Encouraging both teacher and student imagination and expression, the eighth edition of this classic text helps future teachers integrate drama into the classroom and introduces students to a variety of genres and strategies, including mime, play structure, improvisation, and using drama in the special education curriculum. Unlike other texts, McCaslin focuses on drama as an art form as well as a teaching tool.

I. CREATIVE DRAMA IN THE CLASSROOM.

1. Creative Drama: An Art, a Socializing Activity, and a Way of Learning.
2. Imagination Is the Beginning.
3. Play.
4. Movement and Rhythms.
5. Pantomime: The Next Step.
6. Improvisation: Characters Move and Speak.
7. Puppetry and Mask Making.
8. Dramatic Structure: The Play Takes Shape.
9. Building Plays from Stories.
10. Creating Plays from Other Sources.
11. The Possibilities in Poetry.
12. Speech and Speech-Related Activities.
13. Storytelling.
14. Drama as a Teaching Tool.
15. Creative Drama for the Special Child.

II. PROGRAMS BEYOND THE CLASSROOM.

16. Sharing Work with an Audience.
17. Theatre-in-Education.
18. Playgoing for Appreciation and Learning.
19. Creative Drama in Alternative Spaces.
20. The After-School Drama Program.
21. A Final Word.
Appendix A: National Standards for Theatre Education.
Appendix B: Student Evaluation.
Appendix C: Four Sample Drama Workshops.
Glossary of Some Common Dramatic Terms.
Selected Bibliography.
Credits.
Index