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How To Teach Drama To Kids
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How To Teach Drama To Kids

Your Step By Step Guide To Teaching Drama To Kids
Created byHowExpert
Last updated 7/2020
English

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  • How To Teach Drama To Kids

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Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 1h 47m total length

  • Introduction4:46

    Develop flexible drama teaching methods for kids and teens, with age-segmented exercises, patient instruction, and on-the-spot demonstrations to keep young groups engaged and inspire a lifelong love of theater.

  • Part 116:59

    Explore movement as stage expression through warm ups, statues, and rhythm-based group exercises using sticks and music to build confidence, timing, and dynamic presence.

  • Part 213:05

    Teach diaphragmatic voice projection, annunciation, and pronunciation through playful warmups and short exercises. Use tossing the ball, the telephone game, tongue twisters, and paired readings to build clear stage speech.

  • Part 315:33

    Engage students with hands-on improvisation drills, warmups, and scene work across age groups to build confidence, quick thinking, and expressive speaking in drama.

  • Part 412:00

    Teach drama through storytelling and characterization, showing characters with voice, gesture, and action from rise to curtain call. Use age-appropriate tales and hands-on exercises with props to create lively performances.

  • Part 58:55

    Explore puppetry through hands-on sock puppets, animal puppets, and marionettes; design, rehearse, and perform short plays with group collaboration, storytelling, and optional video sharing.

  • Part 613:56

    Learn early stage conflict and fight scenes through warmups and choreographed drills, using props like a magic wand and chairs to explore safe stage slaps, punches, and pushes.

  • Part 711:28

    Explore clowning and masks in drama for kids, using noses, finger masks, and nonverbal exercises to create characters; balance serious instruction with age-appropriate group work and scenario scenes.

  • Part 85:21

    Teach kids chorus line choreography with stepping dance, marching, and rhythm using simple props and stretching to build timing, memory, and teamwork for performances.

  • Part 95:31

    Introduce scene work through freeze frames and silent tableau to teach openness and memory across ages, using age-appropriate scenes from diary of Anne Frank and a raisin in the sun.

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  • How To Teach Drama To Kids

Description

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.

About the Expert

With her first on-stage appearance at age 4, her first leading role at age 11 and her professional stage roles culminating primarily in character parts in comedies, and for troupes catering to parties and murder mystery dinner theatres, Julie Johnson decided in 1997 that she would be well-suited to TEACH Drama to others. After graduating with a four-year specialist degree in teaching the Performing Arts, she moved to England to further work in both schools and theater. While mostly teaching high school Theater Arts since then (in three different countries) she has also been a leader of workshops for pre-teens and adults, a guest-speaker at college level, an adjudicator for theatre festivals and a coach and judge for speech and debate competitions. Here, in this guide, she offers many of her tips, games and exercises for teaching three different age groups under 18 years.

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