Getting the Buggers into Drama A Practical Guide to Teaching Drama [Paperback]

Getting the Buggers into Drama featured in Junior Education Plus' 2009 '10 of the best drama resources'!

This wonderfully accessible and practical guide provides a range of effective strategies for teaching drama. Written with her usual practicality, humour and optimism, Sue Cowley demonstrates how drama can make lessons across the curriculum more interesting and engaging. This fascinating guide is aimed both at the specialist drama teacher and at those who are interested in using drama to help them deliver other areas of the curriculum. It will also be particularly helpful to staff at primary level who have found themselves lumbered with putting on the school play !

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Introduction

1 Teaching drama

Drama in the curriculum

The benefits of drama

Common pitfalls for drama teachers

Drama across the curriculum

Structuring drama lessons

Classroom management for drama

Drama spaces

2 Ways of working

Individual focus

Warm ups

Trust games

Pair work

Small group work

Improvisation

Freeze frames

Hot seating

Judgement chair

Thought tracking

Conscience alley / Thought tunnel

The role of the expert

Whole class improvisation

Teacher in role

Meetings

Tag improvisation

3 Building drama skills

Concentration

Focus exercises

Cooperation

Cooperation exercises

Confidence

Confidence boosting exercises

4 Warm ups and cool downs

Why warm up?

Physical warm ups

Vocal warm ups

Why cool down?

Cool down exercises

5 Aspects of drama

Inspiration

Storytelling

Props

Costume

Setting - place and time

Creating atmosphere

Using contrasts

Selecting material