Author: Rick Burt

Assessment in Drama, Teaching and Learning in Drama

5 high impact and easy ways to speed up marking. 

There has been so much said recently on Twitter about marking and feedback mostly because Ofsted recently said that “there is remarkably little high quality, relevant research evidence to suggest that detailed or extensive marking has any significant impact on pupils’ learning” in a myth busting document published at the end of November. Marking has always been a contentious discussion in the 15 years I’ve been teaching … Continue reading 5 high impact and easy ways to speed up marking. 

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Drama Teachers Toolkit, Practitioners and Genres

10 Fundamental Key Terminology for Greek Theatre

Protagonist: The leading character in a story Antagonist: The leading villain of a story Tragedy: A play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character Comedy: A play characterized by its humorous or satirical tone and its depiction of amusing people or incidents, in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity. In Greek Theatre Comedy … Continue reading 10 Fundamental Key Terminology for Greek Theatre

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Drama Teachers Toolkit

20 Facts About Greek Theatre

Image: http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/actors.jpg The Ancient Greek drama, is a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece from c. 700 BC. Athens Drama Festival originated from the Great Dionysia, a festival where people would take part in performances that explored great issues in their society. The earliest tragedy that survives, is Aeschylus Persai, dates from 472 The festivals were attended by all Athenian citizens (women as well … Continue reading 20 Facts About Greek Theatre

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Drama Teachers Toolkit, Plays and Playwrights

Two by Jim Cartwright

This was a play I was introduced to at a teacher conference several years ago by someone who said it was a brilliant GCSE text. They said it was brilliant, that it had revolutionised their approach to text based performances and had got excellent marks for it. To be honest it was the last bit about excellent marks that got me interested it in! It … Continue reading Two by Jim Cartwright

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Curriculum, Teaching and Learning in Drama

Knowledge Based Curriculum: Finding the balance

Returning to the idea finding a balance within the curriculum, I think that there needs to be a balance between knowledge and skills and I think that my previous schemes of work have probably been too focused on skills. There is no doubt in my mind that with the content requirements of the new GCSEs being so high, an increased knowledge of key terminology, concepts and … Continue reading Knowledge Based Curriculum: Finding the balance

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