Review:
'Martin Lewis and John Rainer's book is an effective, practical set of projects for teachers suitable for key stage 3/4. This step-by-step guide successfully develops students' understanding of theatrical forms and processes through the "practical classroom tradition of drama teaching"...It offers a wealth of material, which has the potential to engage pupils with a range of abilities...This publication will prove invaluable in any drama classroom.' - Karen Wilson, TES
Table of contents:
Part 1. Introduction and Rationale:-Introduction-and classroom drama and theatre --a manifesto--Rationale and assessment- Part 2. Teaching Units:-Introduction to the Teaching Units- 1. Urban Legends- 2. Dilemmas- 3. Displaced People- 4. Next Stop High School- 5. Lilliput- 6. The White Rose- 7. The Mysteries- 8. Toodyay Letters
Rainer and Lewis present a series of new, exciting and challenging practical units for teaching drama in the modern classroom. The tried-and-tested units of work in this book are placed in the context of current ideas about classroom practice. The authors present a new model of how teachers can draw together the various methodologies of process drama and traditional theatre teaching.
The flexible content makes the book suitable for specialist and non-specialist drama teachers. Newly trained teachers, student teachers and those new to drama will feel supported by the full, detailed layout. Experienced teachers will find the main benefit of the book as a springboard into their own drama teaching around the themes and topics given, and as a means of clarifying theoretical concepts.
Presenting a series of exciting and challenging practical units for teaching drama in the modern classroom, the authors present a new model of how teachers can draw together the various methodologies of process drama and traditional theatre teaching.
'Martin Lewis and John Rainer's book is an effective, practical set of projects for teachers suitable for key stage 3/4. This step-by-step guide successfully develops students' understanding of theatrical forms and processes through the "practical classroom tradition of drama teaching"...It offers a wealth of material, which has the potential to engage pupils with a range of abilities...This publication will prove invaluable in any drama classroom.' - Karen Wilson, TES
Table of contents:
Part 1. Introduction and Rationale:-Introduction-and classroom drama and theatre --a manifesto--Rationale and assessment- Part 2. Teaching Units:-Introduction to the Teaching Units- 1. Urban Legends- 2. Dilemmas- 3. Displaced People- 4. Next Stop High School- 5. Lilliput- 6. The White Rose- 7. The Mysteries- 8. Toodyay Letters
Rainer and Lewis present a series of new, exciting and challenging practical units for teaching drama in the modern classroom. The tried-and-tested units of work in this book are placed in the context of current ideas about classroom practice. The authors present a new model of how teachers can draw together the various methodologies of process drama and traditional theatre teaching.
The flexible content makes the book suitable for specialist and non-specialist drama teachers. Newly trained teachers, student teachers and those new to drama will feel supported by the full, detailed layout. Experienced teachers will find the main benefit of the book as a springboard into their own drama teaching around the themes and topics given, and as a means of clarifying theoretical concepts.
Presenting a series of exciting and challenging practical units for teaching drama in the modern classroom, the authors present a new model of how teachers can draw together the various methodologies of process drama and traditional theatre teaching.