actors and set pieces on and off. How do you use the space to its greatest theatrical potential?

Student-directors need to know how to communicate with designers. This section covers how directors can communicate efficiently, and how they can approach the design process when these tasks fall to them.

The last tool is evaluation. But it’s not having other people critique what the student-director has done, rather it’s choosing a method of self-evaluation.

Have students demonstrate their 21st century skills knowledge with these worksheets.

Have students demonstrate their close reading skills with these worksheets.

This toolkit is a guide to inclusion in the drama classroom, including strategies, activities, and tips for performance, along with classroom exercises to promote inclusion.

Your hosts: Matt Webster & Lindsay Price 00:00 Welcome 14:55 Keynote: Empathy in the Classroom (Steven Stack) 58:38 PLC: Empathy and Classroom Management (Steven Stack, Shelby Steege) 1:29:21 Acting 1 Warm-ups (Christa Vogt) 2:00:12 Masterclass: Cultivating Student Leaders: Strategies, Synergy and Soft Skills (Karen Loftus) 2:37:10 Creative Staging (Todd Espeland) 3:32:31 Masterclass: Inclusive Classroom (Kerry Hishon) 4:16:23 Acting 3 Warm-ups (Christa Vogt) 4:41:12 Viewpoints Workshop (Erin Carr) 6:01:00 Devising Workshop (Amy Pugh Patel) 6:36:27 Additional Warm-ups (Christa Vogt) 7:23:37 PLC: Building Your Community (Lea Marshall, Jess McGettrick)

Acting 1 Warm-Ups by Christa Vogt

Acting 3 Warm-ups with Christa Vogt

Additional warm-ups with Christa Vogt

Creative Staging with Todd Espeland

Creative staging with Todd Espeland

Join Lindsay Price as she speaks to DTA members Chris Piner and Cindi Macioce, two of the winners of the DTA Travel Scholarship in 2018, about their experiences at the Broadway Teachers Workshop in New York city.

Video on how to put our fires in your classroom, using the DTA course modules.