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Theatre Arts Education

Goals for Theatre Arts Education K-12

These are in addition to the program goals for Performing Arts Studies

  1. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will have an understanding of the ideas, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings of diverse people in different times throughout history as communicated through literature and theatre.
  2. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will employ techniques for teaching and learning through developmental processes and activity-oriented methods.
  3. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will promote higher level critical and creative thinking skills, problem recognition and problem solving, intuition, examination and implementation of conflict resolution, and the learning of reading, writing, math and other areas of the curriculum.
  4. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will be able to assist in focusing the emotions for controlled use, strengthening the imagination for creative self-expression, disciplining the voice and body for purposeful use, expanding intellectual horizons to include aesthetic awareness, developing self-discipline, and providing a basic understanding and critical appreciation of all the theatre arts.
  5. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will be able to make connections between theatre arts and other art forms, other curriculum areas, dramatic media, and the related use of technology including numbers and data.
  6. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will provide an intense study of what playwrights seek to convey and how this is intensified through theatrical production, thus giving students insights into countless aspects of the diverse and changing world.
  7. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will be able to include the reading, viewing, listening, researching, writing, speaking, preparing to perform, performing, and directing of traditional and experimental theatrical forms, as well as the accompanying aspects of technical production.
  8. The Teacher Education students will be competent in the following areas (refer to the Performing Arts Program for additional information);
    PFA 470 Competency One Creative and Critical Thinking and Artistic Direction
    PFA 471 Competency Two Performance
    PFA 472 Competency Three Arts Management, Leadership and community Development
    PFA 473 Competency Four Technical Theatre
    PFA 474 Competency 5 Cultural and Critical Perspectives
    PFA 475 Competency 6 Academic Review, Personal Reflection and Service