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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 (28)
  • High School/Secondary (44)
  • Middle School/Secondary (46)
  • Upper Elementary/Primary (46)

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 (1)
  • Rituals to Begin and End (7)
  • Text-Based/Visual Dialogue (4)

Image Work

  • Body as Image (1)
  • Images in Action (3)
  • Object as Image (6)

Role Work

  • Creating Context and Subtext (6)
  • Performing Character (1)
  • Performing with a Dramatic Dilemma (3)

Theatre Game as Metaphor

  • Conflict, Power & Problem Solving (4)
  • Ensemble, Energy & Focus (12)
  • Setting, Story & Character (3)

Content Area

  • Art (32)
  • (-) English Language Arts (47)
  • Health/Social Emotional (39)
  • Math (28)
  • Multilingual Learning (34)
  • Science (31)
  • Social Studies (40)

Teaching Strategies

  • (-) English Language Arts
  • (-) Limited Space
  • (-) Room for a Circle

Displaying 47 Teaching Strategies

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

3

3-D Models

A

Artifacts

B

Bippity Bippity Bop
Buzz

C

Check In
Circle Dash

G

Gift Giving
Great Game of Power
Group Counting
Guided Imagery

H

Heads Up
Heartbeat Ball

I

Invisible Balls
It Made Me Think
In The Manner of the Adverb

K

Keeper of the Keys
Knots

M

Machine

O

Objects of Character
Object Metaphor
One-Word/ Phrase Storytelling

P

Pass the Picture
Perspective Web

R

Recipe for Me
Role On The Wall

S

Snowball
Soundscapes
Statues
Story of My Name

T

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

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

V

Visual Dramaturgy/Collective Drawing
Visual Mapping
Voices in the Head
Vote from Your Seat

W

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