Assessing Theatre Students

This is an interesting topic. We are doing a monologue unit and their final assessment is the preformance of their monologues. It is hard because we have had little assignments aiding the students overall performance and many of them have not done those assignments. Its hard because we had 1 person turn in a paper we assignmed but she was the only one. Do we just discontinue the assignment because it wasnt clear, or do we give everyone a zero. We have to decide as a group but we untimatly said they need a zero on that assignment. It hopefully will get them to think about it. It is intersteing to with this experience because it is not your classroom you have to work with the teacher because his system may be different and it is hard to think about how you want it to work in their classroom. But it all works out in the end.

We will be going to do our final assessment of their monologues this next friday and we hope that they do a good job with their monologues. We are choosing to assess them on each of the items we discussed in class. Giving them the rubric will hopefully help them to know exactly what to work on to have a great performance. It is also great to see them work on something that they will be using in the future as they get ready to audition for different colleges.