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Advice for Practical Examinations

• A drama teacher offers opinions on appropriate ways to approach the GCSE Practical Examination.

• The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 and 10: The Arts, 1999 will be implemented in Ontario secondary schools starting in September 1999 for students in Grade 9 and in September 2000 for students in Grade 10. This document replaces the sections in The Common Curriculum: Policies and Outcomes, Grades 1–9, 1995 that relate to the arts in Grade 9, and the parts of the following curriculum guidelines that relate to Grade 10...

• Introduction: The introduction provides teachers with a statement of the approach to middle years drama that is taken throughout the guide, an explanation of the three components, and a discussion of the elements of theatre form that are basic to the attainment of successful experiences in drama.(Saskatchewan Education Curriculum and Instruction Branch)

ARTSEdge - US State Arts Curriculum Frameworks

• State by state listing of Arts Education frameworks from the USA.

• The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum is the national curriculum statement for the essential learning area of The Arts. A parallel curriculum statement for use in Maori medium education, Nga Toi i roto i te Marautanga o Aotearoa, will be published later this year.

Association for Theatre in Higher Education - THE DIRECTING FORUM

• At present, the bank is a collection of syllabi for courses in stage directing at the college level that have been submitted by members of the Directing Forum of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. These syllabi have been sent in by teachers of directing as a way to share what we do and to promote dialogue about the teaching of directing.

• The Australian Curriculum Studies Association Inc. (ACSA) is a broadly based professional association representing the interests of participants in curriculum work from all levels of institutionalised education.

• From this section you can access the entire curriculum resources that are provided by the British Columbia Ministry of Education. Extensive.

• From this section you can access the entire curriculum resources that are provided by the British Columbia Ministry of Education. Extensive.

• A site with a useful introduction to the theory and practice of teaching drama.

The Center for Arts in the Basic Curriculum

• "The purpose of the Center for Arts in the Basic Curriculum (CABC) is to engage teachers, administrators, and the public in dialogue about the power of the arts to educate all children, and the changes in curriculum, teaching strategies, and classroom structure necessary to access that power."

• A collection of syllabus materials on the following subjects 
• Drama 145: World Drama
• Drama 362: Script Analysis
• Drama 361: Directing I
• Drama 461: Directing II

• This site offers useful information and resources about all Year 11 and 12 courses in Western Australia. Look for the downloadable curriculum documents and current bulletins that you might not get to see at school.   - the Curriculum Council is also the main body overseeing K-12 education in Western Australia - see the Curriculum Framework for the Arts section specifically
• Interstate equivalents -
•   Board of Studies - Victoria
•   Board of Senior Studies - New South Wales
•   Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia (SSABSA)
•   Tasmanian Secondary Assessment Board 

• A collection of achievement standards - basically outcomes - for Drama students - limited in some regards.  Contains a glossary that may be useful.

• These links will take you to my Lower (Elementary), Middle, and Upper (High) School curriculum documents.  These curricula represent the ideal, more than actual practice, but they stand as something to reach for. 

Education-line

• Not quite a curriculum site but this is a terrific database of documents and abstracts that have been generated by teachers and academics around the world.  There are hundreds of really interesting papers here - any researcher would spend some valuable time looking here.

• The Arts Learning Area - Outcome statements and strands.  Every Western Australian Arts educator needs to be intimate with these documents very soon - unless of course your school or system is going to develop its own set of outcomes (This lot cost millions to develop).

Gateway to Educational Materials 

• The Gateway provides the key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources. Browse subject and keyword lists, or search The Gateway. Retrieved records will link directly to the Internet resources they describe - it's that easy!  The Gateway currently contains over 3283 education resources. 

• HSC Course

  • Australian Drama & Theatre
    • Bush and City in Australian Drama
    • Contemporary Australian Theatre
  • Studies in Drama & Theatre
    • Theatre of the Absurd
    • Medieval English Cycle Plays
    • Dario Fo
    • Environmental and Street Theatre
    • Seventeenth Century Comedy
    • Meyerhold
    • American Drama
  • Group Performance
  • Individual Project
    • Critical Analysis: Director's Folio
    • Critical Analysis: Portfolio of Theatre criticism
    • Critical Analysis: Applied Research Project
    • Design: Costume
    • Design: Lighting
    • Design: Promotion and Program
    • Set Design
    • Scriptwriting
    • Video
    • Performance

International Centre for Studies in Drama Education

• Welcome to the International Centre for Studies in Drama in Education web site, part of the Faculty of Education at University of Central England (UCE) in Birmingham. 
• The AIMS of our Centre are: 
• To provide a national and international centre for studies in drama in education 
• To promote research and curriculum development in key areas of drama in education 
• To publish outcomes of such investigations in a form most useful to teachers, advisers/consultants and teacher-educators, both nationally and internationally 
• To offer national and international short courses in drama in education

• A comprehensive course description from Furman University - includes a great range of links to significant practitioners.

• These links will take you to my Lower (Elementary), Middle, and Upper (High) School curriculum documents.  These curricula represent the ideal, more than actual practice, but they stand as something to reach for.  Also includes article  Artist-Centered Evaluation - An Approach to the Objective Grading of Creative Work

LOWER SCHOOL CURRICULUM Click here to see my Lower School (Pre-K through Grade 5) curriculum. This curriculum, the one actually in use at The Haverford School, meets the requirements of the Goals 2000 National Standards for Arts Education, but takes them further.

MIDDLE SCHOOL CURRICULUM Click here to see my Middle School (Grades 6-8) curriculum. This curriculum describes my idea of the ideal Middle School program, and meets or exceeds all requirements of the Goals 2000 National Standards for Arts Education.

UPPER SCHOOL CURRICULUM Click here to see my Upper School (Grades 9-12) curriculum. This curriculum describes my idea of the ideal Upper School program, and meets or exceeds all requirements of the Goals 2000 National Standards for Arts Education.

Lincoln Centre Institute for Arts in Education 

NSW HSC Online - Drama

• Teacher resource materials provided by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training. Check out the "Courses" section - some very good resources.  Also providing previous examinations and sample answers, with examiners commentaries.

• An Australia Council publication on line.

Teaching “Experimental Theater” - With Some Questions about Theatrical Style by Jim Hamilton

• A very interesting article in the online journal "Aesthetics Online"

• This experience was carried out at XXV Aprile Primary School in a suburban district north west Rome, Italy. About 70 schoolchildren in 2nd grade were involved, divided into four groups which alternatively worked on the different steps of the dramatization process

• This page has a range of indicators for achievement at a variety of levels.  Look for the Theatre section.

• Quite a bit of information about the British Theatre Studies Syllabus.

• A nice selection of articles about creating ideas for arts education.  Also available as a PDF document.

Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority - The Arts

• The strands are the major content and process elements of the Arts key learning area. There are two broad strands at levels 1-3, five strands at level 4 and six strands at levels 5-6. At each level the sub strands are Arts practice and Responding to the arts.

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