Drama: The Ball Toss Name Game
This classic game is a great way to break the ice while keeping students active.
The Arts
Drama Game: Guess Who?
Students can learn something interesting about classmates that might have taken all year to discover
Drama: Circle Name Game
A simple way to start creating a sense of community among students is through icebreakers, such as variations of the ‘name game.’
Field Trips: Visual Arts—The Studio
Art exhibits exercise only one of the senses—sight. Students should have the opportunity to use their others senses as well, by...
A Case for the Arts in the Future of Education
If you believe, as I do, that the techniques we use in education should be teaching students things that are most important to them and society, then arts have to be at or ...
Teachers Learn the Two-Step
For students who can’t communicate very well in traditional ways—through written tests, essays, and exercises—dance is one way for them to share feelings.
Body Worlds: Anatomy and Art
As humans we are intricate beings, powerful, yet fragile, but until recently, only medical students have had the privilege of looking at the human body
Teaching Music in the Far East
While in the East, how could I facilitate students learning music when the methods I had developed over the years seemed more suited to students in the West?
Field Trips: Dramatic Arts
An excursion for your next dramatic arts lesson is the perfect opportunity to present students with an experience that is filled with both learning and excitement.