Bring clarity and coherence to your theatre curriculum

You already teach powerful theatre. This course helps you clarify, strengthen and sequence the understanding beneath it. Through practical examples, case studies and ready-to-use frameworks, you will learn how to make conceptual learning work naturally in a middle years drama classroom.

  • Move beyond activity-driven units by helping students recognise the deeper ideas shaping their work so learning transfers across performances and years.

  • Use a clear, practical process to craft conceptual understandings and questions that meaningfully guide planning, teaching and assessment.

  • Transform techniques, practitioners and theatre traditions into vehicles for enduring ideas without sacrificing rigour or studio energy.

  • Develop the language to clearly articulate the value of theatre learning while strengthening student independence and transfer.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to The Power of Concepts for Theatre Teachers

    1. Lesson 1: Theatre Is Already Conceptual

    2. Lesson 2: Skills Are the Foundation, Not the Finish Line

    1. Lesson 1: What a Concept Is (and Isn’t)

    2. Lesson 2: Micro and Macro Concepts in Theatre

    1. Lesson 1: From Concepts to Conceptual Understandings

    2. Lesson 2: Writing Strong Conceptual Understandings

    3. Lesson 3: Generating Powerful Conceptual Questions

    1. Lesson 1: Case Study - Skills and Techniques

    2. Lesson 2: Case Study - Practitioners and Movements

    3. Lesson 3 - Case Study: Traditions and Cultural Contexts

    1. Bringing It All Together

About this course

  • £195.00
  • 12 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content