The Utah Core Curriculum and the National Theatre Standards are basically an outline of everything a drama teacher should be providing to their students throughout the years in their program. It starts at the basics and moves up to advanced in every topic while explaining exactly what they should be able to do. I think this provides a very useful guideline when designing curriculum because as a teacher I now know where the students should start and finish. I can adjust it as I go according to the students, but at least I have a jumping off point.
Covered in both these sites is basically a list of what all students should be literate in, in terms of theatre. As a teacher I can take the basic idea given and then delve deeper in to the concept. However this outline really helps me as a teacher because it provides a clear list of the different texts my students need to study, and how literate they need to end up. I can then add my own personal texts to supplement what has been provided here.
This also helps because it may talk about a certain text that as a teacher I may not have thought to include or spent a lot of time on. One of those for me was playwriting. I never thought previously about including a unit on playwriting because we didn't do that in my high school program. Consequently I didn't even know they existed in high schools. This is a text and a degree of literacy that I did not know about and was not exposed to until I came to college. These outlines help to expose the teacher to different texts they should be addressing that they didn't realize needed to be addressed. Because of all this the students receive a more rounded theatre education.
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