We offer the following courses for Key Stage 4 teachers, please scroll down for more information:
Active teaching of Shakespeare at KS4
Exploring Shakespeare's language at KS3 - 5Shakespeare Masterclass: Drama and Theatre Pedagogy
Directing Shakespeare with young people: Building an EnsembleConnecting with Shakespeare through Movement and Voice
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Active teaching of Shakespeare at KS4
Friday 5 November, 2010, Waterside Space, Stratford-upon-Avon
Core texts: Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice
Friday 24 June 2011, Waterside Space, Stratford-upon-Avon
Core texts: Macbeth and Julius Caesar
This course will provide you with approaches to enrich students' connection to Shakespeare so they can develop a personal and confident voice in spoken and written work. Inspired by an actor's approach to making interpretive choice about the text, the course will explore key scenes and ideas, and look at how the language works to portray character and mood. The course is designed to support the teaching of Shakespeare in the new GCSE specifications.
'I learned the importance of close reading of the text and understanding about the 'space' around the words and how movement affects delivery.'
Teacher participant in 2009
Cost: £130 non-members (£115 RSC Education Members)
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Exploring Shakespeare's language at KS3 - 5
Friday 25 March 2011, Waterside Space, Stratford-upon-Avon
Core text: Julius Caesar
This course will take you on a deep exploration of Shakespeare's language and use an actors approach to understanding, owning and using text. At the heart of this exploration is how the language drives action and how it informs understanding of character, relationships and the world of the play. It will engage you in a range of techniques to explore imagery, structure, sound and rhetoric that will deepen student's insights and personal responses to the play.
Cost: £130 non-members (£115 RSC Education Members)
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Shakespeare Masterclass: Drama and Theatre Pedagogy
Friday 4 and Saturday 5 February 2011, Waterside Space, Stratford-upon-Avon
Core text: The course will focus on the Shakespeare play being performed on the evening of 4 March 2011 but approaches are transferable to other texts.
Working with, among others, members of the RSC Acting Ensemble, Education Practitioners, Cicely Berry, Director of Voice and Text, Jonothan Neelands, Professor of Drama and Theatre at The University of Warwick, this course will be an in-depth exploration of the teaching and learning of Shakespeare. It is a chance to explore the text from different viewpoints: including through movement, voice, as an actor and also as participants in process drama and rehearsal room practice. This course will give you a rich connection with the text, the interpretive choices of the production and will refresh your practice in the active teaching of Shakespeare.
Cost: £275 non-members (£260 RSC Education Members)
This cost includes a ticket for the evening production on 4 March 2011
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Directing Shakespeare with young people: Building an Ensemble
Friday 4 and Saturday 5 December 2010, London
This course will give you a range of techniques, ideas and creative ways to direct young people to perform Shakespeare. Working with the artistic staff at the heart of the RSC's work it will develop your skills and confidence in the core RSC practice of ensemble approaches to theatre making and the exploration of text. We will work practically to focus on key moments, scenes or speeches and also look at the way that voice and movement adds to the process of bringing them alive. This may suit teachers of Drama and Performing Arts and other teachers looking to extend and challenge their practice.
Cost: £250 non-members (£235 RSC Education Members)
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Connecting with Shakespeare through Movement and Voice
Friday 11 March and Saturday 12 March, London
This course will give you an immersive experience in the movement and voice work that is a key part of our artistic work with actors as they go through the process of owning Shakespeare's language and creating their characters.
Over the course of the two days, you will participate in a physical and vocal journey into Shakespeare's text to refresh your ideas and extend your repertoire of teaching approaches when working with young people. This course will suit teachers of Drama, Performing Arts and English teachers looking to extend and challenge their students.
The course will be led by Struan Leslie, the RSC's Head of Movement and members of the RSC's Voice department who are integral to our rehearsal room and to the ongoing development of the RSC Ensemble.
Cost: £250 non-members (£235 RSC Education Members)
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Accredited Courses
The Shakespeare Institute of Birmingham University in collaboration with the RSC are running a module on Shakespeare in Education which contributes towards an MA/ Post Graduate Diploma from the Institute. It will be an intensive six-day course from April 16 – 21 2011 in Stratford upon Avon including three days on active approaches to teaching Shakespeare.
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For more information, contact Juliet Creese at the Shakespeare Institute on 0121 414 9500 or email j.creese@bham.ac.uk