The Drama Teacher Academy

Episode 129A: The Drama Teacher Academy What is the Drama Teacher Academy? Who is DTA for? Why should you join? Plus! A sneak peek into one of our courses. Show Notes * The Drama Teacher Academy * Steven Stack Play Page Episode Transcript Welcome to TFP – The Theatrefolk Podcast – the place to be for Drama teachers, Drama students, and theatre educators everywhere. I’m Lindsay Price, resident playwright for Theatrefolk. Hello! I hope you're well. Thanks for listening. Okay. We’ve got another bonus podcast for you. “It’s a bonus! It’s a bonus! It’s time to give you a bonus!” So, this is Episode 129A and you can find any links from this podcast in the show notes at theatrefolk.com/episode129a. Now, the reason for this bonus podcast is to let you know, the podcast listener, that [trumpet sound] we’ve opened the doors again to the Drama Teacher Academy. What is the Drama Teacher Academy? You might be asking. The DTA is a professional development membership site just for Drama teachers and Drama educators. It offers workshops on demand, PD when you want, at the pace you want, and what you want. What I mean by that is that you don’t have to search out professional development in your area. You don’t have to fit a workshop into your busy schedule. You don’t have to worry that the workshop leader is going to spend all their time talking about themselves or rush through an exercise or give you no exercises. The aim of every course in the Drama Teacher Academy is to give you something – not just to learn but something that you can take into your classroom to use or teach. A workshop on mask? That’s fine. A workshop on how to teach mask to forty high school students is awesome! Wouldn’t you love to learn an exercise tonight and teach it tomorrow? Download a lesson plan and be able to use it immediately? Here at the Theatrefolk Global Headquarters, we’ve been operating the Drama Teacher Academy for nine months now and it’s been amazing. We flung open the doors in August. We weren’t sure what was going to happen but we knew what we wanted to do. We knew we wanted to help and we wanted to provide you, provide Drama teachers with a particular kind of resource, and we love hearing how the resources in DTA have helped teachers, have motivated teachers, inspired teachers. There is nothing that makes me happier when someone comes up to us at a conference and says, “This was my first year. You saved my life.” You know, it just makes me tingle. It’s just great. We also love hearing from folks who have questions, who want clarification, who want us to explore different avenues because, if there are questions, that means we have areas that we can change and grow. If we change and grow, we can only get better. So, we’re in a place now where we can leave the doors open to the Drama Teacher Academy. We can leave them open permanently. We’re not closing our doors anymore so you can join at any time. You know, if you’re thinking about the summer months and you want to take some course; if maybe now is not the time but you’re going to bookmark it and do it later, it’s all good. But I’ve got to tell you, now is the time to join DTA. The time to join is neigh. Like, right neigh, and let me tell you why. So, we have a limited time sign-up offer where you can join the Drama Teacher Academy and your first month is a dollar. Let me say that again. You can join the Drama Teacher Academy and your first month is a dollar.