Professional Development for Theatre Educators & Directors
We will offer your teachers & directors professional development on a various theatre topics. You can evern request a topic.
Coaching the Student Actor
Listening. Reacting. Eye Contact. Key Words. These are the things that most high school actors do not do well. Learn activities, games, and strategies to help young actors bring honesty to their characters and performance.
Teaching Theatre with LOVE & LOGIC
Positive techniques for maintaining calm and effective classrooms:
Today’s theatre educators are faced with a dizzying array of competing demands related to implementing new curricula, student testing and other mandates. At the same time, most are seeing an increasing numbers of students with significant emotional and behavioral problems. Teachers need simple and effective tools that don’t require them to implement still another new and complex “program.” That’s why we at Love and Logic have devoted the last four decades to distilling complex theory into a menu of simple yet effective tools.
Teaching Through Performance: Arts Across the Curriculum
Motivational TED-Style talk about the importance of arts across the curriculum.
Choosing & Cutting the UIL One Act Play
Cutting a full-length play for performance is not an easy task. Learn strategies for cutting your play into a cohesive one-act that tells a complete story.
Design for the UIL One-Act Play
Design for UIL OAP should be no different than designing for your full-length plays. Learn new approaches to the design process and see examples of successful designs.
Curriculum & Instruction for Theatre Teachers
Gain ideas for incorporating writing, math, science, and history into the theatre classroom AND for working with other teachers on your campus to create interdisciplinary projects.
Movement for the Student Actor
Learn tools you can use immediately to improve your students’ acting by teaching them to move effectively. We will explore gestures, archetypes, and focal points as a means of creating a character.
Archetypes for the Actor
Helping students connect the character's archetype to movement.
Cutting a Dialogue to Monologue
Tips for creating monologues that can be acted rather than a monologue that is told.
Coaching the Student Actor
Listening. Reacting. Eye Contact. Key Words. These are the things that most high school actors do not do well. Learn activities, games, and strategies to help young actors bring honesty to their characters and performance.
Teaching Theatre with LOVE & LOGIC
Positive techniques for maintaining calm and effective classrooms:
Today’s theatre educators are faced with a dizzying array of competing demands related to implementing new curricula, student testing and other mandates. At the same time, most are seeing an increasing numbers of students with significant emotional and behavioral problems. Teachers need simple and effective tools that don’t require them to implement still another new and complex “program.” That’s why we at Love and Logic have devoted the last four decades to distilling complex theory into a menu of simple yet effective tools.
Teaching Through Performance: Arts Across the Curriculum
Motivational TED-Style talk about the importance of arts across the curriculum.
Choosing & Cutting the UIL One Act Play
Cutting a full-length play for performance is not an easy task. Learn strategies for cutting your play into a cohesive one-act that tells a complete story.
Design for the UIL One-Act Play
Design for UIL OAP should be no different than designing for your full-length plays. Learn new approaches to the design process and see examples of successful designs.
Curriculum & Instruction for Theatre Teachers
Gain ideas for incorporating writing, math, science, and history into the theatre classroom AND for working with other teachers on your campus to create interdisciplinary projects.
Movement for the Student Actor
Learn tools you can use immediately to improve your students’ acting by teaching them to move effectively. We will explore gestures, archetypes, and focal points as a means of creating a character.
Archetypes for the Actor
Helping students connect the character's archetype to movement.
Cutting a Dialogue to Monologue
Tips for creating monologues that can be acted rather than a monologue that is told.
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