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A high school theatre teacher's survival guide / Raina S. Ames.
Van Pelt Library PN2078.U6 A43 2005
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Van Pelt Library PN2078.U6 A43 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ames, Raina S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
- Theater.
- Theater--Study and teaching (Secondary).
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 186 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Summary:
- 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.
- With an eye both on the classroom and the rehearsal room, A High School Theatre Teacher's Survival Guide will be a welcome aid to high school teachers wherever theatre is taught.
- Contents:
- Curricular high school theatre
- Developing a high school theatre curriculum
- Discipline when dealing with students
- Curricula, texts
- Parent relationships
- Administrator relationships
- Extracurricular high school theatre, building an after school program
- Extracurricular program responsibilities and the value of saying "no"
- Scheduling and time management: inherent problems
- Casting issues
- Discipline and ethical issues
- Overview: maintaining excellence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0878302018
- 0878302026
- 0415975980
- 0415975999
- OCLC:
- 57731005
- Publisher Number:
- 9780878302017
- 9780878302024
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