Kristy #3

Having an idea that teaching with a text means such a wide variety of things other than just books and scripts really helps open up a world of opportunity to teachers. Because there are so many texts to explore and appreciate- especially in the theatre there are endless possibilities to what may be taught and created in the classroom. The Utah Core Curriculum and National Theatre Standards, gives us as teachers direction and focus in this world of limitless possibilities. I have had teachers in the past who, seemingly to me, did not use the curriculum standards to center their classroom. While these classes were sometimes effective and provided for a good learning environment they were not nearly as effective as those teachers that I have had that followed the standards and had direct purpose and reason to the things that were happening in class every day. And of course I want to be a more successful teacher- not just good sometimes.