Teaching
Shakespeare is an
online professional development resource that enables teachers to improve
student understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare’s plays. With more than
100 films featuring modelled lessons and interviews with leading RSC directors,
practitioners and academics, it provides teachers with the essential skills and
knowledge to develop active, drama-based approaches to teaching Shakespeare in
their classrooms.
Encouraging
students to actively explore Shakespeare’s plays has already brought the text
to life for thousands of youngsters in the UK. The new partnership with OUP
will mean that even greater numbers – initially in the UK, US, Canada, and
Australia, as well as International Schools around the world – will be able to
access these approaches.
Jacqui
O’Hanlon, Director of Education at the RSC, said: “We are delighted that Teaching
Shakespeare is going global. Through our work with thousands of students
and teachers each year we see first-hand the transformative effect that an
active approach to teaching Shakespeare can have. Our collaboration with
Warwick Business School has meant that the RSC’s rehearsal-room inspired
teaching approaches are available online to educators wherever they are in the
world. The partnership with OUP means that we can draw on their wealth of experience
of bringing high quality resources into schools internationally”.
Warwick
Business School Professor Jonothan Neelands added: "We are proud to be
working with Oxford University Press in a new partnership which means our
cutting edge online professional development programme can now reach more
teachers across the world.”
Kate Harris, Managing Director of Oxford Education,
said: “Oxford University Press believes passionately in bringing innovative and authoritative
educational resources to as wide an audience as possible, so we are thrilled to
be working with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Warwick Business School in
presenting Teaching Shakespeare to Teachers of English around the
world.”