Series: Managing Cover Lessons

Managing Cover Lessons - Drama

Hilary Moor

£38 / 30Pages42FormatPaper-based / ePackPublication dateSep 11
ISBN: Paper-based 978 1 85749 881 3; ePack 978 1 84070 878 3

Save time and ensure the productive use of KS3 lessons

Providing appropriate work for classes in the absence of colleagues remains a significant issue, particularly when supply teachers are difficult to find. In practical subjects like drama, it can be particularly difficult to set purposeful, self-contained activities to make sure that valuable lesson time does not go to waste.

A real must for heads of department

Managing Cover Lessons – Drama offers heads of drama essential ideas and resources that save time and are easily managed. The pack is divided into two main parts. The first provides guidance and materials on managing and administering cover lessons within the department. It includes a clear, simple, well-tried system that requires minimal preparation and completion on documentation, yet is thorough and supportive.

A practical approach to student tasks

The second part offers a carefully compiled set of 30 copiable activities spanning KS3. Each activity:

  • has clear, precise instructions
  • allows students to complete the tasks set in the time available
  • requires minimal preparation and equipment
  • is suitable for non-specialist staff to oversee
  • contributes to the statutory curriculum.

Note that this product is also available as part of the Digital Library for Drama KS3.

Contents

Introduction

Year 7

  • Pantomime
  • The bully
  • Consequences
  • A 'good' Drama student
  • Warm-up activity
  • Show and tell
  • Skellig
  • A stick!
  • Theatre design
  • The Lady of Shalott
    • Year 8
  • Saltmarsh
  • Pantomime
  • Spooky poem
  • Spooky play
  • Emotions
  • Storyboards
  • Drama work
  • TV cookery show
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Elizabethan theatre
    • Year 9
  • Playwright
  • TV celebrity
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Programme
  • Cliff-hangers
  • Arguments!
  • The train journey
  • Drama vocabulary
  • Outcomes
  • Freeze-frame

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