A High School Theatre Teacher's Survival Guide

High school theatre programs are vigorous and growing. But theatre teachers - often drawn from English, speech, or other departments - don't always get all the training, and help, they need to be effective. For them, as well as for the seasoned teaching veteran, Raina Ames provides an indispensable companion. A High School Theatre Teacher's Survival Guide is a handy reference for high school theatre teachers covering both curricular and extracurricular problems - everything...
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High school theatre programs are vigorous and growing. But theatre teachers - often drawn from English, speech, or other departments - don't always get all the training, and help, they need to be effective. For them, as well as for the seasoned teaching veteran, Raina Ames provides an indispensable companion. A High School Theatre Teacher's Survival Guide is a handy reference for high school theatre teachers covering both curricular and extracurricular problems - everything from how to craft a syllabus for a theatre class to what to say to parents about a student's participation in a school play. In ten concise chapters, Raina Ames lays out a range of issues and situations, and offers practical suggestions for handling them professionally and humanely. The Guide fields specific questions about structuring classes, provides the text of overheads or PowerPoint presentations for classroom instruction, and makes useful suggestions - such as a 'contract' between the student and the theatre program - for building students' confidence and sense of responsibility within the group effort.