Examples of Theatre Arts-related Careers
(View Complete Item Description)This document provides examples of careers in and related to Theatre Arts.
Material Type: Reading
All resources in VDOE Theatre
Digital Learning Integration Strategy: Student-Generated Videos
(View Complete Item Description)Video clips of performance and/or production techniques covered in class allow students to pause, repeat, and access content on-demand as needed for review, remediation, make-up work, and/or enrichment. Students can assist in the development of technique videos by identifying skills they are strong at demonstrating, recording a short “how-to” video, and adding it to a class library of learning media.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Instructional Plan: Symbolism in Theatre
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson focuses on identifying and discussing the symbolism used in theatrical works. The culmination of the lesson is applying symbolism to a devised performance piece.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Instructional Plan: Digital Media for the Theatre Classroom
(View Complete Item Description)Digital Media is a growing artistic element in Theatre Production. This unit covers common film/media terminology, introduces the career field of the theatrical digital media director, provides instruction on best practices for filming using cell phones or a laptop, introduces editing strategies, and culminates in a creative product by the student.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Instructional Plan: Let's Learn to Improvise
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn basic acting and improvisation skills through different activities. Students will be able to identify and use learned acting techniques during improvisation games through imaginative play.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Instructional Plan: Using Computer Building Games to Teach Set Design Principles
(View Complete Item Description)This unit utilizes readily available gaming technology to teach and reinforce principles of theatrical set design. Students will create an original set design using computer gaming applications involving building tools.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Instructional Plan: Connecting Shakespeare & Hip Hop/Spoken Word Poetry
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn historical facts about William Shakespeare and apply those facts to hip hop music/spoken word. Students will identify contemporary grammar and vocabulary influenced by Shakespeare. Students will create an original spoken word expressional/rap final performance.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Professional Learning: Digital Media Strategies for Theatre Education
(View Complete Item Description)This session will cover ideas and strategies using available technology to enhance the study of theatre in the classroom or through online learning.
Material Type: Lecture
Professional Learning: Studios, Stages, & Students: Real Reasons We Keep Coming Back
(View Complete Item Description)Drawing on walls, banging on pots, dressing up, singing and dancing like everybody’s watching are ways we get ourselves out into the world. In this webinar, we’ll discuss creative thinking and joy in arts learning for students and teachers. We’ll laugh about best intentions, consider best practices in a new age, and celebrate transforming K-12 students into die-hard arts enthusiasts! Clayton Singleton is a Virginia artist, illustrator, author, and arts educator.
Material Type: Lecture
Professional Learning: Interdisciplinary Connections with Theatre Arts
(View Complete Item Description)Participants will gain resources and strategies focused on how the fundamentals of theatre can connect students to their learning, their peers, and themselves. Participants will understand how this connection creates a relevance and rigor that gives their students the skills necessary for success in and out of the classroom. Participants will also understand the role the state standards can play in creating these connections—specifically regarding the Five Cs.
Material Type: Lecture
Professional Learning: Think Like an Artist in the Theatre Classroom
(View Complete Item Description)Artist habits of mind help students reflect on their work by considering learning as a process. These frameworks make thinking visible and, with consistent and pervasive use, develop habitual cultures of thinking in the classroom. Artist habits of mind help students reflect on their creative work by considering learning in the arts as a multilayered process.
Material Type: Lecture
Professional Learning: African Theatre Exploration
(View Complete Item Description)Explore African theatre techniques and learn how to apply critical thinking and communication skills to your classroom through a lesson of African Theatre history and activities.
Material Type: Lecture
Theatre Arts Instruction Observations
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this resource is to support school and division administrators in observations and coaching conversations for theatre arts teachers in Virginia public schools. The strategies listed support effective instruction connected to skills and concepts of the 2020 Theatre Arts Standards of Learning.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Key Features of Effective Lesson and Unit Plans
(View Complete Item Description)This resource is intended to be used by educators, school, and division leadership to evaluate instructional materials for quality. When lesson plans, unit plans, and other instructional activities are from outside sources, division staff and educators may use and adapt these key features to evaluate the materials. In addition, these key features can be used as a guide for locally developed instructional materials that support the curriculum.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Professional Learning: Overview of the 2020 Theatre Arts Standards of Learning for Theatre Arts Teachers
(View Complete Item Description)This webinar provides an overview of the 2020 Theatre Arts Standards of Learning.The purpose of this webinar presentation is to provide background knowledge for understanding the 2020 Theatre Arts Standards of Learning, including the "big picture" and important background information and context of the Standards, and show the instructional and professional learning resources available to support implementation of the Standards in Virginia classrooms.This content was updated in August 2024
Material Type: Lecture
VDOE Fine Arts Update for the 2024-2025 School Year
(View Complete Item Description)In this narrated presentation, the Coordinator of Fine Arts explains updates to the VDOE fine arts program for the start of the 24-25 school year.
Material Type: Lecture
Professional Learning: Fine Arts through the Lens of Multilingual Learners
(View Complete Item Description)Participants will explore resources, learn strategies, and practice instructional routines that elevate language and enhance language acquisition in fine arts classrooms. Participants will explore resources that integrate English language development into the fine arts curriculum, learn strategies to support the development of English, and practice instructional routines that elevate language in fine arts classrooms.
Material Type: Lecture
Fine Arts Career Resource Document
(View Complete Item Description)This document contains a sample list of fine arts careers by discipline, links and resources for exploring fine arts careers, and resources for workbased learning in fine arts courses.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Progression Chart: Theatre Arts Standards of Grades K-5
(View Complete Item Description)This resource demonstrates the 2020 Theatre Arts Standards of Learning for grades K-5 in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Progression Chart: Theatre Arts Standards of Learning Grades 6-8
(View Complete Item Description)This resource demonstrates the 2020 Theatre Arts Standards of Learning for grades 6-8 in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy