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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 (31)
  • High School/Secondary (56)
  • Middle School/Secondary (60)
  • Upper Elementary/Primary (61)

Space Needed

  • Large Space (6)
  • Limited Space (23)
  • (-) Open Area (37)
  • (-) Room for a Circle (30)
  • Room for a Standing Line (3)

Activating Dialogue

  • Embodied Dialogue (3)
  • Rituals to Begin and End (7)
  • Text-Based/Visual Dialogue (5)

Image Work

  • Body as Image (4)
  • Images in Action (6)
  • Object as Image (3)

Role Work

  • Creating Context and Subtext (3)
  • Performing Character (2)
  • Performing with a Dramatic Dilemma (4)

Theatre Game as Metaphor

  • Conflict, Power & Problem Solving (9)
  • Ensemble, Energy & Focus (17)
  • Setting, Story & Character (3)

Content Area

  • Art (42)
  • (-) English Language Arts (62)
  • Health/Social Emotional (60)
  • Math (45)
  • Multilingual Learning (51)
  • Science (52)
  • Social Studies (58)

Teaching Strategies

  • (-) English Language Arts
  • (-) Open Area
  • (-) Room for a Circle

Displaying 62 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

B

Bippity Bippity Bop
Buzz

C

Circle Dash
Columbian Hypnosis
Complete the Image
Connecting Images
Constellations
Cover the Space
Crumbling

D

Data Processing
Defender

E

Exploding Atom
Exploration/Adventure

F

Four Corners
Frozen Picture/Stage Picture
Fruit Bowl

G

Give and Take
Great Game of Power
Group Counting
Group Mural
Group/String Shapes

H

Heads Up
Heartbeat Ball

I

Invisible Balls
Islands
It Made Me Think

K

Keeper of the Keys
Knots

M

Machine
Mirrors

N

Narrative Pantomime
New York, NY

O

Objects of Character
Object Metaphor
Obstacle Course
One-Word/ Phrase Storytelling

P

Paired/Group Improv
Perspective Web
Poster Dialogue
Public Service Announcement
Punctuation to Punctuation (P2P)

R

Real and Ideal Images
Recipe for Me

S

Sculptor/Clay
Show Us
Snowball

T

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

Telephone
Three Ball Toss
Touchstones
Tour of a Space
Town Hall Meeting
Travel/Time Machine
Trust Walk
Truth About Me

V

Visual Mapping

W

What's The Story
Who Started the Motion?
Words of Wisdom
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kathryndawson@mail.utexas.edu

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