STAGEiT! Shakespeare Theater Making Professional Development Guide for Teachers Grades 5-8 (Paperback)

In or out of school, literacy rich STAGEiT makes play making educational and fun. This Guide is part of a series that, when combined with other titles in the series, has the essential tools you need to stage a forty-minute play. Shakespeare Basics, Theater Lesson Plans, The Rehearsal Process, The Culminating Performance, and Reflection and Inquiry are among topics of the Professional Development Guide. How to note stage movement is extensively described.Written by a leader in arts education, this Guide is for teachers, homeschoolers, teaching artists, and other educators of children ages 10-13 who want to do a forty-minute Shakespeare play. Intended as a companion to Acting Tools for Students and Directing Tools for Teachers available separately in the STAGEiT series, the Guide focuses on four of the most popular plays for the classroom. It enables educators to build their own theater making skills prior to and while engaging students in theirs and is ideally suited for educators with little to no theater experience.This Guide, and all of the titles in the STAGEiT series, are a synthesis of field-tested tools, principles, and practices of a New York City based nonprofit organization that partnered with public schools and reached over 40,000 students across a sixteen year period. It is the most comprehensive and developmentally appropriate material on the market for teachers who want to stage the greatest plays in the English language with their students.If resources for drama instruction are scarce but you have a strong will do do a school play, then STAGEiT is for you It is offered as a low-cost solution where collaboration with a teaching artist may be out of the question.For more information about this and other STAGEiT resources including free downloads, please visit: www.stageitshakespeare.com.