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 […]
Three Interactive Ways to Teach The Play Tom Sawyer To Your Students
Three Interactive Ways to Teach The Play Tom Sawyer To Your Students Today’s post is Three Interactive Ways to Teach Tom Sawyer To Your Students. Several years ago, (for thirteen years) I taught sixth graders an introduction to theater class in a middle school. All the sixth graders–almost 500 of them each year. If you’d like […]
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 […]
My Best Selling Teacherspayteachers Products
My Best Selling Teacherspayteachers Products If you are unfamiliar with Teacherspayteachers, it is an online marketplace for teachers to sell their lessons and units. Similar to Etsy, each seller is an independent contractor. Teacherspayteachers was recently named the #1 online market place for teaching products. Pretty darn cool, I say. One of the greatest parts […]
The Reasons Creativity is More Than Being Different
“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity” – Charles Mingus
Critical Steps in Producing a Play or Musical: Set Design
Critical Steps in Producing a Play or Musical: Set Design Let’s talk about critical steps in producing a play or musical, shall we? I think a powerful, creative, unique set design is vital to a production. Depending upon the production budget (there’s that word again-it’s going to come up […]