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Direct linkThalia R. Goldstein – Teachers College Press, 2024
Discover the cognitive, social, emotional, and other psychological benefits of learning how to act and perform. This book looks behind the curtain of theatre education to see how thinking on stage happens in real secondary classrooms. Reporting on the first large scale systematic qualitative analyses of acting classes for adolescents, the author…
Descriptors: Drama Education, Cognitive Processes, Social Influences, Psychological Patterns
Spilde, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The need for improved mathematics education in many of America's schools that serve students from low income households has been extensively documented. This practical action research study, set in a suburban Title I school with a primarily Hispanic, non-native English speaking population, is designed to explore the effects of the progression…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students, Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedWolk, Susan – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
The purpose of this article is to provide teachers, tutors and parents with an effective and enjoyable approach to practicing reading fluency, increasing comprehension and encouraging the joy of reading, based on the theories and methods of Sally L. Smith. This method can be applied and adapted to individual student's needs. Sally Smith, the…
Descriptors: Laboratory Schools, Reading Fluency, Learning Disabilities, Teaching Methods
Download full textBrown, Victoria – 1998
This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of "Borrowed Black: A Labrador Fantasy," by the Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia. The guide, called a "Cuesheet," contains seven reproducible activity sheets for use in class, addressing: (1) The Story (orienting students to the…
Descriptors: Acting, Class Activities, Cultural Activities, Elementary Secondary Education
Borchardt, Donald A. – 1988
Thinking skills and performance skills are compatible, and actors and directors should learn them both. If there are to be advances in performing arts there must be a clearer understanding of the processes of thinking and the practices of performing. Efforts to define thinking skills have tended to categorize the skills into four camps: critical…
Descriptors: Acting, Characterization, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
Crystal, Josie – Elem Sch J, 1969
Descriptors: Acting, Black Youth, Class Activities, Disadvantaged Youth
Miller, Marsha Lee – 1986
A discussion of the use of drama in the foreign language classroom looks at the three common ways it is used: (1) the dramatic teacher, or methods in which the teacher's dramatic behavior involves the students in interesting communicative situations; (2) creative drama, in which activities focus on the students' involvement in spontaneous dramatic…
Descriptors: Acting, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Creative Dramatics
