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What is the most effective way of allowing teenagers to discover their true potential?

There’s no point in saying that the teenage years are years of uncertainty and turmoil. We all know that.

The issue increasingly is, how can we help teenagers to make the most of their potential without losing valuable time to the emotional upsets of the teenage years?

Of course in some quarters this is not considered to be a schooling issue, but rather is a parental issue. And there is a lot of merit in that argument, for schools can’t do everything.

But students who are able to explore and resolve their own issues are invariably the students who tend to do better academically than might have been expected at the start of their secondary school years.

So what can we do to help?

One particularly interesting route is through encouraging the exploration of character analyses and interpretations via drama. In this way teenagers not only exceed their own expectations, but they can often reveal a talent and insight which neither they, nor those around them, ever knew that they had.

Of course, many students are reluctant to get involved in theatre games and improvisations, but through the use of the right approach and the right materials it turns out to be possible to get everyone involved.

As a result, the benefit to themselves, their families and indeed the school, can be enormous.

It is with this thought in mind that The Tip of the Iceberg has been produced, a book which takes teenagers on the journey to unlock their true potential.

Each chapter of the book provides a one hour lesson, and each lesson is designed so that it can be used either as a lesson that supplements an existing syllabus or as a part of an entire syllabus that spans a year and ends in a performance.

The lessons can be used to complement any GCSE syllabus and as a foundation for A level Drama or Theatre Studies. It also fits with Text and Performance within the International Baccalaureate.

The book is supplied on CD with a printed version, so that copies of the text can be shared within the department and relevant extracts made available to the students as they work on the projects.

It can also be bought as a download at a reduced price.

You can see some sample pages at http://www.pdf.firstandbest.co.uk/drama/T1791.pdf

Publisher’s reference: T1791EMN ISBN: 978 1 86083 870 5

Prices

  • Photocopiable book plus CD £24.95 plus £3.95 delivery
  • Download £19.95

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You can purchase the report… please quote the order ref: T1791EMN