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"!
Chapter 1: Planning and Teaching Drama; Chapter 2: Ways of Working in Drama; Chapter 3: Building Drama Skills; Chapter 4: Warm ups and Games; Chapter 5: Drama Techniques and Resources; Chapter 6: Role Play and Characterisation; Chapter 7: Dramatic Tension; Chapter 8: Advanced Drama Techniques; Chapter 9: Themes for Primary Drama; Chapter 10: Themes for Secondary Drama; Chapter 11: Using Drama across the Curriculum; Chapter 12: Staging a Successful School Production.