Who Needs Drama?

This engaging and practical book includes numerous exercises and activities as well as a wealth of advice for primary and junior teachers who teach drama and those teachers who want to include drama more broadly across the curriculum.Drama serves a valuable purpose in the educational system. Students not only learn about theatre but also about themselves and others, something which helps prepare them for life.This book will help you as a teacher understand the place of drama in the curriculum, suggest how to integrate drama into other subject areas, provide a large number of lesson plans and ideas for drama activities, and, in general, show how valuable a drama program can be.The book also includes five plays written by the author that are ideal for staging in the classroom or in front of a larger audience of parents and peers.Key topics covered in the book include: the creative processelements of dramaforms of dramabuilding student confidenceintegrating drama into other subjectscreative and dramatic playdrama gamesacting basicsputting on a playstarting a drama clublesson plans for teaching drama