Michael Anderson

This title is a comprehensive guide to drama education, ensuring a solid foundation for supporting effective learning and teaching. Michael Anderson explores the history, practice and research in drama education to create a foundation for effective learning and teaching. Examples of international practice and research support an evidence-based discussion of drama learning and teaching. This title includes topics such as: the foundations of drama learning; planning; knowledge and skills; and, assessment. "MasterClass in Drama" will be essential reading for all studying the teaching and learning of drama on PGCE M Level and Education MEd/MA courses.

A business plan is essential for any business, new or established. But where do you start? What do you need to include? Whether you need to raise finance, get senior management to support your plans, or simply want a roadmap for growth you need a successful business plan. We explain what to put in, what to leave out and how to structure it to be most effective. This book takes you step-by-step through how and why to write a business plan. It uses practical techniques and everyday examples to ensure your business plan gets the results you want; whether it?s start-up funding, strategic insight or a recovery plan. It?s written by expert authors, Michael Anderson & Jane Khedair, of Business Plan Services, in association with London Business School. This books will help you:- Persuade investors to back your business - Convince senior management to support your plans - Avoid common business plan mistakes - Adapt your business plan for different audiences

Digital video and film technologies are transforming classrooms across the world. Teaching the Screen looks beyond the buttons and knobs to explore ways of teaching video and film effectively in secondary classrooms. More and more young people have access to low-cost filming and editing technologies - mobile phones, computers, portable digital - which is changing the experience of digital storytelling. Approaches to classroom teaching and learning need to change too. The authors offer a new pedagogy of film storytelling that draws on research from effective classroom film learning practice. They contextualise screen learning within different educational settings, discuss how teachers can highlight aesthetics in film appreciation and filmmaking, and explore the impact of different technologies. Teaching the Screen is essential reading for educators who want to create engaging learning and teaching activities with screen technologies in secondary English and other subject areas.'A well balanced and comprehensive account of the issues in filmmaking likely to be encountered by English teachers. It lifts engagement beyond the usual procedural knowledge level, to one of active critique.' - Sue Brindley, University of Cambridge'This book has bridged the theoretical and practical without compromising either. It offers a thorough systematic account of theoretical issues and practical techniques in teaching film appreciation and filmmaking.' - Associate Professor George Belliveau, University of British Columbia

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Drama Teaching in English examines the relationship between drama and English in the contemporary secondary classroom and covers the major developments within drama, theatre and English education. It provides pre-service teachers with opportunities to reflect on their own practice and refine it in response to innovations in the field of English and drama teaching. Major changes in drama and performance studies approaches have not always been reflected in English classrooms. In Drama Teaching in English, innovative practices and approaches are explored to show how to understand the dramatic text through action. Subjects which have undergone substantial change in English education such as media, technology, performance and the inclusive classroom, are covered thoroughly and expertly.