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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 (17)
  • High School/Secondary (27)
  • Middle School/Secondary (29)
  • Upper Elementary/Primary (29)

Space Needed

  • Large Space (5)
  • Limited Space (18)
  • Open Area (37)
  • (-) Room for a Circle (27)
  • (-) Room for a Standing Line (3)

Activating Dialogue

  • Embodied Dialogue (2)
  • Rituals to Begin and End (5)
  • Text-Based/Visual Dialogue (1)

Image Work

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

Role Work

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

Theatre Game as Metaphor

  • Conflict, Power & Problem Solving (3)
  • Ensemble, Energy & Focus (8)
  • Setting, Story & Character (1)

Content Area

  • Art (23)
  • English Language Arts (33)
  • (-) Health/Social Emotional (30)
  • Math (22)
  • Multilingual Learning (25)
  • Science (23)
  • Social Studies (27)

Teaching Strategies

  • (-) Health/Social Emotional
  • (-) Room for a Circle
  • (-) Room for a Standing Line

Displaying 30 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

C

Circle Dash
Conscience Alley
Cross the Room/ Stand Up If

G

Great Game of Power
Group Counting

H

Heads Up
Heartbeat Ball

I

Invisible Balls
It Made Me Think

K

Keeper of the Keys
Knots

M

Machine

O

Objects of Character
Object Metaphor
One-Word/ Phrase Storytelling

P

Perspective Web

R

Recipe for Me

S

Snowball

T

Talk Show/Press Conference 

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

V

Vote With Your Feet

W

Who Started the Motion?
Words of Wisdom
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