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Program Building
A Practical Guide for High School Speech and Drama Teachers
by Toby Heathcotte
Published 2003
Publisher: Mardel Books
ISBN: 0-9640882-6-6

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- Handling Day to Day Activities
- Creating Relationships
- Starting a Speech Team
- Directing the First Show
- Running an Auditorium
- Hosting a Tournament
- Teaching in the Inner City
- Professional Resources

"Program Building is essential reading for every secondary school theatre teacher, especially for those just beginning their careers in the field. Ms. Heathcotte shares her pragmatic, insightful, and signature knowledge about the daily routines of one-person programs. She also generously contributes those little-known, oral-tradition ways-of-working that only veteran insiders possess." Johnny Saldana, Arizona State University

This book won a San Diego Book Award and is used is many university teacher training programs.






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