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Use the categories below to find a strategy that fits your context and meets your instructional goal.

Age Group

  • (-) Early Elementary/Primary (48)
  • High School/Secondary (83)
  • Middle School/Secondary (87)
  • Upper Elementary/Primary (88)

Space Needed

  • Large Space (3)
  • Limited Space (14)
  • Open Area (19)
  • Room for a Circle (16)
  • Room for a Standing Line (3)

Activating Dialogue

  • Embodied Dialogue (4)
  • Rituals to Begin and End (4)
  • Text-Based/Visual Dialogue (1)

Image Work

  • Body as Image (4)
  • Images in Action (3)
  • Object as Image (2)

Role Work

  • Creating Context and Subtext (4)
  • Performing Character (5)
  • Performing with a Dramatic Dilemma (5)

Theatre Game as Metaphor

  • Conflict, Power & Problem Solving (5)
  • Ensemble, Energy & Focus (12)
  • Setting, Story & Character (3)

Content Area

  • Art (32)
  • (-) English Language Arts (47)
  • (-) Health/Social Emotional (40)
  • Math (27)
  • Multilingual Learning (33)
  • Science (36)
  • Social Studies (43)

Teaching Strategies

  • (-) Early Elementary/Primary
  • (-) English Language Arts
  • (-) Health/Social Emotional

Displaying 48 Teaching Strategies

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | V | W

A

Artifacts

C

Check In
Connecting Images
Conscience Alley
Cross the Room/ Stand Up If
Crumbling

D

Data Processing

E

Exploration/Adventure

F

Four Corners
Fruit Bowl

G

Gift Giving
Group/String Shapes
Guided Imagery

H

Heartbeat Ball
Hot Seating

I

Islands

K

Keeper of the Keys
Knots

M

Machine
Mirrors

N

Narrative Pantomime

O

One-Word/ Phrase Storytelling

P

Paired/Group Improv
People to People
Perspective Web
Public Service Announcement

R

Recipe for Me
Role On The Wall

S

Sculptor/Clay
Show Us
Soundscapes
Statues
Story of My Name

T

This is Not a...
This Setting Needs...
Talk Show/Press Conference 

Telephone
Three Changes
Town Hall Meeting
Travel/Time Machine
Trial/Courtroom
Truth About Me

V

Voices in the Head
Vote from Your Seat
Vote With Your Feet

W

Watercolor Conversations
What's The Story
Who Started the Motion?
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