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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 (34)
  • High School/Secondary (58)
  • Middle School/Secondary (61)
  • Upper Elementary/Primary (59)

Space Needed

  • Large Space (7)
  • Limited Space (18)
  • Open Area (34)
  • (-) Room for a Circle (31)
  • (-) Room for a Standing Line (3)

Activating Dialogue

  • Embodied Dialogue (2)
  • Rituals to Begin and End (2)

Image Work

  • Images in Action (2)
  • Object as Image (1)

Role Work

  • Creating Context and Subtext (1)
  • Performing Character (1)
  • Performing with a Dramatic Dilemma (2)

Theatre Game as Metaphor

  • Conflict, Power & Problem Solving (3)
  • Ensemble, Energy & Focus (6)
  • Setting, Story & Character (3)

Content Area

  • Art (13)
  • English Language Arts (19)
  • Health/Social Emotional (17)
  • Math (9)
  • Multilingual Learning (13)
  • Science (12)
  • Social Studies (15)

Teaching Strategies

  • (-) Early Elementary/Primary
  • (-) Room for a Circle
  • (-) Room for a Standing Line

Displaying 34 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

Conscience Alley
Cross the Room/ Stand Up If

E

Everybody Do

H

Heartbeat Ball

I

Instant Replay

K

Keeper of the Keys
Knots

L

Living Portraits

M

Machine
Machines
My Name Is & I Like To

N

No, No, No...
Name + Adjective + Movement

O

One-Word/ Phrase Storytelling

P

Perspective Web

R

Recipe for Me
Round of Applause

S

Shake Out
Shapes and Levels
Smaug's Jewels
Sound and Movement

T

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

Telephone
Town Hall Meeting
Travel/Time Machine
Truth About Me

V

Vote With Your Feet

W

What's The Story
Who Started the Motion?
Write Your Name

Y

Yee Haw

Z

Zip Zap Zop
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