Additional Resources

Related Video Library Programs
Watch these programs for more information on ideas explored in “Teaching Theatre”:

• Expanding the Role of the Arts Specialist
• Teaching Dance
• Teaching Music
• Teaching Visual Art
• Developing an Arts-Based Unit
• Bringing Artists to Your Community
• Students Create a Multi-Arts Performance

Web Resources

• National Standards for Arts Education
• State Standards for the Arts
• American Alliance for Theatre and Education
• National Art Education Association
• Resources for Teaching Drama in the Traditional Classroom

  Recommended by Amanda Newberry:

  • John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Arts Education Resources
  • Ibiblio, The Public’s Library and Digital Archive
  • World Wide Arts Resources: Web Arts Gateway

  Recommended by George E. Jackson, III:

  • Encarta Schoolhouse
  • Visual Arts and the Harlem Renaissance

  For Information on Paul Laurence Dunbar:

  • Paul Laurence Dunbar Web Site

  For Information on the Harlem Renaissance:

  • Poetry Exhibits

Print Resources

• Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques (Drama and Performance Studies), Third Edition, by Viola Spolin, Paul Sills (Editor)
• Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher’s Handbook, by Viola Spolin
• Dorothy Heathcote: Drama as a Learning Medium, by Betty Jean Wagner