The Basics of Theatre Teaching at The U
This is the range of grade levels the BFA Theatre Teaching licensure program prepares you to teach.
What is K–12?
Fellowship and scholarship applications are due in this semester.
What is spring?
This annual Utah event brings high school theatre students and their teachers together for workshops, performances, and competition.
What is the Utah Theatre Association Conference?
This spring Youth Theatre will premiere a new musical inspired by The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
What is The Twelve?
When sending an email, this is how you should address a principal or administrator you’ve never met:
What is “Dear Mr. ___”or “Dear Principal _____”?
This is where your professors will post announcements and reminders about teaching opportunities and other events.
What is the Theatre Teaching News Canvas page?
TTSC has elections for these six positions.
What are president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, social media committee chair, and prospective student committee chair?
This Utah organization connects theatre teachers and theatre education students from across the state.
What is UACTT, the Utah Advisory Council of Theatre Teachers?
You would go here if you want a job teaching for the Youth Theatre.
What is youththeatre.utah.edu?
This document should change every time you apply for a different theatre teaching job.
What is your résumé or cover letter?
Most Theatre Teaching Classes are taught this often.
This event is the only pre-service educator conference in the state (and it takes place at the U!).
What is ArtsLink?
This national organization connects theatre educators, teaching artists, artists, and scholars working in theatre with and for young people.
What is AATE, The American Alliance for Theatre & Education?
Youth Theatre serves young people from elementary school through this grade level.
What is 12th grade?
Future theatre teachers should start building this collection of lesson plans, production photos, teaching artifacts, reflections, and student work before they graduate.
What is a teaching portfolio?
You must maintain this GPA to be accepted into student teaching.
What is 3.0?
The arts education fellowship that allows you to gain real teaching experience in an elementary school is named after this woman.
Who is Beverly Taylor Sorenson?
This Youth Theatre program gives high school students advanced training and opportunities such as the Utah Shakespeare Competition, the Musical Theatre Competition of America, and performance projects.
What is Conservatory?
One of the smartest things you can begin building before student teaching is a network of these people who can help you find jobs, answer questions, recommend you, and support your career.
Who are theatre educators/mentors/professional colleagues?
UITE is the acronym for this office that oversees teacher licensure at the U.
What is the Urban Institute for Teacher Education?
ArtsBridge is a program where juniors and seniors can apply to do this.
What is teach interdisciplinary visual and performing arts workshops in public schools around the Salt Lake Valley?
In addition to teaching classes, Theatre Teaching students can gain paid experience at YTU doing jobs like these.
What are directing, choreographing, music directing, or costume designing, prop master, stage management? (Multiple answers accepted)
You have been asked to teach 32 seventh graders theatre at 8:15 a.m. Your carefully planned activity is bombing. This is the professional skill you now need most.
What is flexibility?