How to Teach a Play (to Playwrights)

Early bird: $250 | Regular: $300

Sundays

Starts June 19, 2022

Maximum students:  5

Six-Week Online Course

Time

Atlantic Time: 8pm-10pm

Eastern Time: 7pm-9pm

Central Time: 6pm-8pm

Mountain Daylight Time: 5pm-7pm

Mountain Standard Time/Pacific Time: 4pm-6pm

Summary

It takes one set of skills to write plays; it takes a whole other skill set to teach them.

This course will provide playwrights with techniques that you can use when teaching someone else’s play to your students. You’ll get to present your own lesson (where you’ll teach a play in class) and receive feedback on what worked about your instruction, along with suggestions for how to enhance your lesson plan.

Not only will you learn about a variety of methods for teaching plays; you will also discover new plays to include on your next course syllabus!

The class will be taught by playwright and PhD candidate (University of Missouri) Andrew Black.

Requirements for this Class

Students should be in a position where they would be likely to teach a playwriting class or workshop and have an interest in developing techniques for working with model texts as part of the teaching process.

Expectations for this Class

Students will be expected to “teach” a play in one of the class sessions (approximately a one-hour lesson) and then receive feedback.  Each week will feature a new play, so participants will need to plan to read or experience a new play each week over the life of the class and invest time in developing a lesson plan for the play they will teach.

After Completion of Class

Students will:

· Be able to list a variety of principles for application when using a play as teaching aid in a playwriting class;

· Have had the experience of teaching a play to others and receiving feedback;

· Have had the experience of seeing a wide range of teaching styles and strategies for teaching a play;

· Have been exposed to six diverse plays and seen how they might be used to teach concepts for playwriting.