Creative Dramatics Lessons That Kids Love
Creative Dramatics Lessons That Kids Love Hello! Today, I wanted to blog about Creative Dramatics Lessons That Kids Love. You may not know me or be familiar with my work. I’m Deborah Baldwin (but my friends call me Deb.) I am a recently retired award-winning drama teacher of thirty-eight years. In that time, I directed […]
How to Use a Hybrid Lesson in Your Drama Classroom Tomorrow
How to Use a Hybrid Lesson in Your Drama Classroom Tomorrow I’m a creative and imaginative person. If you follow my blog, you’ll know that when I was ten years old I decided I would direct Mary Poppins in my backyard and have my father hire a helicopter to fly me into the yard near […]
Middle School Drama Lessons from a Veteran Drama Teacher
Middle School Drama Lessons from a Veteran Drama Teacher Hello! You may not know me or be familiar with my work. I’m Deborah Baldwin (but my friends call me Deb.) I am a recently retired award winning drama teacher of thirty-eight years. In that time, I directed over 300 plays and musicals with students and […]
What is Talk like a Pirate Day?
Today, I’d like to share about the question, What is Talk Like a Pirate day?” Simply put, it’s a non-official day where people talk like pirates. It’s just fun! Here is the origin: Talk Like a Pirate Day is the brainchild (if that’s the right word) of two friends, John Baur and Mark Summers, who […]
Fairy Tale Lessons for Drama Class
Fairy Tale Lessons for Drama Class About fifteen years ago, I taught at Smithton Middle School in Columbia, Missouri. I thought I’d probably end up teaching in high school, instead I taught in a middle school–a large one at that! It was a great experience. Every five and a half weeks, seventy-five sixth graders would […]
The Reasons to Teach Drama Class with Unique Lessons
The Reasons to Teach Drama Class with Unique Lessons For thirteen years of my thirty-eight years of teaching, I taught a pre-elective drama class to four hundred sixth graders each year. Today, I want to discuss the reasons to teach drama class with unique lessons. I have two things to admit. Number One: I liked […]