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Based on our previous discussion of Texts and Literacies, Discuss how the Utah Core Curriculum and the National Theatre Standards might help teachers to address text and literacy issues in their curriculum design.
Alot of the Utah Core Curriculum and the National Theatre Standards address the the different forms of text and literacy. We are expected to teach our students how to look at a production from several different angles and make choices that lead us to creating different texts. Even for those teachers that do not difine text the same why that we do, which is a text as something that comes from the student and creativity, they are helping the students to create them anyway. It also assures that we give the students different ways of experiancing texts.
It is also a wonderful thing to have the standards and things we are expected to teach written down. When we have those things before us on paper it is easier to see if we miss something and how to set up the class lessons in an orderly way that works for us. For example, for me and the way I teach I like to set things up like the way they would be done in real life on a production team. Start with scripts and then directing, a production teams all the way to acting and producing a show. I plan on just having the work more intence depending on the class level. However, when I see the standards layed out before me it helps me not forget to add in any litttle thing that I might accidently skip over because I have not done that specific job, like writing a script. It also helps if students move to a different school because the two schools will be expecting their students to do the same things to pass the drama one class so the second teacher knows that the student is ready for drama two.