STRATEGIES, ASSESSMENT, AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN THEATRE PEDAGOGY.

Catalog description

Open to theatre majors only. Current trends in theatre education will be examined. Topics include effective differentiated instruction, classroom management, strategies for working with diverse learners, and examination of major learning theories and principles of cognitive, social, emotional, physical and aesthetic development. This course will also examine a variety of assessment techniques that are used in a theatre classroom. Assessment tools such as rubrics, rating scales, National Standards, TEKS, STAAR, and TExES will be examined and implemented into lesson planning. Prerequisite: For Theatre Arts majors only. Admission into the College of Education.