STAGEABILITY DIPLOMA
ADVANCED GRADE IV
GRADE IV - - Exam Entrance Fee £15.50 inclusive of VAT
(Price includes the issue of Certificate and Award Badge)
This Grade takes two terms to complete and is therefore in two Parts.
Student Tutor
As part of the StageAbility development programme, you are now considered experienced
enough to pull on your own training in being able to train others. This exam will provide us
with the opportunity to assess whether you have the ability to teach others and be considered
for the Student Tutor programme.
The student tutor programme is being developed so that senior students can become a part of
our tutoring team. Student Tutors work alongside our professional tutors experiencing the
role played by tutors and long term equipping themselves with the experience needed to tutor
a StageAbility Class. This provision is specifically aimed at those students who are planning
to work within the arts and continue their training at Drama or dance school. Such
experience will provide the student with valuable experience which can be used to secure
future teaching positions, either within the StageAbility Network or elsewhere. It is an
opportunity which will enable you to earn an income to support you during your drama
school training and into the future when you become a full time actor or dancer.
Having completed this grade successfully StageAbility will then consider you for the Student
Tutor Programme which is to commencing in January 2007.
PART ONE
Maximum 100 points
You are to write two 2 hour class plan for junior students which encompasses
the StageAbility Teaching Frame.
Your class plans need to assume that the class has a number of infant students
attending as well as juniors, so for the first hour of each class it is a mixed age
range from five to eleven years old.
If you are intending to use music in your classes you must source these yourself
arrange for them to be put on a CD.
Any part of your class plans which require hand outs or script work must be
produced as if ready for distribution to students.
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The teaching frame illustrates how we develop our teaching modules by
covering the main disciplines of the performing arts. Your two hour class needs
to incorporate at least five elements from the upper frame and at least two of the
elements from the core subject.
You must present your two 2 hour class plans in a 4 ring binder outlining each
of the headings of your plan, giving a breakdown of the each section, why you
have chosen it, what you intend doing with it, and what you hope to have taught
the students by the end of it.
You may, if you wish it, link the two classes together so that you can issue a
very simple piece of homework which your juniors need to compete and return
with for the second class.
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Your classes need to be inventive and full of fun. Your own experiences will
enable you to bring into your classes that games that you have loved to play
over the years but your class plans will be greatly enhanced if you research
Drama Games for yourself and try to find new and original stuff never seen by
the school before. This will demonstrate your ability to use your own initiative
as well as demonstrate your own artistic value.
All StageAbility Tutors bring their own colour and style into their classes, and
whilst we all follow the same basic teaching frame, each tutor offers a unique
contribution to the scheme of things.
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PART TWO
Maximum 100 Points
Having devised your two 2 hour classes, you will be required to attend four
junior classes during a single term.
Two at one school and two at another.
At both schools you will put your class plan in to action, observed by the head
tutor. The two schools chosen for you will offer different opportunities to
demonstrate your class plans – one will be a well established school with a
larger number of students than the second so that we can assess your ability to
work with large as well as smaller groups.
If you need help or advice, please contact the head tutor Gary Sullivan
Phone (01376) 567677
Email gary@stageability.co.uk
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