Professional readings
Jumplinks:
Drama
Ako - Senior Secondary Teaching and Learning Guides for the Arts
Examples of ako in arts classrooms. Ako involves reciprocal shared learning in the classroom and beyond.
Engaging Audiences
How can arts organizations build their audiences even in tough times? This report on a 2009 Wallace conference describes how some groups are persevering.
Evaluation in the Arts is Sheer Madness
Arts educators are either continually evaluating or they believe the important outcomes of their teaching defy systematic assessment. These and other assessment issues are raised as a means of initiating professional dialogue in contemporary arts assessment and the demands being placed upon the arts.
Find Out About Theatre - Stage Door
This site contains information on all aspects of the theatre: what makes a space a stage technical requirements for a dance floor types of backstage the Green Room people connected with the theatre (director lighting technician etc) sections of the stage.
HOD Handbook - Secondary Drama
This site provides information to assist drama HODs with programme planning assessment productions resources and departmental policy and responsibilities. There are links to relevant sites including information on NCEA.
Home of Poi
A website which has some interesting information about poi to supplement what might be gained from other resources. Check out the links as well. Suitable for primary and/or secondary programmes.
Manaakitanga - Senior Secondary Teaching and Learning Guides for the Arts
Examples of manaakitanga in arts classrooms. Mannaakitanga is about values of integrity trust sincerity and equity. Through manaakitanga the teacher and fellow students recognise and affirm the identity of each student in open and trusting relationships.
Mantle of the Expert
The site will be of relevance to teachers who might want to subscribe for news updates and information about cluster groups and workshops in the approach.
Mantle of the Expert Articles
This site has many interesting papers on Drama and the Mantle of the Expert. All articles are available as PDF files.
Musicals
This large site covers general history of musicals dance in musicals how to put on a musical and much more.
New Zealanders and the arts 2014 - Attitudes, attendance and participation in 2014
Creative New Zealand have recently published their findings after a three-year study looking at our attendance, attitudes and participation in the Arts. This three-yearly research began in 2005 and was repeated in 2008, 2011 and 2014. It delivers on-going information to the arts sector about New Zealanders’ level of involvement in, and attitudes towards, the arts.
Performing Arts Facilities in Schools: Year 1-8 Music Facilities
This section of the Performing Arts Facilities in Schools website discusses equipment and spaces needed for music teaching in years 1-8. Includes a look at performance spaces facilities that make teaching music easier for generalist teachers and specialist teaching spaces.
Performing Arts Facilities in Schools: Years 9-13 Drama Programme Needs
This section of the Performing Facilities in Schools website looks at the needs to consider when planning facilities for secondary school drama programmes. Includes basic requirements for drama teaching and information for schools developing comprehensive drama suites.
Promoting Creativity in Teaching Drama
This is written by Anna Lehtonen, Miia Kaasinen, Mirja Karjalainen-Vakeva and Tapio Toivanen for the Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki, Finland, the article provides an insightful appraisal from the widely-acknowledged and celebrated Finnish education system about the concepts of creativity and creative teaching (teaching creatively) in the drama education. The writers give some critique and recommendations around the importance of three key features of creative teaching in drama - improvisation, presence and student participation as lenses/considerations which can increase creativity in the drama classroom.
Success for Boys
This New Zealand Ministry of Education website is intended to help teachers build on existing practice to create opportunities for all boys to succeed.
Theatre of the Oppressed
A website that briefly looks at Augusto Boal and his work in Theatre of the Oppressed. It outlines techniques used in the work.
Theatreview
This site is a comprehensive and well organised collection of reviews of New Zealand theatre productions from the media that can be accessed by play title and go back a number of years. It is especially useful to NCEA students who are preparing answers on live production viewing for the external standards. It gives easy access access to what professional reviewers have said about plays the students have been to.
Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners
Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners is a new resource explaining the progression of the competencies teachers need to develop so they can help Māori learners achieve educationally as Māori. Tātaiako has been developed to help all educators think about what it takes to successfully teach Māori learners. It provides a guide to the development of cultural competence for teachers themselves for their employers and for Initial Teacher Education providers and providers of on-going teacher professional development.
Western Social Dance
This site is for teacher reference. It gives instructions and clips on a variety of historical western social dances from the late middle ages through to the beginning of the twentieth century. It includes dances such as the Galliard and the Pavane. It would be useful for dance teachers music teachers and for drama teachers who want to include dance in period productions.
Where are the Margot Fonteyns? - Safe Touch in Dance
Jeffery Taylor former dancer turned dance critic says PC attitudes towards touching children are ruining British ballet. Pertinent to Drama and Music instrumental and vocal tuition as well.
General
Are you a Visual thinker?
Changing Assessment : How four simple words can solve education’s biggest problem
A TED talk by Mark Barnes discussing approaches to assessment and how to include the student voice in a ‘beautiful conversation’.
Do you have a wandering mind?
How Colour Blindness Might Affect an Art Student
New Zealanders and the arts 2014 - Attitudes, attendance and participation in 2014
Creative New Zealand have recently published their findings after a three-year study looking at our attendance, attitudes and participation in the Arts. This three-yearly research began in 2005 and was repeated in 2008, 2011 and 2014. It delivers on-going information to the arts sector about New Zealanders’ level of involvement in, and attitudes towards, the arts.
Teacher Toolkit - 5 Minute Wellbeing Plan
Devised for 'guilty teachers' to manage work/life balance.
Teacher Toolkit - 5 Miunute Workload Plan
Visual Thinking Improves Writing
Encouraging writing through 'life journals' comic strips and drawing.
Why do we keep creative people out of leadership roles?
Creatives as leaders - short article by David Burkus.
Why Med Schools are Requiring Art Classes
An article about the relationship between the arts, clinical observation and maintaining empathy in the medical profession.