CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS/NATIONAL STANDARDS
I can’t express fully how much your plays have come to mean to the children and to me. You make doing musicals easy, fun, and best of all, administrators can’t complain when a teacher is using the time to teach information set out in the state standards.
COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS/LIFE SKILLS
Theater is most definitely preparation for the future. As a student now in college told me, ‘I would never have gotten this far if it weren’t for 4th, 5th and 6th grade theater.’ Theater involves reading, problem solving, and even leadership skills (I always have a director’s assistant and stage manager). It involves teamwork, presentation skills, memorization, and following directions. Theater puts so many of things we teach in our classrooms into real, tangible action. Theater matters!
SO EASY FOR NEWCOMERS AND THE MUSICALLY TIMID
be true. Finally, I put on the CD, followed the step by step directions and ended up having the most fun and rewarding experience of my teaching career.