Teaching Shakespeare
We are offering a new way to help teachers transform the classroom experience of Shakespeare for young people across the world.
Blending our own playful and creative approaches to teaching and learning with University of Warwick's business, teaching and research practices, we are together launching a groundbreaking online professional development platform for teachers.
Teaching Shakespeare offers a specially-created set of online resources offering teachers an active approach to teaching Shakespeare inspired by the RSC's rehearsal room practice.
The online learning platform features podcasts and interviews with internationally renowned artists and directors as well as a range of specialist academics and teachers. Featured artists include:
- RSC Voice Director Cicely Berry
- Actor David Oyelowo (Henry VI for the RSC and recently in Planet of the Apes)
- Directors Rupert Goold, Roxana Silbert, and Michael Boyd
Teachers can choose from two pathways:
- Access to the films and accompanying materials, including the RSC Shakespeare Toolkit for Teachers, as a stand-alone set of resources
- A qualification route combining study and practice, leading to a postgraduate award in the teaching of Shakespeare
Teaching Shakespeare is at www.teachingshakespeare.ac.uk now. Teachers can register from April and the first set of courses and resources will be available in October 2012.
Photo by Nick Spratling shows RSC Education practitioner Rachel Gartside taking part in a film shoot for Teaching Shakespeare. Image © RSC