The Theatre Classroom—Advanced Drama’s Management and Content

In my last blog I shared my beginning drama class’s “rules and regs.” Now I would like to share my advanced drama’s management and content. As 90% of the students had taken my beginning drama class and/or my English class (I used the same management for all my classes) I did not need to spell out the management in such great detail.  In retrospect, it might not have been such a bad idea to be a little clearer. See Advanced Drama Course Management and Content Sheet below.

When my advanced drama class primarily became a play production class, I was in seventh heaven.  It allowed me to create some interesting character exercises, which are touched on here and I will share in my coming blogs.  I loved teaching this advanced class — we even did some pretty amazing theatre, of course, some wasn’t!  In fact, I just got a call from a parent who hosted one of my A.F.S. advanced drama students (American Field Service, the way students from other countries apply to go to school for a year in the US) who has become a drama teacher/director in Germany. She is going overseas and wanted me to sign my book for Miriam as a present. The world is indeed a small place. Again I am reminded of why teaching is so special and I was so fortunate to have such good “kids.”