How To Teach Drama To Kids
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If you want to learn how to teach drama to kids, then get "How to Teach Drama To Kids" written by a person with real life experience teaching drama to children. This guide, “How to Teach Drama to Kids” will take someone unsure of the main principles of teaching theatre arts to various ages, through the basic categories and components principally considered to be the heart of the study of Drama. Whether you are a music or English teacher hired to teach a semester of Drama, or an actor commissioned to do a series of children’s workshops, this guide will take you through a stage-by-stage process including exercises for the under 10 age group, the pre-teens, and the high-school ages. The author adds her own tips for making particularly challenging games or exercises “work,” and presents her own hints for keeping your resources and equipment to an inexpensive and manageable budget. With chapters from the basics of “Movement,” “Voice,” “Improvisation,” “Role-Playing” and “Scene Work” to the more intricate additions of “Story-Telling,” “Puppetry” “Stage-Fighting” and “Chorus-Line Dancing Steps,” this guide is broken down so that you may choose to eliminate certain chapters from your planning or to add the author’s hints for extending an exercise to make it last longer and to be more enriching to the students. Click "Buy Now" to get it now!
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How To Teach Drama To Kids
Your Step-By-Step Guide To Teaching Drama To Kids
By HowExpert Press & Julie Johnson
Copyright 2016 http://www.HowExpert.com
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Table Of Contents
Introduction to this E-book
Chapter 1 – Movement Exercises and Tips
Chapter 2- Voice Exercises and Tips
Chapter 3- Improvisational Exercises and Tips
Chapter 4 – Story Telling and Early Characterization Exercises
Chapter 5- Puppetry Exercises and Tips
Chapter 6 – Early Stage Conflict and Fight Scenes
Chapter 7 – Clowning and Mask Exercises and Tips
Chapter 8 – Choreographed Steps and Simple Chorus Line Work
Chapter 9 – Scene Work and Skits
Glossary of Basic Theatre Terms Used in this Text
About the Expert
Recommended Resources
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Introduction To Teaching Drama To Young People
Though I’m a high school drama teacher now, years ago, when asked to lead my very first workshop, I was still in teacher’s college and the workshop was for 22 adults – some from an amateur Players
local, some senior citizens from a group called Sage Age Theater.
They requested a day-long affair, with a general theme, so therefore exercises in every aspect. How, I wondered, would I keep everyone busy and interested? How, though I’d been on stage for years myself, would I Teach these people what I knew?
Of course, now I look back fondly on that first-ever workshop .It had all gone so smoothly, everyone (even the hard-of-hearing seniors) listening intently as though I were MOSES passing on the Commandments, every student taking seriously each exercise I introduced, practicing each diligently, whether I was there hovering over them or elsewhere across the room.
I’ve never since then taught a drama workshop or lesson so text-book perfect,
and Neither Will You if you’re teaching under 20-year-olds.You’ll have no end of surprises, some amusing, some frustrating. You’ll have to think on your feet, be flexible, add exercises here, adjust them there, or eliminate some altogether.(You may have planned for hours for one particular favourite exercise of yours – but if it isn’t going to work with that group – Forget It. Lament later, but Do Not Try And Introduce It if your instinct tells you it just isn’t going to go over).
You’ll need to repeat instructions many, many times, demonstrate, either using yourself or another student, be patient if none of your corrections are implemented, and most of all you’ll have to remain calm while still appearing up-beat, motivated and inspired!
My first year of teaching was in an inner-city school in England, where I had 33-38 students in a class, and most classes were of children ages 10 to 12 who wanted nothing LESS than to take Drama. In the U.K. at this time, it was a mandatory course at these ages. No matter what I did that year, right from the standard sitting-on-the-floor in a theater circle
at the beginning of each lesson, students were climbing the curtains, hiding Behind the curtains, grabbing props and stabbing each other, wrestling on the floor, knocking over sets built for the senior classes, etc.(This was also before chocolate and soda pops were removed from the machines in the cafeterias!)
However, many years later, though not Considerably any different, my drama classes with children flow a little more smoothly due to the many tricks
I’ve discovered, mostly through trial and error. I will share those tricks here with you, as well as many of the exercises I’ve found or developed which work best for various ages – and with the simplest of props, equipment and etc.
This book is designed specifically for the teaching of Theater Arts to young people. Obviously, if you are teaching a workshop to adults or a mix of ages, many of these exercises can be adapted to be equally effective. Each chapter has exercises for:
•Group One, which I suggest as being 5 to 9 year olds
•Group Two, which could be 10 to 13 year olds
and
•Group Three, which should be the more mature 14 to 18 year-olds.
You do not necessarily need to follow the order I have set out here, or obviously, to try and do Every component (I have even suggested that you may want to leave out teaching Stage Fighting, Mime, and Clowning and Masks).However, I have tried to set these out in a progressive order that would best suit both a workshop situation, a winter session of evening classes once or twice a week, or an entire year of classes at school.(Obviously, you’d have to add exercises and projects to each unit if the latter were the case.)
I wish you luck as you embark upon our shared goal of keeping the performing arts alive and flourishing, by introducing the subject at an early age and instilling the joys and passion to our youth, who may then go on to do the same for other generations.
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Chapter 1: Movement Exercises And Tips
Introduction To Movement
To live is to breathe, to stretch, to move
To prance across wide open spaces
To gesture with fingers, hands, or arms
To spin dizzily on grassy green places
Movement is joy, or movement shows sorrow
Movement is how we express
On stage, it shows more than our lines or our faces
Much more than our stature or dress.
As discussed in the Movement Intro, above, this is one of the most freeing and potentially relaxing categories of Drama Lessons. Warm ups can include anything from Statues (a reminder of this old classic game is below), to Simon Says to some form of Follow the Leader Parade(preferably to a type of marching music)– even for Group 3, these can often work well.
Warm – Up #1: Statues
(For many other categories such as improv and characterization exercises, Statues can also work well, with some adjustments to the relevant section.)
Choose a buyer,
who goes out of the room. Take each of the remaining students firmly by the arm and swing them round and round until they are dizzy, then fling
them (not hard – lawsuits are always pending…!!!) into a position. They must stop and hold