To Do or Not to Do... Theatre Competitions

To Do or Not to Do... Theatre Competitions

Gai Jones, long time theatre educator, a member of many educational theatre associations, and an advocate of theatre competitions with sound educational theatre values, has developed this resource. Competitions are opportunities for students to succeed. Competitions encourage students to work toward a standard and goals. Evaluation can take the form of both formative and summative assessments. Competitions provide learning beyond the classroom as students are exposed to many types of performances and take part in receiving evaluations.

This resource was created to help drama teachers consider these goals when taking students to competition (or not):
• Celebrating growth and student success.
• Learning how to evaluate judges’ comments.
• Helping students develop strategies for competition stress.
• Providing learning experiences beyond the classroom.