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Help! I have teacher's block! The teachers at my school have been instructed by administration to come up with 35-minute Earth Day-related lesson plans for our subject areas to teach tomorrow. Honestly, my plan was to play theatre games outside (I know, weak), but Michigan weather is not planning ...

When I have classes like that I generally break them up into smaller project groups. How about a "scene festival" where students come up with their own scripts? I've done that a couple of times, where classes wrote a set of scenes based on songs, or stories written my children on our other grades... ...

Anyone else have to share their classroom with another subject? My space is shared with choir, so there are additional challenges associated with that.... Mostly getting the choirs to stack their chairs after class! ------------------------------ Theresa Weiler Speech and Drama Teacher, Head of Forensics, ...

Question for all of you, particularly those of you involved in primary and middle school education. Do you refer to your class as "Theater" or "Drama?" What do you see as the distinction? I have noticed that teachers of younger students tend to use the term "Drama," as do teachers in the U.K., while ...

Hello all! I have been charged with designing three new middle school speech and drama classes in a hurry. For the past ten years I have enjoyed doing it all from scratch... Lesson plans, worksheets, rubrics, the works... But now, although I have the enthusiasm, I just don't have the time! What ...

I am at a small (less than 400 students) private middle school, and we do a year-round rotating eight-block schedule. 70 minute classes, 35 minute lunches, 7 minutes passing, and a "FLEX" period every day that can be a club, advisory, study hall, or recess period. If you're interested, PM me your e mail ...