The Drama Teacher's Handbook

Drama teacher Keith Burt shares his experience of curating, creating, and teaching drama curriculum from over 20 years of working in and with secondary schools. In this book, he turns his lifetime’s experience into practical, actionable steps to help you develop a robust, successful, and sustainable drama curriculum that will challenge, inspire, and engage your students.

In this honest, instantly accessible and applicable book, Keith talks about why drama is, and always will be, an academic subject and one worthy of study. He shares with you best practices to help you review your current curriculum and set about establishing a framework from within which you can begin curating and creating your ideal drama curriculum. He guides you on how to organize, design, and realize a courageous, challenging, and coherent drama curriculum.

With this, alongside a complete and immediately useable assessment criteria, over 50 straight to teaching activities, tasks, and free resources, this is a complete practical handbook for teaching knowledge rich drama, which you will use on a day to day basis.

This book will help you understand what your drama curriculum needs, develop and improve your drama curriculum, and help you teach knowledge-rich drama lessons. You will get a new and easy-to-use assessment criteria along with over 50 learning activities you can use straight away. You will also be supported throughout the process with access to over 25 free supporting resources.